The Windows Uniscribe API enables displaying text with far finer control over font features than can be accomplished with other GDI-based functions (DrawText or TextOut for example).
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Calculating the positions of glyphs in Windows
Is there any simple and compatible GDI or .NET accessible subsystem of Windows that will give glyph position characters. The task here is the combining symbols such as those in Arabic which sometimes have chains of multiple combining symbols…
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Windows API select bold font
I'm trying to write some code to select a bold font (I actually want to get the font filename to send to a cross platform font renderer, but that's not too relevant). I use CreateFont() setting the cWeight to FW_BOLD and pszFaceName to "Arial". I…
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Arabic letter noon ghunna incorrectly displayed with a dot
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The Arabic letter noon ghunna (ں) is displayed incorrectly on my Windows 10 PC (in Chrome, Edge, Notepad and Word). The sequence ALEF, NOON GHUNNA, ALEF is displayed as:
The same sequence is displayed correctly on my Android phone…
Sergey Slepov
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Uniscribe and Text Outlines
Can I use the output from ScriptShape/ScriptItemize in Uniscribe to get the char codes and pass the char codes to GetGlyphOutline to get the beziers?
Does Uniscribe have a call to get the outlines directly?
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