Michael Dewsnip [18.05.2007 04:28]:
> Almost all of your changes are in code that I wrote, so I guess
> I'm the best person to take care of them :-)
well, this is because i use GenericList almost exclusively now ;-)
you did a great job with it!

> Thanks for pointing this out; I'll try to find an alternative way
> of doing this that doesn't mess up Unicode strings.
given the difficulty of solving this, do you think it's needed at
all? we're living quite well without.

> I can see your point about the incorrect search matches, but I
> don't think this is the right way to solve the problem because
> you sometimes see this string when viewing the document.
ah, ok, forgot that. in our collections we have taken measures
against displaying "empty" texts.

> It would be better if the plugin didn't add any text to the
> document, and the C++ code displayed the "dummy text" string if
> necessary when outputting the document.
wasn't the dummy text needed due to restrictions in mg(pp)? i mean,
wasn't this the reason to *add* that dummy text to the documents?

> Good idea, I'll add this in.
thanks :-)

cheers
jens