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Font Aliasing on Windows Platforms

There may be situations where you create an application with a specific font but find that a different font is being used when you run that application. You are most likely to encounter this problems when using an English font (such as MS Sans Serif or Arial) in a non-Western European environment. This occurs because Oracle Forms checks to see if the character set associated with the font matches the character set specified by the language environment variable. If the two do not match, Oracle Forms automatically substitutes the font with another font whose associated character set matches the character set specified by the language environment variable. This automatic substitution assures that the data being returned from the database gets displayed correctly in the application.

Note: If you enter local characters using an English font, Windows does an implicit association with another font.

There may be cases, however, where you do not want this substitution to take place. You can avoid this substitution by mapping all desired fonts to the WE8ISO8859P1 character set in the font alias file. For example, if you are unable to use the Arial font in your application, add the following line to your font alias file:

Arial.....=Arial...WE8ISO8859P1


Developer_NLS_Lang and User_NLS_Lang Environment Variables