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How to determine if a font is a character font?

Given HFONT, how to determine if it is a character font? The pdf library I use requires character font handling differently, so I need a way to programmatically determine if any given font is a character font or not.

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Use GetObject to get font properties in the LOGFONT structure. Check lfCharSet member; if it is SYMBOL_CHARSET, you have a character font.

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Answer Mark Ransom will work 99.999% of the time, but there is a theoretical possibility that it might give the wrong answer.

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