[RESOLVED] Fonts and VB

[Elroy]

Hi Stuck,

Well, that's a bit of a loaded question. I'm not sure there's any font that's going to be totally "complete". However, you can find fonts that have a relatively complete ANSI character set that will address all the romantic languages. (That's the languages that have an alphabet that sounds something like our ABCs.) But there are many non-romantic languages around. If you find a font that has the entire Unicode (UTF16) character-set in it, that'll be about as complete as I'd think you would ever find. However, I'm not even sure I've seen a font that's even that complete.

So, as you see, to answer that question, you really have to make some decisions about what you're going to use it for, and how widely (culturally/linguistically) you expect your program to be distributed. For me, I'm personally quite tied to the ASCII (English alphabet), even though I have users in Montreal and and also a couple of Spanish speaking locales. Mexico City is also discussing an installation.

Actually, let me take that back. There's a questionnaire's section to my software, and I do have both Spanish and French versions for some of those questionnaires, and they do use the standard fonts.

Therefore, a full ANSI font (ASCII with the addition of characters with the tildes, accents, and such) gets it done for me.

Good Luck,
Elroy

EDIT1: I haven't really done thorough research, but I do believe all the fonts that come with Windows are complete with respect to tildes and accents, but not necessarily for all the non-romantic characters.

EDIT2: And, before someone calls me on it, I probably should have said "Greco-Roman languages" rather than "Romantic languages". There is a category for roman languages, but it's a bit different than what I was trying to talk about. I'm just talking about those languages that have a somewhat familiar sounding alphabet: ABC, Alpha Beta Gamma (not sure where C went, but it counts).