RE: [ft] Using Unicode with FreeType?

[David Bevan]

I think you'll find that you need to use arialuni.ttf.

David %^>


> -----Original Message-----
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> address@hidden On Behalf Of address@hidden
> u.ac.jp
> Sent: 15 May 2010 12:04
> To: Infro
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [ft] Using Unicode with FreeType?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 15 May 2010 05:53:53 -0500
> "Infro" <address@hidden> wrote:
> >Using arial font, %windir%\fonts\arial.ttf, I've tried to load the
> Hiragana
> >'A' or あ, 0x3042 or 12354d.
> 
> >Is there perhaps something I'm missing or not understanding?
> 
> Have you checked that arial.ttf includes "あ"?
> Unfortunately, freetype2-demos does not provide Win32
> tool to view the glyphs in a font. If you don't know
> anything appropriate, please try "fontforge" to view
> all glyphs in a font file.
> 
> The font framework of Microsoft Windows can synthesize
> a virtual font object named "Arial" including many many
> glyphs that cannot be found in "arial.ttf". So don't think
> the name of "font" in the font menu of Windows application
> is the name of font "file". It's a name of the font object
> synthesized by Microsoft Windows.
> 
> Regards,
> mpsuzuki
> 
> 
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