WPF dialog and FontFamily "MS Shell Dlg 2" on Windows 10 (1511, 10586)

Hi Michael,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

We have a dedicated team to help you with this type of issues. I suggest you to post the same in the below forums.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/56fe8c36-5260-434d-b9fe-a8d6b2c7f014/change-of-ms-shell-dlg-2-and-ms-shell-dlg-fonts-disturbs-gui-of-date-and-time-properties?forum=itproxpsp

Thanks.

I do not understand why you have suggested posting to a Windows XP forum.   It has only started happening since updating to Windows 10 version 1511, build 10586.   It does not happen with Windows 10 build 10240.

The OP had the problem with  FontFamily="MS Shell Dlg 2".   I have the same problem using WPF with FontFamily "Segoe SemiBold".   It does not happen with FontFamily "Segoe WP Semibold"

Regards, David Lewis.

Hello Anil,

The problem happens on WPF user interface only. No problem on MFC UI.

It looks like WPF doesn't honor the registry setting [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes]. But it does impact MFC UI. The link you posted doesn't help to the problem.

Thanks,

-Michael

We've also seen this problem with a variant of the Museo font. This seems to have affected Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and Russian languages for us, and appears to be due to a GlobalUserInterface.CompositeFont change in Windows 10586.

I've submitted a bug report here: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/2128921/wpf-globaluserinterface-fontfamily-fallbacks-missing-for-unicode-blocks