Calculating the positions of glyphs in Windows
问题 Is there any simple and compatible GDI or .NET accessible subsystem of Windows that will give glyph position characters. The task here is the combining symbols such as those in Arabic which sometimes have chains of multiple combining symbols stacking on top of each others such as Arabic Fatha + Arabic Letter Superscript Alef + Arabic Maddah Above. The trouble is that though the X positions can be determined precisely with GDI GetCharacterPlacement, the Y position calculations which are