Say, if I want to create a font: Code: LOGFONT lf = {0}; lf.lfHeight = 12; lf.lfWeight = FW_THIN; VERIFY(StringCchCopy(lf.lfFaceName, sizeof(lf.lfFaceName) / sizeof(lf.lfFaceName[0]), _T("Calibri")) == S_OK); HFONT hFont = CreateFontIndirect(&lf); if(!hFont) { //Font created OK } If I specify pretty much any name as lfFaceName CreateFontIndirect() returns a handle anyway. My understanding was that it will return NULL if it can't create that exact font. Am I correct on that one? PS. I'm running this code on Windows 7, so maybe they added some fail-safe mechanism for it already... PS 2. I'm kind of confused over this statement: I do not have a machine with East Asian languages, nor that I can speak those languages. What would be the correct way to create a font on those machines? The strategy I thought of is to try to create a font that I want, say, "Calibri", and if it can't be created (if it's not installed), try some basic font, like "Arial" for instance. But again, CreateFontIndirect seems to return a handle for any font type name I specify for it.
