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Gurhan Cogumlu wrote:

> Hello M.Cope,
> I want to use a character like invers e (?) from Azeri Latin Fonts. I
> have changed my computer's keyboard settings to Azeri (Latin) and
> this character seems like question mark (?).

Okay I thought as much and my original reply probably holds true. You
need to configure your machine's locale to Azerbaijan. The problem is
that the VCL (in common with a lot of Windows programs) uses 8-bit
characters and that means 256 possible characters.

That is nowhere near enough for all the languages of the world so they
have been divided into codepages. Each codepage contains a subset of
characters that should be adequate in most cases for a particular part
of the world.

Changing your keyboard settings was a good first step but you also need
to change the locale. That tells Windows which codepage to use. To do
this go to Control Panel\Regional Options and select the country or
region. Unfortunately Azerbaijan isn't on my list so I don't know what
you'd choose.

It's worth pointing out that this is an exclusive option. If you make
this change it may interfere with your computers ability to display the
Roman alphabet. If you are adding support for this font so that users
of that language can feel more comfortable that's fine but if you are
adding support so anyone else can use it (ie;an American or Briton)
then this solution won't work because it might interfere with their
normal use of the computer.

The only way to avoid having to change the locale is use Unicode and
that means rendering strings yourself using TextOutW(). There is a
component package that can provide Unicode support for the VCL called
'ElPack'. If you Google for it you should find some references.

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