Symbol and Dingbat hackery

I think we should take the oportunity in the 2.6 cycle to get rid of the
Symbol and Dingbat hackery that plagues our graphics classes. My
suggestion is that:

* We increase the AW document version to 1.2 and start storing all
character values in Unicode.

* We add code somewhere (where ever it makes most sense, probably
PD_Document), to translate Symbol and Dingbat codes to Unicode on import
of AW doc version < 1.2.

* There might need to be some changes to the win32 base class should we
continue to support Win9x in 2.6, although I think Uniscribe deals with
this internally, not entire sure.

* There might need to be some changes to our importers and exporters,
have not investigated that yet, but with possible exception of rtf/doc,
this should amount to removal of hacks.

I have got the Unix side nearly ready, just need to deal with the AW
legacy issue.

Tomas
Received on Mon Mar 20 18:18:09 2006