I need pixel width of string containing russian characters

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Need an API to calculate pixel width of string containing Russian characters.
System is supporting Russian language and while typing cursor does not moves since not able to get pixel width.

What I have tried:

GetTextExtentPoint32 not working for Russian since Arial is not the font

Posted 31-Jul-19 22:52pm

Nikhil Siemens

Updated 1-Aug-19 2:36am

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Richard MacCutchan 1-Aug-19 5:06am

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KarstenK · Answer 1 · 2019-08-01T02:36:00

Solution 1

This shouldnt be the problem. Take a look at this Microsoft example code.

Posted 1-Aug-19 2:36am

KarstenK