[RESOLVED] Charsets, Fonts and Codepage questions

[Hassan Basri]

Hello everybody,

I have a question about charsets. I have an application in which on load I initialize the fonts the form and controls using whatever fonts are set in the users windows. Now I am porting this application to use arabic fonts. I am able to this by simply calling the charset property

obj.Font.Charset = 178 'Arabic Charset

My question is this, what if the current font doesn't support arabic script? I can always set the font name

obj.Font.Name = "Traditional Arabic" 'Some arabic font

but would like to use the font that is set in the users windows interface.

Here are my questions

1. Is there way of knowing if the current font can display arabic script or not? And if so use it, and if not then use a specfic arabic font?

2. What is the best way of determining if a system can display arabic fonts? Is it GetSystemMetrics(SM_MIDEASTENABLD) the only way or is there something else?

3. Should the codepage be set? Or by setting the charset that is enough?

4. I read this on the internet

cmdMyButton.Font.Charset = charsetCyrillic
cmdMyButton.Font.Name = ""
cmdMyButton.Caption = "Чао а тутто ил мондо!"

Setting the font name to an empty strings causes the Font object to choose the default font for the control's code page. Of course, you can also explicitly set a font name that you know supports that code page.

Does this mean that I just use the above code and it will select the default font that works with that specfic charset?

Thanks for your assistance.