Re: [platform-swt-dev] FontData.getName() returns Non-Unicode string

[Felipe Heidrich <Felipe_Heidrich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Short answer is no, we don't provide API for what you are trying to do 
(force English name for all fonts).
But why do you want that ? IMO, you should use the localized names, it is 
consistent with all other applications on the platform and that is 
probably what your users expect to see.

Regards,
Felipe

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From:
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Date:
08/25/2009 04:33 AM
Subject:
[platform-swt-dev] FontData.getName() returns Non-Unicode string
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Hi all,
 
we're providing a software solution for chinese and european costumers and 
ran in a problem with FontData class. We need a list of all fonts which 
are installed on the operating system and expect their names in basic 
latin characters. But if someone changes the settings in the control panel 
for the language for non-unicode applications (see attached screenshot), 
we get for example chineses characters ("宋体") for the font "SimSun". 
 
Is there a way to get rid of this problem with the SWT API? We can't 
expect from our chinese customers that they change operating system 
settings for this issue.
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Florian Zoderer[attachment "language.jpg" deleted by Felipe 
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