[FriBidi] log2vis() misbehaving with Arabic text?

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 14-10-27 08:39 AM, Philip Semanchuk wrote:
> I need to play around with it a little, though. For instance, I saw
> one case where the PDF rendered an unprintable character where
> log2vis() had inserted a ZWNBSP (0xfeff) into a string. Technically a
> ZWNBSP should be harmless but...

Right.  FriBidi inserts U+FEFF when it needs to delete a character slot.  The
FriBidi user should either remove those from the stream or make sure they
render to nothing.  That sounds like a ReportLab bug.

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