How to get English name of Asian fonts?

[Tao Wang]

Hi,

I'm using SystemParametersInfo() to get the default font in system.
However, the name I got is Localized Font Name, just as described in
MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd162620%28v=VS.85%29.aspx
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The fonts for many East Asian languages have two typeface names: an
English name and a localized name. EnumFonts, EnumFontFamilies, and
EnumFontFamiliesEx return the English typeface name if the system
locale does not match the language of the font.
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However, in my application, I need to get the English name in whatever
locale it is, rather than the localized name.

I'm awared the article : http://www.trigeminal.com/samples/font_choices.html

There is a list of sample, but how to get the English name of the
default font programmatically?

Thanks.

[Mihai N.]

> There is a list of sample, but how to get the English name of the
> default font programmatically?

You have to parse the 'name' table
(http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/name.htm)
from the OpenType file.

Some code here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2007/01/22/1505420.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2006/02/13/530814.aspx

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Mihai Nita [Microsoft MVP, Visual C++]
http://www.mihai-nita.net
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