| Introduction
Due to the different character mapping requirements, these applications who utilize
extended character set (these characters which has a value greater than 127) often
have problems running under a double-byte Windows system (Japanese, Korean, Simplified
Chinese and Traditional Chinese). Fonts, as a special kind of software, are no
exception. Based on our research, this issue exists on all major barcode font
products designed in western countries. In countries such as Japan, the price
of the localized version is very comparatively high and they can not be used in
other double-byte platforms.
After deep research into the Windows Kernel, our development engineers conceived
a solution allowing our customers universally apply the barcode fonts on any
language platforms, i.e. this double-byte version of the barcode fonts can be
used not only under Japanese and Chinese systems, but also under any single-byte
language systems. We have thoroughly tested the solution on single byte Windows
platforms (English, French, Spanish etc.) as well as all major double byte platforms
(Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese). With this set
of the fonts you are able to write applications targeting the whole world.
Note that you do not need to worry about this issue if the fonts do not utilize
extended character set. Most of our Fontware products do not need any modification
to run on a double-byte platform. The following products, however, do need double-byte
versions if you plan to run on a double-byte language system:
Morovia Code128 Fontware
Morovia Interleaved 2 of 5 Fontware
Morovia UPC/EAN/Bookland Fontware
If you need to working with these three symbologies in a double-byte environment,
you need to purchase double-byte versions (also called Asian versions) of the
product instead.
Changes
There are a couple of changes on top of the single-bye Fontware products. First,
we added character mappings for each double-byte language so they still generate
barcode other than garbage characters under a double-byte language system. To
accommodate the mapping change, we augmented the Font Tools by adding several
functions. You must use the new functions (dubbed as Asian functions) to get
the results. Fro details please read on this article.
Better than these local products targeting one specified Asian language, our
products target all double-byte languages. They can run on all single-byte platforms
too.
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