I found there is a font called “Default User Interface” in the font list of Notes Designer.
Is there anyone know what it actually is? And also, what are its features?
Subject: Any idea about the font: Default User Interface?
It is exactly what it says it is – affecting certain parts of Notes’ user interface. For example, close Notes, in notes.ini set StaticFont3=Comic Sans MS, and restart Notes to see what happens. A user might use this setting, for example, to be able to read multilingual text in the user interface. If you use Default User Interface in your design, you know that the font will match each user’s preferred interface font. This might make your design look better on different machines.
Subject: RE: Any idea about the font: Default User Interface?
Thanks for replying!I found that if I use “Default User Interface” in my design, it can accept and present text in any language.
That means, even I am using a Traditional Chinese Notes Client, I can still paste Japanese, Simplified Chinese, etc. into a field with a font setting “Default User Interface”. And, that can have the text presented exactly too. That’s fantastic!
Is there anyone know what exactly the font “Default User Interface” is? Is it the best solution for multilingual designs? And, does it have any limitation?
Subject: RE: Any idea about the font: Default User Interface?
The best solution for multilingual designs is Default MultiLingual, of course. You might find that some other font works on your machine, but that does not mean it works on every user’s machine. Even Default MultiLingual does not work on every user’s machine, but it gives you a better chance.The C API Reference says that Default UserInterface is Arial. A StaticFont2 setting in notes.ini can change it to some other font.
Another limitation of using a single font for Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Japanese is that the font uses unified characters. A few characters traditonally look different in these three languages. But these characters look exactly the same when they are unified by the font. In some cases you might want to use an appropriate font for each language, so that users find the text easier to read.