Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
> Could I also mention that if you are going to print unprintable characters
> as a box that you allocate space for that box?  Having a box print over a
> printable character is really a waste and makes no sense.  There are
> perfectly good reasons for including non printable characters in strings,
> there are a number of protocols that use these characters as separators.

Absolutely. Do you have an example where a box is printed over a glyph?

Cheers,
   - Andreas