how can I change the font for CEikRichTextEditor

Thanks for your quick reply.

I see the mistake I made, by searching the internet, I do not find the facename of the chinese.gdr. I am now trying to find another font along with its facename. Besides, I will take your advice and try to use the CGlobalText::SetGlobalCharFormat.

I will let you know how it goes. Thanks again : )

Oh, that's wonderful.

Actually, as I am using a phone bought in EU, so there is no chinese font installed for sure. The chinese font inside the phone are installed by installing an sis application, which allows the pen to write chinese characters. By using the Fontviewer, it shows me:
Chinese Calendar
FixedHeight - FixedWidth

and I am wondering whether it is the facename of the chinese.gdr. As I am not in the company, I am not able to test it today. I will let you know tomorrow.

Besides, I found the code to print the facename in NewLC, as follows.

http://www.newlc.com/topic-16251

I will try that as well. Now I am a little more confident that things are going to work. Thanks

Hi René,

Now i back to work from the holiday. And I replace the code
_LIT(chineseFont, "Chinese Calendar");
and it works now. So the Chinese Calendar is the facename of the font.

Now I encounter another problem about the descriptor. The code is as follows:

void CSMS4CCR2AppUi:: ShowTextL(CEikEdwin& aTextControl)
{
aTextControl.Text()->Reset();
RFileBuf fileBuf;
fullPath.Copy(KFilename); //give the file name
GetFullPathName(fullPath); //combine the filename and path
if(fileBuf.Open(iEikonEnv->FsSession(),fullPath,EFileRead) == EFileRead)
{
CleanupClosePushL(fileBuf);
RReadStream input(&fileBuf);
CleanupClosePushL(input);

CPlainText::TImportExportParam params;
params.iGuessForeignEncoding = ETrue;
CPlainText::TImportExportResult result;
TRAPD(error, aTextControl.Text()->ImportTextL(0,input,params,result));
if(error != KErrNone)
{
UpdateInstruction(_L("Importtext fails!"));
}
//aTextControl.Text()->Extract(fullPath,12);

CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy(2); // input, fileBuf

//aTextControl.SetTextL(&*fullPath);

HBufC *text = NULL;
text=aTextControl.GetTextInHBufL();
//text=aTextControl.Text();

aTextControl.SetTextL(text);

aTextControl.NotifyNewDocumentL(); // Formats and draws a new document, updates scrollbars if necessary
aTextControl.UpdateAllFieldsL(); // Updates all the fields in the document
delete text;
}
else
{
UpdateInstruction(_L("cannot find file"));
}
}

As I have some chinese characters in the txt file(in utf8 format), I tried ConverToUnicode and it's not working. It works with me now by using ImportTextL which convert the characters internally.
What i want now is to get the aTextControl.Text() into an descriptor and pass some of them to the function aTextControl.SetTextL(const TDesC* aDes).
For example, there are 5 chars in the descriptor and I only want the 3rd char.
Can you help me with that? I am not good at descriptor at all.

Hi René,

Thanks for your quick reply.

I have get all the converted chars by the code

aTextControl.Text()->Extract(fullPath,0);

Then I show one char by using the method you suggest and it works.
aTextControl.SetTextL(&fullPath.Mid(12,1));

Now the question is to show the 2nd and 5th character at one line.
For example, I need to show fullPath.Mid(2,1) and fullPath.Mid(5,1) at one line. So the combine of the characters shall be done.

Do you have better solution to use?

So far, I solve it by declare another TBuf <50> testString;
testString.Append(fullPath[2]);
testString.Append(fullPath[5]);
aTextControl.SetTextL(&testString);