[ANN] Fix invisible characters in fonts
stéphane ducasse
ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sat Apr 8 10:01:56 UTC 2006
Hi bert
I would like to add that in 3.9. Do you think that this is wise/wished?
Because indeed I have always problem with the students with that.
Stef
> Hi all,
>
> from time to time we get invisible characters into our source code,
> leading to strange compiler errors. It's really hard to spot those
> blank one-pixel-wide glyphs.
>
> Truetype fonts have a hollow rectangle to indicate missing glyphs.
> This package patches the StrikeFonts to show a similar hollow
> rectangle for any non-whitespace character that had a blank glyph:
>
> http://source.impara.de/underscore/FixInvisible-bf.1.mcz
>
> Tested in 3.8 and 3.9, should work in virtually any version.
>
> See attached image for the result.
>
> - Bert -
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