Re: Font names

[Antoine Leca]

Hidetoshi Yamano-uchi wrote:
> 
> From: Antoine Leca <address@hidden>
> 
> > - for the platform Microsoft (id=3), all encoding seem to be 16-bit
> 
> It is not correct.
> 
> For example, the Microsoft "Shift_JIS" encoding (PlatformID=3,
> EncodingID=2), it is not a wide-charcter encoding set, but a multibyte
> encoding set.  It uses 8-bit(JIS X0201) and 16-bit(JIS X0208) in the
> same name table.

I certainly lacks experience with CJK fonts, and Yamano-uchi-san is
much more an expert that I am on these matters.

However, my first impression was exactely like Yamano-uchi-san, but to 
be sure I checked with some old Windows 3.1 Chinese and Korean fonts.
To much of my surprise (and pain), I found the characters encoded as
wide characters, that is all as 16-bits, including space (so with an
embeeded '\0')... So I did not search wider and wrote the above line.


The bottom line is that both SJIS and EUC-xx (DBCS 8/16-bit, as described
by Yamanoi-uchi-san) *and* uniform 16-bit wide characters appear to exist.
Consequently, robust code may have to take care of that.


Antoine