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title: "What kinds of fonts are supported with Silverlight?"  
description: "What kinds of fonts are supported with Silverlight?"  
author: "James Smith"  
published: 2011-05-23  
updated: 2020-09-15  
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category: "silverlight"  
tags: ["silverlight"]  
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# What kinds of fonts are supported with Silverlight?

Beyond standard and western fonts, Silverlight also supports East Asian characters, double-byte characters, and can work with any East Asian font or Middle Eastern font by using the glyphs element and a supporting TrueType font file that supports the requested glyph. \

## Answers

### Answer by James Smith

Beyond standard and western fonts, Silverlight also supports East Asian characters, double-byte characters, and can work with any East Asian font or Middle Eastern font by using the glyphs element and a supporting TrueType font file that supports the requested glyph. \


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