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Font ?

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Terry A. Haimann

I have a project with several Place Names from Mexico are Quebec. What Fonts are available that handle English, French and Spanish Character sets at the same time?

Thanks in advance,

TH

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Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
to Terry A. Haimann

Fonts don't handle character sets, they handle glyths, which are letter images. The same latter A image is used regardless of the character set (also known as text encoding) or the language.

Plus, Lazarus also doesn't use multiple character sets, it uses only only text encoding: UTF-8.

With that in mind, you should just use the default system font and encode your strings in UTF-8. I've never seen a system where the default font doesn't support the latin latters + the simple accents from western european languages. Excluding ancient systems which Lazarus doesn't support anyway such as MS-DOS.

In Windows XP the default font supports all major languages, even japanese, chinese, etc. For Mac OS X the same.

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho

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Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
to Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho

Ah, just in case you really want one font to add in the project (maybe to look the same in all platforms), then pretty much any font you can get will be able to support latin latters + western european accents. There are of course some exceptions.

I personally like Bitstream Vera Sans which should be in most Linux distributions.

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho

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