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[Jul-25-2023 16:57] About font filename support (Wontae)
- [Jul-25-2023 20:44] Re: About font filename support (Peter Kwan)
  - [Jul-26-2023 10:30] Re: About font filename support (Wontae)
    - [Jul-26-2023 20:57] Re: About font filename support (Peter Kwan)
- [Jul-27-2023 18:49] Re: About font filename support (HANSOO KIM)

About font filename support
Posted by Wontae on Jul-25-2023 16:57	\| Reply \| Monitor
Hi Peter i have a one question. in c++ setLabelStyle(font, fontSize, fontColor, fontAngle) my question is font filename not support korean? for example setLabelStyle("Harmony M.ttf", 10, color, 0) => it is work setLabelStyle("í•˜ëª¨ë‹ˆ M.ttf" ", 10, color, 0) => not work same fontfile but name is different. Thank you

Re: About font filename support

Posted by Peter Kwan on Jul-25-2023 20:44

Hi Wontae,

If you are using ChartDirector 7, it can support user friendly font names, which is the font names you see when choose the font in Microsoft Word. For example, instead of using "times.ttf", you can use "Time News Roman".

I do not have Korean Windows or your font, so I do not know what is the correct font name. I think some possibilities are:

í˜„ëŒ€í•˜ëª¨ë‹ˆ
í˜„ëŒ€í•˜ëª¨ë‹ˆM
í˜„ëŒ€í•˜ëª¨ë‹ˆ M
í•˜ëª¨ë‹ˆ
í•˜ëª¨ë‹ˆM
í•˜ëª¨ë‹ˆ M

You can open Microsoft Word (or any GUI program that allows you to select the font) and check what is the name of the font.

As ChartDirector expects UTF8 encoding, please use something like:

setLabelStyle(WCHARtoUTF8(L"í˜„ëŒ€í•˜ëª¨ë‹ˆ M"), 10, color, 0)

If you are using MFC, you can try _T string:

setLabelStyle(TCHARtoUTF8(_T("í˜„ëŒ€í•˜ëª¨ë‹ˆ M")), 10, color, 0)

Best Regards
Peter Kwan

Re: About font filename support

Posted by Wontae on Jul-26-2023 10:30

Hi Peter

Sorry for the trouble
I use ChartDirector 6

I tried like the sample you suggested, but it didn't work
ex) setLabelStyle(TCHARtoUTF8(_T("í˜„ëŒ€í•˜ëª¨ë‹ˆ M")), 10, color, 0)

addTitle is same

c.addTitle(TCHARtoUTF8(_T("í˜„ëŒ€í•˜ëª¨ë‹ˆ M")), TCHARtoUTF8(_T("í˜„ëŒ€í•˜ëª¨ë‹ˆ M.TTF")), 20, 0, 0xFFFFFF);  // use font filename
c.addTitle(TCHARtoUTF8(_T("í˜„ëŒ€í•˜ëª¨ë‹ˆ M")), TCHARtoUTF8(_T("í˜„ëŒ€í•˜ëª¨ë‹ˆ M")), 20, 0, 0xFFFFFF); // use fontname
=>  2 case's result is "ã…ã…ã…ã…ã… M"  Korean Language is broken

I change font filename to English ("í˜„ëŒ€í•˜ëª¨ë‹ˆ M.TTF"  -> "aaaa.TTF")
c.addTitle(TCHARtoUTF8(_T("í˜„ëŒ€í•˜ëª¨ë‹ˆ M")), TCHARtoUTF8(_T("aaaa.TTF")), 20, 0, 0xFFFFFF); => result is "í˜„ëŒ€í•˜ëª¨ë‹ˆ M "

is ChartDirector 6 not support?
If chart director 6 is supported, I will look for issues in other my codes.

Best Regards
Wontae Noh

Re: About font filename support

Posted by Peter Kwan on Jul-26-2023 20:57

Hi Wontae,

User friendly font names are only supported since ChartDirector 7. ChartDirector 6 can only use ASCII font filenames.

The easiest way is to upgrade to ChartDirector 7. But if this is not desirable, you can use the "short pathname" for the file instead of the normal filename.

For your case, please first verify if your font filename is really in Korean and the font file is in "c:WindowsFonts". The font name shown in "c:WindowsFonts" is not the filename. To obtain the filename, select a font, right click and select "Properties". I have attached two screen shots for your reference. Please verify the font name is really Korean, and the font is in "c:windowsfonts" (or [windows]fonts, where [windows] is the windows OS directory).

After the font name is in fact in Korean, in ChartDirector 6, you can use the short pathname instead. The windows API is GetShortPathName. See:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-getshortpathnamew

(Long time ago, windows filename can have at most 8 ASCII characters, and 3 ASCII characters for the file extension. Modern file systems support longer filenames, but for backwards compatibility, there is also an automatically generated short filename for each file. The short filename is normally not visible, but you can use GetShortPathName to get it.

Best Regards
Peter Kwan

Re: About font filename support

Posted by HANSOO KIM on Jul-27-2023 18:49

Dear Wontae :

Everying convered to UTF8, not unicode itself and font name and font files totally different matters, so, You have to make sure font name on the windows system. below sample shows "í˜„ëŒ€í•˜ëª¨ë‹ˆ M + Italic"

<code>

char titleName[128] = { 0 };
char UTF8Bytes[128] = { 0 };

CString szTitle;
szTitle.Format(_T("ë‹¤ëžŒì¥ í—Œ ì³‡ë°”í€´ì—"));
memset(titleName, 0, 64);
nLen = WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, 0, szTitle.GetBuffer(), (int)szTitle.GetLength(), NULL, 0, NULL, NULL);
WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, 0, szTitle.GetBuffer(), (int)szTitle.GetLength(), titleName, nLen, NULL, NULL);

CString szFont;
szFont.Format(_T("í˜„ëŒ€í•˜ëª¨ë‹ˆ M Italic"));
memset(UTF8Bytes, 0, 64);
nLen = WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, 0, szTitle.GetBuffer(), (int)szTitle.GetLength(), NULL, 0, NULL, NULL);
WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, 0, szTitle.GetBuffer(), (int)szTitle.GetLength(), UTF8Bytes, nLen, NULL, NULL);

c->addTitle(titleName, UTF8Bytes, 48);

</code>

BR
HANSOO KIM