[FOP-2324] [PATCH] Character not found in AFP font but no warning is issued

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.5
• Component/s: font/unqualified
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Seifeddine Dridi
• Created: 04/Dec/13 13:38
• Updated: 16/May/18 09:42

Description

I noticed that the AFP font system never files a warning whenever a character was not found in the font, unlike font systems for other output formats where a warning is always displayed whenever FOP detects a possible error.

Apparently, this is mainly happening because there is no defined mapping between Unicode values and font code points for AFP, as can be seen in CharacterSet.mapChar(). That's why I propose to change it to:

public char mapChar(char c) {
//TODO This is not strictly correct but we'll let it be for the moment
if (this.encoder.canEncode(c))

{ return c; }

return 0;
}

So we can check later in AbstractOutlineFont.mapChar() whenever a character was found or not and display a warning if necessary.

Any thoughts?

Thanks