RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] Text rendering status

["Charles Moir" <CharlesM@xxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:  Martin Wuerthner

> I do not get that for the first character, but here, it 
> sometimes occurs in the middle of text. The rectangle is not 
> an artifact, it is a real zero-width glyph representing a 
> funny Unicode character that is part of the text object - the 
> FreeType font manager is asked for characters like ffe2 
> ("full width not sign") and other special high values, which 
> are not defined in most fonts.

So perhaps the text tool is randomly inserting this strange character
when you type?  I would have thought if it were doing this on Windows
you'd also see the same rectangle, which generally appears when it can't
find the character outline I thought.