[Ming-dev] (no subject)

[c j. <cj...@ho...>]

I notice a few people have complained of strange behaviour when
using "arial.fdb" within Ming.  I think that Ming sees it as an ASCII font 
where its really a widechar font.  this then causes a memory write error in 
SWF_buildReverseMapping(SWFFont Font) in font.c

A fix which seems to work is to add the following lines to
loadSWFFontFromFile(File* file) in font.c

after the line:

nGlyphs = readUInt16(file);

add:

if (nGlyphs > 256)
    font->flags |= SWF_FONT_WIDECODES;

and then rebuild.

I haven't had a chance to thoroughly look at code and figure out if this is 
a long-term valid solution or not, but it at least seems to avoid the memory 
problems and I hope it can be useful for others.

Col.


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