characters (Japanese specifically) on Win2K. We used to use MS Gothic UI,
but I don't really like that font. I find it difficult to find a font that
Joseph M. Newcomer <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in
news:ejaj24l3ca33rverrf56ob0que1hqd68mm@4ax.com:
Dialogs typically use a "default dialog font", which either has
ONLY characters U0020..U00FF or has only a tiny subset of the
Unicode fonts (usually, just enough to
handle central European, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Arabic...check out
Character Map). I wanted
to be able to display as many Unicode characters as possible, and in fact
in my first
test, the fraction 7/8 would not display in the input controls (although
it
"MS Shell Dlg" does quite ok.
It usually maps to "Microsoft Sans Serif" (on non-CCJK OS), then GDI
font-linking kicks in and you also get MS Gothic, MingLiU, SimSun and
Gulim.
If you have complext script support installed,
Uniscribe also does some magic and adds more support.
Try this: http://www.mihai-nita.net/article.php?artID=charmapex
So you are quite ok with "MS Shell Dlg" or directly
with "Microsoft Sans Serif"