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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: What type of font is it?
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Date: 10 Sep 90 13:00:09 GMT
Organization: McDonnell Douglas M&E, Cypress CA
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If I allow a user to set an environment variable to specify a font for use
by my program, is it possible to figure out whether this font is a two-byte
or extended-ascii of simply 7-bit ascii character set?

Barry