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Internet Explorer 6 determines default font information by examining registry values beneath a key that contains the locale's script ID. Registry settings for script IDs are located under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\International\Scriptskey. Script IDs enable MSHTML to determine which font is used to render characters for a given language. Earlier versions of Internet Explorer obtained default font information for a particular locale by examining values beneath a registry key that contained the locale's code page.

For more information about MLang registry settings, including those that control Internet Explorer 6 international information, see Internet Explorer Multiple-Language API Registry Settings.

The following table shows the script IDs with a description of the purpose for each.

Script ID Description

0

Default

1

Merge

2

Asciisym

3

Latin based

4

Latin

5

Greek

6

Cyrillic

7

Armenian

8

Hebrew

9

Arabic

10

Devanagari

11

Bengali

12

Gurmukhi

13

Gujarati

14

Oriya

15

Tamil

16

Telugu

17

Kannada

18

Malayalam

19

Thai

20

Lao

21

Tibetan

22

Georgian

23

Korean

24

Japanese

25

Chinese Traditional

26

Chinese Simplified

27

Ethiopic

28

Canadian Syllabic

29

Cherokee

30

Yi

31

Braille

32

Runic

33

Ogham

34

Sinhala

35

Syriac

36

Myanmar

37

Khmer

38

Thaana

39

Mongolian

40

Default
Note:
Windows Mobile does not support all of the Script IDs that are listed in the preceding table. For information about the supported languages, see Language Identifiers and Locales.

The following table shows a mapping between some code pages and their corresponding script ID values.

Code page Script ID

874 (Thai)

19 (Thai)

932 (Japanese - Shift JIS)

24 (Kana)

936 (Chinese - PRC)

26 (Han)

949 (Korean)

23 (Hangul)

950 (Chinese - Taiwan)

25 (Bopomofo)

1200 (UCS-2)

3 (ASCII Latin)

1250 (East European)

3 (ASCII Latin)

1251 (Russian)

6 (Cyrillic)

1252 (ANSI)

3 (ASCII Latin)

1253 (Greek)

5 (Greek)

1254 (Turkish)

3 (ASCII Latin)

1255 (Hebrew)

8 (Hebrew)

1256 (Arabic)

9 (Arabic)

1257 (Baltic)

3 (ASCII Latin)

1258 (Vietnamese)

3 (ASCII Latin)

The preceding table explains, for example, that information about Chinese fonts that used to be located in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\International\950key is now located in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\International\Scripts\25key.

To configure the font characteristics, you can change the registry values for this key.

The following example code shows the registry value settings for Chinese (Taiwan) fonts.

Copy Code 
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\International\Scripts\25]
"IEFontSize"=hex:02,00,00,00
"IEFixedFontName"="MingLiu"
"IEPropFontName"="MingLiu"

In the preceding example, IEFontSizeis the value that specifies the font size for the given language. IEFontSizevalue corresponds to font size set in the browser. For example, to specify the font size that corresponds to "Small" in the browser, set "IEFontSize"=hex:02,00,00,00. IEFixedFontNameis a string value that specifies the default fixed-width font. IEPropFontNameis a string value that specifies the default proportional-width font.

When Internet Explorer uses code pages to determine font information, you can specify a default code page for a given language by setting the Default_CodePagevalue, located under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Internationalregistry key.

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