How to draw Wingdings 2 characters outside of the 0..255 range in .NET?

Question

The standard windows Charmap utility shows quite a few characters in the "Wingdings 2" font whose character codes are greater than 255 - for example, 0xE4E shows a hand.

However, if I try to draw these characters as follows:

g.DrawString(new string((char) 0xE4E, 1), new Font("Wingdings 2", 20), brush, x, y);

then all I get is a standard "box" replacement character. This is weird, because the above code works for Wingdings 2 symbols between 0x21 and 0xFF, and also works for ALL symbols in, say, Arial Unicode MS.

How can I draw those characters from this particular font? Is there a separate API?

(Win7; .NET 3.5 SP1)

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P.S. Here's the weird Character Map font with the duplicated character ranges:

Answer 1

No, there is no special API, nor is the fonts special per se. Wingdings et al. just don't use the "expected" glyphs for the character codes

However, I don't see that character in Charmap with that character code for that font (Win 7). If you're thinking of the character I think you're thinking of, it's just 0x4E.

Answer 2

In my CharMap (Vista), WinDings 2 only goes as far as 0xFF

So your code is good, you (char)codes are in doubt.