Rhymes with Amharic (a.k.a. How about a little breakfast embed, dear?)

Rhymes with Amharic #2 (a.k.a. Before you embed, you have build something to embed)

Sorting It All Out — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:22:45 GMT

(see here for the first part) The first part of the code centers around a call to TTEmbedFont . It only

re: Rhymes with Amharic (a.k.a. How about a little breakfast embed, dear?)

Dennis E. Hamilton — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:08:22 GMT

This is fascinating. It is a great example of the dependence of successful transformations on small details too (like comparing resampled GIFs that were produced by different apps from the same vector-graphic original).

I notice two things here. First, the impact of Cleartype is amazing. Secondly, the Vista rendering seems fuzzy somehow and not as crisp as the XP SP2 Cleartype. I realize the sizes are different, with different assumed resolutions, but the subjective experience at scale is important. (I think I see this on my Vista-equipped Tablet PC too, so I really wonder ... )

If you use the same DPI, how well does Vista match the XP Cleartype case?

re: Rhymes with Amharic (a.k.a. How about a little breakfast embed, dear?)

Michael S. Kaplan — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:02:10 GMT

Well, the Vista machine happened to be running at 134 DPI, which does warp the perspective a bit. :-)

(I was looking at a dfifferent issue at the time!)

When they match, the results are actually about the same to the untrained eye....

re: Rhymes with Amharic (a.k.a. How about a little breakfast embed, dear?)

Scott Hanselman — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:10:43 GMT

Great stuff...just an FYI, the code download is missing a number of resource files and what not, and I had to manually edit the csproj to remove those in order to get it to build.

Thanks for doing this series, Michael.

Thanks...Betam amessagganalehugn...አመስግናለሁ

re: Rhymes with Amharic (a.k.a. How about a little breakfast embed, dear?)

Michael S. Kaplan — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:18:20 GMT

Whoops, forgot that pesky property dir. Fixed now....

Always a pleasure. :-)

Rhymes with Amharic #3 (a.k.a. Read and write a language w/o even getting out of my [em]bed? Kewl!)

Sorting It All Out — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:36:20 GMT

(see also the first part and the second part) We now have that binary chunk that needs to be loaded,

Custom Cultures - WinForms Font Embedding Code with Ethiopian Amharic for Vista

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:12:51 GMT

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - Custom Cultures - WinForms Font Embedding Code with Ethiopian Amharic for Vista and XP

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:12:55 GMT

PingBack from http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CustomCulturesWinFormsFontEmbeddingCodeWithEthiopianAmharicForVistaAndXP.aspx

Rhymes with Amharic #4 (a.k.a. we're all [sub]set so turning out the lights and going to [em]bed!)

Sorting It All Out — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 04:45:35 GMT

(see also parts 1 , 2 , and 3 ) OK, we are getting close to the end of this little mini-series.... First

Rhymes with Amharic #5 (a.k.a. [Sub]setting up this code where it can do the most good?)

Sorting It All Out — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 19:21:17 GMT

I may never be entirely used to working for Microsoft, as opposed to working with Microsoft products....

re: Rhymes with Amharic (a.k.a. How about a little breakfast embed, dear?)

Yosias — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:38:59 GMT

Greetings here in Addis we have heard of Vista but very few use it. So what is the use ny friends? XP is what most have loaded but we want the Vista feature of locale and Ethiopic font back loaded into XP. Otherwise it is loading another keyboard software such as Keyman etc...Is it possible I do not know much about Locales and all but whatever that wachamacallit in Vista that does all the Ethiopic stuf to be ripped out from VIsta and loaded into XP? HELP

re: Rhymes with Amharic (a.k.a. How about a little breakfast embed, dear?)

Michael S. Kaplan — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:54:52 GMT

Hi Yosias,

I hate to say it, but upgrading does have its privileges. And support of custom locales was a ton of work which as far as I know there are no plans to backport. Maybe it is worth looking into a copy of Vista?

re: Rhymes with Amharic (a.k.a. How about a little breakfast embed, dear?)

Yosias — Wed, 30 May 2007 12:10:21 GMT

Greeting Michael

Thank you for your response. Yes definitely I agree with you in that upgrading to Vista does have its privileges. But upgrading is not an option for most here in Addis (Ethiopia). I invite you to come and see for yourself what I mean, the hardware situation in Addis and elsewhere unless it is some big business most common folks at least 70% use XP and the rest use Win 95, 98, Win2k, seriously. So if Microsoft really wants to serve the needs of folks here in Addis (Ethiopia) they definitely have to plan according to these numbers, I would say. Do you agree? It sure would be nice if they thougt about backporting.

Thanks again!

re: Rhymes with Amharic (a.k.a. How about a little breakfast embed, dear?)

Michael S. Kaplan — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:33:27 GMT

I am not on the NLS team anymore, so I can't say what the backport decision would be, for sure. But I know what the cost would be, so I know it is unlikely....

Given what it would break to add things like collation support downlevel, I can't say I agree (breaking active directory worldwide to enable a small market to not have to buy a new OS is a high price to pay!).

But the whole point of this post is that a developer can use the knowledge to create an application that uses a script such as Ethiopic and propely display the strings -- it is an enabling post!

Font Embedding in Windows Forms

Venkatarangan's Blog [வெங்கடரங்கன் வலைப்பதிவு] — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:21:31 GMT

SiaO as The Red Carpet (aka Characters just want to be seen)

Sorting It All Out — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:05:57 GMT

Over in the Suggestion Box, Doug asks: Hi Michael, Your posts include a "This post brought to you by"

re: Rhymes with Amharic (a.k.a. How about a little breakfast embed, dear?)

abebe — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:42:32 GMT

i have give to the letter ih amharic.