Use of hex value with CHARACTER keyword

[dmorissette]

It has been reported that when defining a symbol using a truetype font, it is
possible to use either the character (such as CHARACTER "?") or the number (such
as CHARACTER "?"), but it's not possible to use a hex value for the number.

We could use the form "?" for that, as described in the HTML 4.01 spec:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/charset.html#entities

Would it be much work to add that to the parser?

[sdlime]

This seems like an issue with Freetype and/or the GD interface. That's where 
the special representations are recognized. Are you suggesting that we convert 
the hex to a number before handing to GD? If so that wouldn't be too hard. Just 
a bit of code added to mapsymbol.c to check for a hex value and do the 
conversion.

Steve

[hobu]

Has this one been fixed?

[hobu]

Putting this on the 5.0 milestone as we may want to do something re: AGG as well here.

[sdlime]

Replying to hobu:

No, I don't ever recall seeing it...