Localization: How to map culture info to a script name or Unicode character range?

Question

I need some information about localization. I am using .net 2.0 with C# 2.0 which takes care of most of the localization related issues. However, I need to manually draw the

Answer 1

Proto, wait! There's a much more accurate solution. It's an unmanaged on hance you may have to P/Invoke.

GetLocaleInfoW(MAKELCID(wLangId, SORT_DEFAULT), LOCALE_FONTSIGNATURE, wcBuf, MAXWCBUF);

This gives you a LOCALESIGNATURE stucture. The anwer is in the lsUsb field: Unicode subsets bitfield. Rats! the MS page for this structure is empty. But look it up in your MSDN copy. It's fully documented there: A whole set of flags that describe which scripts are spported. And yes, there's a flag for Tamil ;-)

HTH.

EDIT: Oops! Hadn't seen Shawne's answer. Wow! Answer from an in-house expert! ;-) Anyway, you may still be interested in a Pre-Vista compatible answer.