[Lazarus] Font ?

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho felipemonteiro.carvalho at gmail.com
Sat Oct 9 18:57:11 CEST 2010


Fonts don't handle character sets, they handle glyths, which are
letter images. The same latter A image is used regardless of the
character set (also known as text encoding) or the language.

Plus, Lazarus also doesn't use multiple character sets, it uses only
only text encoding: UTF-8.

With that in mind, you should just use the default system font and
encode your strings in UTF-8. I've never seen a system where the
default font doesn't support the latin latters + the simple accents
from western european languages. Excluding ancient systems which
Lazarus doesn't support anyway such as MS-DOS.

In Windows XP the default font supports all major languages, even
japanese, chinese, etc. For Mac OS X the same.

-- 
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho




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