I want to display the both Hindi and English font in single text object

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hi...

my problem is i want to display both Hindi and English font together in a single text object...
the data is retrieved from Database in detail section...

is there any font which supports both Hindi and English font for single text object...

i have the text like this (हिमाचल प्रदेश Himachal Pradesh) .. if i select the font as Mangal then

the english letter will be displayed as boxes ... and if i select the font as arial the hindi letter

will will be displayed as boxes ...

The whole text is a single string...

help me...

Posted 5-Jun-11 19:58pm

vinu.1111

Updated 11-Jul-18 10:30am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-05T20:13:00

Solution 1

To start with, there is no such thing as Hindi font or English font! It's all Unicode, and there are fonts supporting some sub-sets of code points, scripts. There is even no such script as Hindi, there is Devanagari script (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari[^]) which is used in a number of Indian languages.

You just need a font which support Devanagari. Use standard application "Character Map" bundled with all versions of Windows. One font which certainly support Devanagari and ASCII (if Mangal does not, what's the use of such font?) is "Arial Unicode MS".

—SA

Posted 5-Jun-11 20:13pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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thatraja 7-Jun-11 0:15am

You beat me to it. 5!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Jun-11 0:42am

Thank you Raja. I feel uncomfortable as I had to explain to people from India about Devanagari and other scripts and how they are related to languages (Devanagari along supports over 20 most used languages, according to Wikipedia), but it happened few times here already. When it happened for the first-second time, I noted that your native culture deserved more respect. If I mentioned, for example, Russian, Belarusian, Ukranian or Bulgarian "font", software developers familiar with languages would laugh at me...
--SA

thatraja 7-Jun-11 4:39am

Agree, May be some of the OPs don't know about that. But after some time they will.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Jun-11 15:51pm

Hope so.
Thank you.
--SA

vinu.1111 9-Jun-11 6:01am

hi... SAKryukov thanks for the reply..
the above didn't worked for me.. :-(
but i have one idea
suppose consider a word "Hindi(हिन्दी)good" consider that as a full word
now what we can do is we can apply Arial Font for Whole word based on condition it should change the font..
like if(text = '(' )
then font = mangal upto this ')'
else Arial ...
but how to write formula .. i dont know .. help me

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 12-Jun-11 18:30pm

If your problem is not solved yet, please explain it -- I'll try to answer (right now I don't see where is the problem).
You can use "Arial Unicode MS" for both languages.
If it finally works for you, please accept the answer (green button).
Thank you.
--SA

[no name] 12-Jun-11 18:48pm

Oh yeas "god of knowlegde" ask for the green button! Please press it if he asks for it, he is never wrong!

vinu.1111 13-Jun-11 0:30am

hi... SAKryukov thanks for the solution... i got it..
it working fine in windows XP but it is
not working in windows server 2008 :-( ... what to do... :-(
i have hosted a simple application in that it is not working
IIS 7 help me...

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Jun-11 1:52am

Wait, wait... It's not about OS (they all support Unicode since early NT), but about configuration you run, in particular, installed fonts. Check it up. I believe you can install fonts taken from XP to Win Server 2008.

But... do you really run client part or UI on Win Server 2008? Why? Just asking...
--SA

vinu.1111 20-Jun-11 0:51am

i got it...
just install unicode font that solve..
thank u .. :-)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Jun-11 1:20am

Yep. You're very welcome.
Good luck, call again.
--SA

ujjwal uniyal 10-Sep-13 3:58am

what font did u installed ??? i already have arial unicode ms installed in my windows server 2008. but when i am trying to print the report it's says error while trying to render the report . however if the font is changed to times new roman or Georgia then it is letting me print. :'(

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 10-Sep-13 10:36am

I never installed any font. After all, make any CodeProject post and type some Devanagari in it. Can you see that it is displayed correctly? Devanagari is just supported by default on most modern systems. Run charmap.exe (Windows "Character Map", bundled with all Windows versions) and see what's in there...
—SA

ujjwal uniyal 10-Sep-13 12:37pm

Actually i was asking that question to vinu.1111 but it's better that i got a rply from the expert. please help me out. i have an rdlc report. i set the font of all the columns of the table in it to arial unicode ms. it's showing me data but when i print it or preview it , it says error occurred while rendering the report . however if i change the font to georgia it's working fine. i have data saved in database in unicode that's why i tried using arial unicode ms. i am unable to solve this problem. :'(

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 10-Sep-13 12:39pm

This problem is unrelated to the font directly. I cannot say what's wrong without seeing your code...
—SA

ujjwal uniyal 10-Sep-13 12:44pm

code is simple filling data into dataset and then using dataset to fill the data in the report. report is working fine and printing when font is georgia or some other but when font is changed to arial unicode ms and then if i print it or preview it it's giving me this error. As the text is in unicode so georgia is not spelling it correctly.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 10-Sep-13 13:09pm

Okay, not exception information, not code (simple or not)? How anyone is supposed to find out what's going on?
Are you sure that when you change font, and nothing else, exception appears?
—SA

ujjwal uniyal 10-Sep-13 13:20pm

yes. it only happens when i change the font. it font is georgia then i can see , preview and print the report but if it's arial unicode ms then i can see the report but can't preview it or print it.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 10-Sep-13 13:23pm

Still, not exception information, no code sample. Well, try to write a possible simplest prototype focused only on this problem. This way, you would locate the problem. In worst case, you will be able to post this small code and ask for help...
—SA

ujjwal uniyal 10-Sep-13 13:29pm

it says an error occured while trying to render the report [0x80004005]. i googled it but no solution was given that can solve this problem .yeah i have posted a question about this error.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 10-Sep-13 22:02pm

Georgia does not include Devanagari, but with Charmap.exe I found few other fonts which do (Arial is pretty ugly, you know). Did you try it out?
—SA

ajitkadam 3-Feb-14 0:50am

Mangal is not set on a xp some time

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 3-Feb-14 1:10am

Why would you need it?
—SA