[Mono-devel-list] System.Drawing.Font question

[Aleksandar Dezelin]

Jordi Mas wrote:
> El dt 21 de 12 del 2004 a les 13:21 +0100, en/na Aleksandar Dezelin va
> escriure:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm currently developing FontDialog for the Managed Windows Forms and I 
>>need some info: how can I obtain available charsets for a font? Is there 
>>any method in GdiPlus that can be called in order to obtain the needed 
>>font property?
> 
> 
> What's my understanding of the issue. Correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> CharSet has no real meaning in System.Drawing. C# applications are
> Unicode. In MS .Net, DrawString uses font fallback to locate a glyph to 
> display characters that your desired that the font does not contain. You
> can control this with the StringFormatFlags enumeration (see
> NoFontFallback value). Basically,  when FontFallback is active, with
> every font you can display any glyph.
> 
> The Font object in System.Drawing has the GdiCharSet property that
> allows to specify the charset for this font. I actually never has seen
> this value <> 0.
> 
> In System.Windows.Forms the FontDialog allows you to select a script,
> but the Font object returned always has GdiCharSet = 1. It looks like
> the UI allows to select a script but the Font returned does not really
> contains the information since System.Drawing do not really uses it.
> 
> My suggestion there will be not shown the script information since it's
> not passed into the Font object created and it's not used at all.
> 
> In the other side, libgdiplus has no fallback system, then if a glyph is
> not present is just not shown. To be honest, the i18n part has been
> never worked, since I think that we should wait to see if Cairo and
> Pango are finally integrated.
> 
> Jordi,
> 
> Note: I'm CC mono-winforms-list

What about showing the font type pixmap in the FontDialog? How to 
determine if the actual font is a TrueType, OpenType, fixed, etc.?

Cheers,
Aleksandar Dezelin


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