CODEWITHSUNDEEP
c#winformsunicoderendering
Stefan Schultze
Stefan Schultze

Reputation: 9398

How to render unicode characters in the correct font? (C#/WinForms)

My application correctly handles different kind of character sets, but only internally - when it comes to displaying text in standard WinForms labels und textboxes, it seems to have problems with chinese characters.

The problem seems to be the font used (Tahoma), because when I copy&paste the text, or view it in the debugger, it is displayed correctly. Also when I set MS Mincho as the font to be used, the characters on the screen look OK.

Of course, I don't want to use MS Mincho in the entire application. Do I have to switch the font depending on the characters displayed, or is there a better way I have missed?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 4494

Answers (2)

bzlm
bzlm

Reputation: 9727

UniScribe, which was introduced in Windows 2000, is supposed to handle this transparently, meaning that it will automatically use a different font (such as Mincho) for characters that aren't present in the font you've selected. This is why it looks correct in the debugger, even though the font used in the debugger doesn't contain Chinese characters. Perhaps you are doing something that disables UniScribe, or is problematic in some other way. Perhaps if you could paste some code it would be easier to identify the problem.

Upvotes: 4

Internet Friend
Internet Friend

Reputation: 1072

All fonts don't have data for all the glyphs that can be expressed in unicode. You´ll have to locate a suitable font which has the subset you want.

edit: Just to clarify, there are fonts which cover the full unicode range, but the one you´re using now isn´t one of them.

Upvotes: 0

Related Questions