ID Number: Q72020
3.00
WINDOWS
Summary:
There are three stroke fonts packaged with Windows version 3.00:
Roman, Script, and Modern. These fonts are marked as belonging to the
OEM character set when, in fact, they belong to the ANSI character
set.
The OEM character set is the character set used by the hardware device
on which Windows is running (for example, the IBM PC). The IBM PC OEM
character set is listed on page D-1 of the "Microsoft Windows Software
Development Kit Reference Volume 2." The ANSI character set is listed
on page D-2 of that volume.
The fonts were marked in this manner for two reasons. First, in
previous versions of Windows, the stroke fonts did include non-ANSI
characters. Second, mismarking the character set ensures proper font
mapping. The character-set attribute of a font is assigned a very high
penalty weight in the font mapping scheme. If stroke fonts were not
marked as using the OEM character set, a stroke font might be chosen
by the font mapper [during a SelectObject() call] instead of a raster
font when a requested raster font size is not available. This behavior
occurs because most raster fonts belong to the ANSI character set,
character size has much lower penalty weight than character set, and
stroke fonts can be scaled to any desired size. Some raster fonts can
be scaled; however, they can be scaled only to specific sizes.