East Asian Fonts Considerations
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8/28/2008
Windows Embedded CE supports application development in both Western and East Asian fonts and locales. Windows Embedded CE is based on a Unicode standard, and includes National Language Support (NLS) to help you create effectively globalized software. The Unicode standard defines codes for most major languages written today, including Japanese Kana, the complete set of modern Korean Hangul, and a unified set of Chinese/Japanese/Korean ideographs. In addition, Windows Embedded CE provides numerous fonts to help you create applications with the visual characteristics you want.
The following list shows some of the special font and character display functionality that is of particular interest for developing East Asian software: