RE: Font for Japanese && US applications

From: addison@inter-locale.com
Date: Fri Jul 21 2000 - 05:42:28 EDT


>
> Microsoft supplies fonts that probably do what you want.
>
> MS Gothic is part of the Japanese language pack that should be on your NT 4
> CD-ROM. You can also install it via Windows Update on the Tools menu in IE
> 5.
>
> MS Mincho contains more characters, and is supplied with Office 2000 and
> FrontPage 2000.
>
> You can find information about Unicode fonts that support particular
> languages and ranges at:
> http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/fonts.html
> http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/fontsbyrange.html
>
Please note that Japanese machines name these fonts IN JAPANESE using
multi-byte Latin-1 characters, so if you call them by name in your code,
you will get different results on English and Japanese machines.

Best Regards,

Addison



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