Re: problem with layout in ICU 2.6

Jens Herden <[email protected]> Wed, 2 Feb 2005 09:52:34 +0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.icu.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Eric,

I should have asked earlier, would have saved me a couple of hours of my 
time ;-)

> The defaultCharMapper does not remove the CR, it replaces it w/ a 0xFFFF
> character. Later on, LEFontInstance::mapCharToGlyph() maps the 0xFFFF
> character to a 0xFFFF glyph, also called the "deleted glyph." The char
> to glyph map should have an entry for this glyph.

You are right.

> I seem to recall that one of the patches OO makes to the LayoutEngine
> has to do w/ how deleted glyphs are handled; perhaps this is what's
> causing the problem?

Thanks for this, it helped me a lot. I tried an unpatched version of ICU and 
of course it is working there.
So my backported code is fine :-)

But now I have to find out what is wrong with the patch and who is responsible 
from OpenOffice for this. 

Thanks again

Jens