[swfmill] font name format

[INADA Naoki]

Wmmmm,
Wmmmm,
It may be better to remove 'pascal string' and use length and byte array to
store font name in DefineFont2/3 tag.

Does anyone have an opinion about this issue?

INADA Naoki さんは書きました:
> Hi all.
> 
> The SWF File Format Specification v9 (We can read without any restrictions now!)
> says font name in DefineFont2/DefineFont3/DefineFontInfo is not null terminated.
> 
> --- SWF File Format Specifiction v9 page 191 ---
> Note that font name strings in the DefineFontInfo tag are not null-terminated;
> instead their length is specified by the FontNameLen field.
> ---
> 
> But spec is wrong and FontName should be null terminated according to this
> topic. < http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?13@@.59b53b2d/3 >
> 
> Attached patch add null terminator to output of SWFWriter::putPString().
> 
> But SWFWriter::putPString() is only used in DefineFont2/3 tag. DefineFontInfo/2 tag
> use ''data'' type to store FontName.
> Following comment is in swfmill/src/codegen/source.xml.
> 
>         <!--
>                 doesnt work for strange encodings (nibbles.swf)
>                 <string mode="pascal" name="name" prop="true"/>
>         -->
>         <byte name="nameLength"/>
>         <data name="nameData" size="nameLength"/>
> 
> I think it can replace nameLength and nameData into PString type. But I don't know
> what is the nibbles.swf and whether attached patch can or can't fix the problem.
> 
> 
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