Get supported characters of a font - in C#
I have a third party font with support for japanese characters which I need to use for an application. Whenever a character is not supported by this font, the often seen rectangle ("default character") is drawn. Obviously not all japanese characters are supported, because if I try to draw the translations that our translation office gave us, there are a lot of rectangles.
I need to be notified whenever a not supported character is used, so that I can change the font for this single character (like Word does it) or implement some other reaction to that.
Any ideas? If I could extract a list of unicode characters from the TTF file, then I would be able to check whether a used character is covered by this list. But how can I do so?
Based on this answer.
Be sure to reference PresentationCore.dll
Try using this code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Media;
namespace fontChecker
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var families = Fonts.GetFontFamilies(@"C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\Arial.TTF");
foreach (FontFamily family in families)
{
var typefaces = family.GetTypefaces();
foreach (Typeface typeface in typefaces)
{
GlyphTypeface glyph;
typeface.TryGetGlyphTypeface(out glyph);
IDictionary<int, ushort> characterMap = glyph.CharacterToGlyphMap;
foreach (KeyValuePair<int, ushort> kvp in characterMap)
{
Console.WriteLine(String.Format("{0}:{1}", kvp.Key, kvp.Value));
}
}
}
}
}
}
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