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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