Hi everyone,

I was using metapost to generate some symbols, as in "tex/texmf-context/metapost/context/fonts/mpiv/demo-symbols.tex"

Occasionally, I want to customize a glyph whose charcode is a little large, say the character "院":
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~~~IPython
In [1]: for c in u'院': print(ord(c))
38498
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so I wrote:
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beginglyph(38498,2,4,0) ; % high voltage
    interim ahlength := 1 ;
    drawarrow (1,4) -- (0,2) -- (2,3) -- (1,0) withcolor darkred ;
endglyph ;
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and I got:
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! Enormous number has been reduced.
l.60 beginzhglyph(38498
);
I can't handle numbers bigger than 32767.99998;
so I've changed your constant to that maximum amount.
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So charcode is a 15-bit integer?

Currently, I use `beginglyph(32767,2,4,0) ;` and call it with \char"7FFF. Not an elegant way I think.

Is there a fix? I checked the metapost manual and found that charcode is only used to set the filename to something like %{jobname}.%{charcode} I can't see why there's a limit for charcode.