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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Font behaviour
Date: Wed,  6 Feb 2002 09:33:05 +0000
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rob pike wrote:
> 1) characters absent from the font are by definition zero-width.

There's another usurpation of a meaningful in-band value
to signal an exception.  We gotta cut that out, it causes
trouble eventually in almost every case I've ever sen.