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Article #107Re: Unicode newbie
From: Dennis Jones
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 17:46
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 17:46
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"nicolasr" <nicolasrNOSPAMATSIGNgmx.net> wrote in message news:41ca2460@newsgroups.borland.com... > thanks Alan for the reply. > > The special turkish characters I only get when setting the font name to > Arial Unicode MS, although I don't have this file??? > > I'm also still confused about the role of the Charset property for a > given font. For example I want to display some arabic characters. > I leave the Font name at MS Sans Serif and get correct arabic text > even when I set the Charset to RUSSIAN_CHARSET!!! > > I'm most likely missing the basic concept here. > Any hints or links welcome! > Character sets are irrelevant when using Unicode. That's the whole point of Unicode -- it provides a unified (hence the prefix, "uni-") set of characters for all languages -- which is what makes it possible to display, say, Japanese and Russian text at the same. - Dennis
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