On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Andrey Larionov <anlarionov at gmail.com>wrote:

> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 01:09, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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.
> If we talking about ranges from 1 to 256 yes, but if characters have
> zero based index, then 256, 257


I was only trying to explain what the meanings were.


> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 01:52, Andrey Larionov <anlarionov at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Sorry for hestiating, but since Unicode is come and Character ranges
> > are enlarged, should we review this hardcodes?
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 01:09, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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