Re: Vista and HP48 font

Bruce, thanks for the link. It seems more about using fonts for spoofing IE
then for main program displays but it gave some interesting leads.
Still no fix, though. I found a program called Babble Edit" which can be
made to show that the characters are still in the font but so far I cannot
make Babble edit show the characters either! I will keep looking.

The key may be that the characters are in the "Control Characters" mapping
and that the Unicode handling of 0080-009F has been changed under Vista.

thanks

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"Bruce Horrocks" <07.013@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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William Graves wrote:
I installed Vista and was checking the HP48.ttf that I ship with Debug4x.

Characters 0x7E through 0x9F show as blank spaces.
When I run Charmap.exe, these are blank spaces under Vista.
When I run Charmap.exe on XP, these are the expected characters.

HELP!
Anyone???

Hi Bill,

Vista introduced some anti-spoofing techniques that affect font handling
which might be the cause of your problem. Have a look at
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/06/CLRInsideOut/default.aspx>
and scroll down to the bit entitled "Windows Vista and Managed IDN Mapping
APIs"

I don't know what the solution is though - presumably another option to
the display rendering API call to say that anti-spoofing can be disabled?

Regards,
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Bruce Horrocks
Surrey
England
(bruce at scorecrow dot com)


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