Re: Windows Bitmap fonts and Unicode

From: Antoine Leca (Antoine.Leca@renault.fr)
Date: Mon May 29 2000 - 13:59:22 EDT


Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
>
> Do you know whether or not Windows Bitmap fonts (.FON files) support
> Unicode or i18n information in any way?

I thought .FON were limited to 256 characters and that the bitmap
should be entirely included between 0 and the advance width,
when considered along the x-axis. Until these two restrictions
are dropped, I did not consider them suitable to Unicode.

Antoine



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