Hmmm... are you sure this is actually a Unicode control? Question marks are
something you would see in the case of a conversion from Unicode -- which
means there is some point that things are being converted....
MichKa
Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc.
http://www.trigeminal.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tex Texin" <texin@progress.com>
To: "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <michka@trigeminal.com>
Cc: "Unicoders" <unicode@unicode.org>; "Gary Clink" <gclink@progress.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: Using Unicode fonts for plaintext display on windows 2000
> Michael,
> thanks. The behavior seemed to be that when the font was set to Hebrew
> script, Hebrew characters were displayed but Japanese were question
> marks. Setting the script to Japanese reversed the behavior, so we
> thought it was a script setting issue.
>
> Maybe for some reason we are not setting the font name or some other
> setting properly so we are not getting a Unicode font, and the font
> mapper is keying off the script. I'll look into it. Thanks for
> confirming the script behavior. I thought it odd.
>
> tex
>
> "Michael (michka) Kaplan" wrote:
> >
> > The script setting will not really end up being used in this case. It is
> > present because it is a fundamental member of the LOGFONT structure, but
it
> > is only used in cases where a device context will not be using Unicode
and
> > needs an intelligent guess as to what code page to use for rendering.
> >
> > This probably deserves more info in the docs, fwiw.
> >
> > MichKa
> >
> > Michael Kaplan
> > Trigeminal Software, Inc.
> > http://www.trigeminal.com/
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tex Texin" <texin@progress.com>
> > To: "Unicoders" <unicode@unicode.org>
> > Cc: "Gary Clink" <gclink@progress.com>; "Tex Texin" <texin@progress.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 11:21 AM
> > Subject: Using Unicode fonts for plaintext display on windows 2000
> >
> > > This is probably a quick question for those of you working on
Microsoft
> > > platforms.
> > >
> > > We want to use Unicode-based controls for data entry and display.
> > > Also, the data is plain text, no embedded signals for font or language
> > > changes. I.E. We can't use Rich text editor.
> > >
> > > When we set up to use Arial Unicode MS font, we have to choose a
> > > "script" setting. This seemingly restricts the display so characters
> > > outside of the script do not display correctly.
> > >
> > > Is there a value to use for "all scripts" or "multilingual"?
> > > Maybe there is a different API for Unicode font?
> > >
> > > How are other people entering and displaying multilingual plain text?
> > >
> > > tex
> > >
> > >
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>
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