Re: Detecting Asian fonts?

FROM : Andy
DATE : Sun Jan 13 21:39:02 2002

Charles Jolley wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know how to determine if a font is made to handle Asian (Japanese, Korean, etc) characters?
>

This will tell you the font encoding, putting the description in a label onscreen.

Look at the classes mentioned, plus NSFont and NSFontManager and you
will soon see how to classify fonts. The only tricky thing is you need
to use the Core Foundation APIs as well as AppKit:

//decoding string encodings requires use of Core Foundation CFString functions,
    //the NSString stuff is deprecated
    cfsEncoding =
CFStringGetNameOfEncoding(CFStringConvertNSStringEncodingToEncoding([m_currentFont mostCompatibleStringEncoding]));
    [[fontEncoding cell] setTitle: [FontWindowMediator
CFStringToNSString: cfsEncoding]];



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