Like the IMLangFontLink interface, this interface implements a set of services that enable an application to use font linking.
IMLangFontLink2 Methods
CodePageToScriptID Retrieves the script identifier associated with a code page. GetFontCodePages Retrieves the set of code pages whose characters can be output by the given font on the given device context. GetFontUnicodeRanges Retrieves information about which Unicode characters are supported by a font. GetScriptFontInfo Retrieves the font information for the specified script. MapFont Creates a font to output the characters from the given set of code pages. ReleaseFont Releases a font object created by the IMLangFontLink2::MapFont method. ResetFontMapping Clears the font cache that is used to store fonts created by IMLangFontLink2::MapFont.
Interface Information
Implementation MultiLanguage Object (Mlang.dll) Inherits from IUnknown Header and IDL files Mlang.h, Mlang.idl Minimum availability Internet Explorer 5 Minimum operating systems Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0
Windows CE
Windows CE Use version 2.12 and later Minimum availability Internet Explorer 4.0
Remarks
This interface enables an application to utilize font linking. Font linking is a term used to describe the process of automatic font switching based on the character code values of the text stream to be rendered. For example, characters for Hebrew and Japanese are not likely included in a single font. The services provided by this interface would allow a client to switch between a Hebrew font and a Japanese font to output a string containing characters from both languages. IMLangFontLink does this by creating custom fonts and providing an underlying font cache in the implementation.