Since Win2000 and NT are native Unicode, is it true to say that any use of a
non-Unicode font (in fact most of the fonts on Windows. And in particular
Asian font like MS Mincho, MS Gothic) in a Unicode application will generate
a conversion WideCharToMultibyte (to convert the Unicode text to the
specific font codepage)?
Is this a big performance hit?
Can this create mapping issues (e.g. Unicode <-> Chinese character
encoding)?
Are we sure that if a font is installed on a machine, then the appropriate
codepage is going to be available too (for the conversion)?
What about "extending" current non-Unicode font to support Unicode? Like a
"MS Mincho Unicode"... It would still be specialized/dedicated to Asian
glyphs, but by using Unicode character encoding, it would not require the
WideCharToMultibyte conversion...
Is Open TrueType related to this?
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