Font linking for a unicode string

[xusword]

Hi All

I am using a pdf generating library. It requires me to provide a font whenever I am printing a string in the pdf document. The problem is that the string that will be printed is the user input from a textbox and I may have to select different font for different language input.

I have found some information about font linking here

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb688134.aspx

but I am not sure if there is a C# way of doing this. Does anyone know how?

thanks

[HanneSThEGreaT]

If you provide a means for the user to type in, why not provide a means of selecting a particular font - iow, FontDialog ¿

[xusword]

If you provide a means for the user to type in, why not provide a means of selecting a particular font - iow, FontDialog ¿

Thanks for your reply

This is the new functionality I have to provide base on an old interface. They are not interested on adding a new control for selecting font. Pluse, text boxes would automatically use font mapping. So, if the user type Chinese font, textBox.Font may be "Microsoft Sans Serif" but the font being displayed may be some chinese font (whatever it is on the register map "Microsoft Sans Serif" to)

Because of those reasons, that would not solve my problem

[mariocatch]

What you want is the MaskedTextBox.

Some links to get you started:
http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/...AndArabic.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...edtextbox.aspx

The arabic link, although written for making a TextBox work in Arabic, has specific instructions on how to use the MaskedTextBox control for a specific language/culture setting.