With some EMF files a question mark appears instead of a special character. Is that a bug in DynaPDF?
No. Strings are always stored in Unicode format inside of EMF files, even if they only contain ANSI characters. DynaPDF uses the character set, which was used in the ExtCreateFont() record, to determine whether the string can be printed in ANSI or Unicode format. The character set is often wrongly set, e.g. Unicode is required but ANSI_CHARSET is set, that is why a question mark appears then instead of the special character. Conversion of strings to ANSI can be disabled with the flag mfUseUnicode (see SetMetaConvFlags() in the help file), this enables printing of special characters even if a incorrect character set was used. However, it is better to set character set correctly instead of printing all strings in Unicode format, because the ANSI format is more compact. BTW – GDI uses the character set for font selection only, it is not used to display characters on screen.
