Description Andre Saibel 2014-01-17 07:58:46 EST

Some of the ASCII control characters (also defined in UNICODE http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf) are rendered as a block containing the hexadecimal codepoint info (even if there is a 'real' glyph within the used font), for instance the four NFORMATION SEPARATOR controls 'unit separator' \u001F, 'record separator' \u001E, 'group separator' \u001D and 'file separator' \u001C... and maybe some more.

It seems to be special to Linux' SWT implementation, since the same content is shown correctly on Windows platforms and also on Linux with other apllications e.g. browsers.

public void paintControl(PaintEvent pe)
{
     pe.gc.drawText("abc\u001Exyz", 0, 0);
}