Czech Support

rbuser

Hello,

I have a client, in Prague, who is using an aplication that's includes
Report Builder to design and produce custom reports. We are not concerned
about the lanaguage of the IDE. That is, the application is for english
speaking users; however, we are concerned about correctly producing Czech
output.

This application contains a couple of tools that produce report output:

One tool (not rb) successfully produces the correct Czech output when the
end-user choose to render the output in a font named "Arial CE". I believe
this stands for "Arial Cetral Eurpeon". I don't know much more about this
font, other than it apears tooproduce the correct output in times that
"Arial" doesn't.

The primary problem with RB is that the end-user does not appear to be able
to choose "Arial CE". That is, when designing custom reports/labels with RB
the pull-down font list does not include "Arial CE" and therefore we can't
test to see if this will produce correct output. When we choose "Arial" we
get the same incorrect output that the other produces when using "Arial".

Can you please explain?

Kindest Regards,

Rick.

nardmoseley

There is a class called TppFontList located in ppUtils.pas. TppFontList is
responsible for building a list of available fonts. Internally this class
calls the Windows API EnumFontFamiliesEx function. This functions returns
all of the fonts that are valid for the specified device context.

You can try setting Report.PrinterSetup.PrinterName to a different printer
and then see whether that make a difference as to which fonts are available.

And you can trace the code in ppUtils.pas for TppFontList.CreateList and
EnumFontFamiliesExProc, which is the call back routine.


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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Hello, I am czech Delphi developer and I hope I can help you.
To produce correct czech output in Windows you need to draw text using code
page Windows 1250.
For 16-bit applications and for few 32-bit ones that use "old" methods to
display their output you can use "Arial CE" substitution. In fact this tell
the GDI to use east europe charset of Arial font (see registry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes).
For 32-bit applications that don't use UNICODE (like Delphi Win32
applications) you must specify character sets. For our country it is 238
(Delphi constant EASTEUROPE_CHARSET). You must setup this in design time of
the report (however you can do it by program in your code).
Each text output control must have Font.Charset := EASTEUROPE_CHARSET. Than
it will produce correct czech output.
For .NET applications you don't need to take care about this, they use
unicode and don't have any of these problems.

Regards, Igor Gottwald

"Rick Hazell" p??e v diskusn?m p??sp?vku

nardmoseley

Thanks for sharing that info.

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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
www.digital-metaphors.com