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   JJ to Glenn Knickerbocker   
   Re: What fallback font is being used?   
   28 Dec 12 23:00:52   
   
   From: jaejunks@nah.meh   
      
   Glenn Knickerbocker  wrote:   
   > Thanks.  What I'm after is not the method but the result:  Once the   
   > text has been displayed on the screen, is there a way I can find out   
   > what fonts were actually used?   
      
   No, unfortunately. The result of the chosen font is not exposed to   
   applications. i.e.: there's no function to retrieve that information, or at   
   least, it's undocumented. So the applications would still see e.g.: Arial,   
   even though the actual character is drawn using different font. That's the   
   disadvantage for applications that rely on the Windows default font   
   rendering engine.   
      
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