On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Andrey Larionov <anlarionov at gmail.com>wrote:

> Investigating reasons of fail FontTest tests i found bug in
> MultiCompositionScaner (or it maybe some related class). Looks like
> what Character value: 257 had a special meaning in squeak.


257 was the code THE scan characters primitive answered when it reached the
end of the input string.
258 was the code it returned when the next character to be output would have
crOssed over the right-hand margin.

Alas none of this is documented in the blue book.  You have to extract it
from e.g. the Xerox V2.0 sources.

Here's the defines from an ancient VM of mine:

/* TextConstants pool variables initialised in Text */

#define CrossedX 258
#define EndOfRun 257



> If not use
> StrikeFont everything is well, but if you choose FreeType font the
> doing something
> (Character value: 257) asString asTextMorph openInWorld
> creates an endles loop in composer. It founds character falls in
> crossedX method (this character is stopCondition) and then remove
> character from composition and starts again.
>
>
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