[fxfan]

I hit the comment limit earlier but thank you for writing in detail about what's actually going on behind the scenes so I can take care to not let the problem affect me much.

That said, and despite your yourself having mentioned that there is no excuse for the shortcomings, I feel like this decision in particular is just plain inexcusable anyway because if you're going to write portable document, at least use some form of UTF encoding rather than indexing into glyphs (or on top of !)