Windows - fallback fonts

Windows
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Does anyone know how to get fallback fonts working:

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I’ve tried setting the fallback font to Arial Unicode MS which I’ve installed and it doesn’t help!

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it only works correctly with TextLayout and when using system font (non custom font).
In that case no need to use the explicit fallback font though.

In our software, we use a custom font but I detect if there are “strange” char in the text and in that case use a default font so the fallback used by TextLayout works…

static bool canBeRepresented(juce::StringRef text)
{
  for (auto t = text.text; !t.isEmpty();)
  {
    auto c = t.getAndAdvance();
    if (!(c < 0x024f || (c >= 0x2000 && c < 0x20d0))) // latin char and punctuation
      return false;
   }
   return true;
}

I wouldn’t mind seing this cleaned :slight_smile:

3

Yeah, because I’ve just found a bug in TextLayout as well which we’ve just moved away from. So I need to be using the default font entirely and just TextLayout. What are you using to detect unusual characters?

4

I ve updated my post

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Wonder if i can hack this so TextEditor works as well.

6

Did you ever find a solution for this?

We’ve found a similar issue where Korean, Chinese, Japanese, etc. aren’t being rendered at all on windows - we’re not even getting the palceholder [] characters! We’re using Nunito Sans which doesn’t have glyphs for those languages, but on macOS it is using some sort of fallback.

Using juce::Font::setFallbackFontName() with a font known to be installed on the system didn’t have any effect.