Re: Unicode font support for all languages/characters?

From: Sam (bmasri_at_smartnetwireless.com)
Date: 02/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 02:48:57 GMT

Hi Kalon,

I can tell you about the Arabic language. You would need software that will
connects the text approperiately. Based on the position of the character
within the word, there is a different presentation. There is a good article
that has sample code that might help you.

http://codeproject.com/ce/arabicsupport.asp

Also, you need to include font in your PPC app that supports Arabic Unicode
like Tahoma font.

As of other languages, i'm not really sure if font would be sufficient

Hope this help!

"Kalon Mills" <cwbugs@byu.edu> wrote in message
news:%23B3wDY09DHA.2804@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> If you can shed any light on a solution to my problem, I appreciate it.
> (Even third party solutions.)
>
> Problem:
> I have an app that serves as a translation dictionary viewer. I have
> many of my own databases that store the word translations in unicode. I
> need the ability to display any of these languages. Right now it works
> just fine with languages such as English, French, Italian, etc.
> But I also have translation dictionaries for Chinese, Japanese, Thai,
> Arabic, Greek, and more. They don't display correctly. I don't know if
> that means that I just need a font that has all the glyphs for the
> unicode set or if I need something more. Also I need a compact font,
> unlike the Arial Unicode MS (22MB).
>
> Questions:
> Do I just need a font?
> Where can I get one that I can distribute with my program?
> What about bi-directional language support?
>
> Specs:
> I do not need to get special character input. I only want to display
> these characters. I am currently using evc++ 3.0 and have a project
> targeted for the Pocket PC 2002 platform. I am not using MFC.
>
> Background:
> I originally wrote this program for Palm OS. Palm OS doesn't have
> native support for Unicode so I used a third party software
> (twinypalm.com) to display text. With thier fonts and library it only
> came to about 1.5 MB. Now in porting the application over to pocket pc
> I have the unicode display problem.
>
> Once again, any help is appreciated.
> Kalon
>

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