"Joe White" <ip255@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3F0113C9.8080508@hotmail.com...
> To determine which fonts are available, you can instantiate an
> InstalledFontCollection object and then read its Families property.
> This will give you an array of FontFamily objects, and FontFamily.Name
> gives you the font name.
>
> I'm not sure how to detect which characters are available in a font,
> though. I'd be surprised if there wasn't a way to do it, but I didn't
> see it in a quick skim through the docs.
>
>
> Jim Puls wrote:
> > I'm writing a Windows Forms application in C# which will run generally
in a
> > Western environment; e.g., EN-US. I need to access a unicode font on the
> > user's system which is capable of displaying Japanese characters - often
> > there will be one or more of such fonts, but I don't know which ones by
> > name. If one does not exist, I need to default to a public domain font
to be
> > included with the app.
> >
> > How do I determine which fonts are available on the user's system, and
if
> > they have the required characters? I could come up with a short list of
> > probable font name candidates, but is there a better way?
> >
> > If there are any references to URLs which have discussed this, that
would be
> > fine!
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > - Jim
> >
> >
>

Jim Puls wrote:
> I'm writing a Windows Forms application in C# which will run generally in a
> Western environment; e.g., EN-US. I need to access a unicode font on the
> user's system which is capable of displaying Japanese characters - often
> there will be one or more of such fonts, but I don't know which ones by
> name. If one does not exist, I need to default to a public domain font to be
> included with the app.
>
> How do I determine which fonts are available on the user's system, and if
> they have the required characters? I could come up with a short list of
> probable font name candidates, but is there a better way?
>
> If there are any references to URLs which have discussed this, that would be
> fine!
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Jim
>
>