Actually fonts on Windows are normally Unicode based (including MS
Mincho and MS Gothic) and most have in addition some codepage access. So
there is neither a perf hit nor a codepage problem in using such fonts
on NT, Win2000 and WinXP. These considerations are orthogonal to
OpenType.
Murray
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From: Richard, Francois M
Sent: Wed 2001/08/01 05:40
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Subject: Unicode/font questions.
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?
François
