On 5/3/20 5:52 pm, Philip Race wrote:
"Check" or "ensure" ? To check you compare. To ensure you would have to do as you said in a previous reply by forcing max advance to as great as those arbitrary characters and I already gave my reasons why I think that is not appropriate. It is very hard to defend why certain code points are special and you would adjust the spec. again(!) to say that. And it would be to no advantage and perhaps break applications that did not expect it to change.
+1 Ok, looks like we(still) will use the chatW("w") in Swing then =( -- Best regards, Sergey.