Unicode conversion
in [MFC]
|
From: Mihai N. on 14 May 2008 03:07 Joseph M. Newcomer <newcomer(a)flounder.com> wrote in news:ejaj24l3ca33rverrf56ob0que1hqd68mm(a)4ax.com: > Dialogs typically use a "default dialog font", which either has > ONLY characters U0020..U00FF or has only a tiny subset of the > Unicode fonts (usually, just enough to > handle central European, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Arabic...check out > Character Map). I wanted > to be able to display as many Unicode characters as possible, and in fact in my first > test, the fraction 7/8 would not display in the input controls (although it "MS Shell Dlg" does quite ok. It usually maps to "Microsoft Sans Serif" (on non-CCJK OS), then GDI font-linking kicks in and you also get MS Gothic, MingLiU, SimSun and Gulim. If you have complext script support installed, Uniscribe also does some magic and adds more support. Try this: http://www.mihai-nita.net/article.php?artID=charmapex So you are quite ok with "MS Shell Dlg" or directly with "Microsoft Sans Serif" -- Mihai Nita [Microsoft MVP, Visual C++] http://www.mihai-nita.net ------------------------------------------ Replace _year_ with _ to get the real email
From: Gert on 14 May 2008 04:07 Thanks Joe. In article <ejaj24l3ca33rverrf56ob0que1hqd68mm(a)4ax.com>, newcomer(a)flounder.com says... > Dialogs typically use a "default dialog font", which either has ONLY characters > U0020..U00FF or has only a tiny subset of the Unicode fonts (usually, just enough to ......
From: Joseph M. Newcomer on 14 May 2008 08:52 The font specified is "MS Sans Serif", and when I pasted the 7/8 in (copied from Character Map), all I got was a blot. But when I went back to where it was used, everything worked fine. Since I needed the general solution, I implemented the code shown. But from what you suggested, I should have seen the 7/8 symbol displayed, which I didn't. However, the nature of the app is that whatever font the user has selected is the font I want to use, so if the user is using wingdings, I will display in wingdings, if the user has selected Lucida Sans Console I will display in that font, etc. joe On Wed, 14 May 2008 00:07:36 -0700, "Mihai N." <nmihai_year_2000(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >Joseph M. Newcomer <newcomer(a)flounder.com> wrote in >news:ejaj24l3ca33rverrf56ob0que1hqd68mm(a)4ax.com: > >> Dialogs typically use a "default dialog font", which either has >> ONLY characters U0020..U00FF or has only a tiny subset of the >> Unicode fonts (usually, just enough to >> handle central European, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Arabic...check out >> Character Map). I wanted >> to be able to display as many Unicode characters as possible, and in fact >in my first >> test, the fraction 7/8 would not display in the input controls (although it > >"MS Shell Dlg" does quite ok. >It usually maps to "Microsoft Sans Serif" (on non-CCJK OS), then GDI >font-linking kicks in and you also get MS Gothic, MingLiU, SimSun and Gulim. > >If you have complext script support installed, >Uniscribe also does some magic and adds more support. >Try this: http://www.mihai-nita.net/article.php?artID=charmapex > >So you are quite ok with "MS Shell Dlg" or directly >with "Microsoft Sans Serif" Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP] email: newcomer(a)flounder.com Web: http://www.flounder.com MVP Tips: http://www.flounder.com/mvp_tips.htm
From: Tom Serface on 14 May 2008 11:25 I often hear people say they are afraid to convert their applications to Unicode because they don't know the effect it will have, but I've found that the conversion is not as big a deal as you might think. The font thing is important in many cases though. For example, if you use MS Serif for Japanese it will work fine on Win XP and Vista, but not on Win2K (the fonts in the font are different). I think this is becoming less of a problem as fewer people use Win2K, but you can also install the XP font on Win2K as well. I think font choice will be one of your biggest challenges especially if you have already used the _T() TCHAR macros as is often recommended. Tom "Gert" <dont(a)want.no.spam> wrote in message news:MPG.22933bad9333d2a9989680(a)news.planet.nl... > Joseph, > > You say: > >> The misc lines were involved in making sure that the edit controls and >> static controls use >> Arial MS Unicode for display of text. > > What exactly do you mean here? Any web references to this issue? > > I will be converting an application to Unicode in a few months - the > original was not written Unicode-aware. I understand the other changes I > need to make, but not the above. > > Thanks, > Gert
From: Tom Serface on 14 May 2008 11:27 As I mentioned to OP, we've found that MS Sans Serif is missing some characters (Japanese specifically) on Win2K. We used to use MS Gothic UI, but I don't really like that font. I find it difficult to find a font that works for all cases. Tom "Mihai N." <nmihai_year_2000(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:Xns9A9F149392E3MihaiN(a)207.46.248.16... > Joseph M. Newcomer <newcomer(a)flounder.com> wrote in > news:ejaj24l3ca33rverrf56ob0que1hqd68mm(a)4ax.com: > >> Dialogs typically use a "default dialog font", which either has >> ONLY characters U0020..U00FF or has only a tiny subset of the >> Unicode fonts (usually, just enough to >> handle central European, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Arabic...check out >> Character Map). I wanted >> to be able to display as many Unicode characters as possible, and in fact > in my first >> test, the fraction 7/8 would not display in the input controls (although >> it > > "MS Shell Dlg" does quite ok. > It usually maps to "Microsoft Sans Serif" (on non-CCJK OS), then GDI > font-linking kicks in and you also get MS Gothic, MingLiU, SimSun and > Gulim. > > If you have complext script support installed, > Uniscribe also does some magic and adds more support. > Try this: http://www.mihai-nita.net/article.php?artID=charmapex > > So you are quite ok with "MS Shell Dlg" or directly > with "Microsoft Sans Serif"
First
|
Prev
|
Next
|
Last
Pages: 1 2 3 4 Prev: Found: a really odd bug Next: Make button on the dialog currently selected programmatically |