For our friends in the international community, text rendering is possible by means of the Glyph tag.
So, for example this XAML:
<Canvas x:Name="GlyphDisplayCanvas" Canvas.Left="0" Canvas.Top="0" >
<Glyphs x:Name="GlyphDisplay" Fill="Black" FontUri="./simhei.ttf"
FontRenderingEmSize="48" UnicodeString="你好, 你好吗？" />
</Canvas>
Will render Chinese text in WPF/E.
Please note a couple of things:
1: You have to use the FontUri to specify the font, and you must use a font that supports the characters.
2: Make sure that you are licensed to redistribute said font.
I am working on a Whitepaper for MSDN to show how this can be used in conjunction with ASP.NET controls for IME-based text input in far eastern languages.
If you read Chinese, check out my colleague, Hong Chao Wang's blog for more details...
http://blog.joycode.com/joy/archive/2007/04/06/100553.aspx
Hi! (Henric from Tokyo here)
This is great and I assume this goes for Japanese as well?
On a side note, back in march 2006 I was working on a (WPF) project that made heavy use of flow documents. The application had a complex grid layout with several FlowDocumentPageViewers displaying Japanese content. One thing I noticed while doing this was that WPF was considerably slower at rendering quantities of Japanese glyphs as compared to rendering roman letters. (Naturally due to the complexity of a single glyph.)
Have you noticed any performance impact in WPF/e when rendering Chinese letters as opposed to roman?
Hi Henric!
Yes, it also applies to Japanese and anything else that needs UniCode.
I'll be honest -- I haven't done any benchmarking on it...
Laurence
hi, Laurence,
The two far east fonts that on winxp are pretty big. It's probably not a good idea to ask user to download a 10Mg font file.
So I would like to use those fonts if they are already on user's system.
How how can I specify the path?
FontUri="c:\windows\fonts\simsun.ttc"
works in most cases, but not all because user's windows dir might be D:\win instead C:\windows. And %SYSTEMROOT% environment variable doesn't work here.
Any Idea?
Thanks
Wensheng