persian font not applied in android WebView - android

I have html content (combined Persian an English text) with attached css, all css style applied correctly but font.
The css have fontface like this:
#font-face{
font-family: 'BYekan';
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
src: url(../Fonts/BYekan.ttf);
}
the font only applied to english text and not the persian. the font is a standard ttf persian font (BYekan.ttf) so nothings wrong with it.
I googled a lot and almost every body said it's a bug in WebView android > 3.0, the problem still exist in android 4.
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=38536
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/persian-computing/4Fm7JfiOkJk
The only workaround that I found is using svg fonts instead, but this does not work for me either.
Custom font for webview
So how can I solve this?
note1: this question probobly asked alot, like this:
Persian #font-face doesn't work in Chrome, Bug or not?
but it's an old question and the given advice not working anymore (at least for me).
note2: When I open the page in chrome desktop browser font applied correctly.

i have found the workaround
try these font faces
#font-face {
font-family: 'yekan’;
src:url('fonts/yekan.eot?#’) format(‘eot’),
url('fonts/yekan.woff') format('woff'),
url(‘fonts/yekan.ttf’) format(‘truetype’);
}
IMO use SVG font for persian language

I've converted the mentioned font in your question and uploaded it in the following Internet address:
bYekan Web Font Package
Also, You must use the following Style Lines:
#font-face {
font-family: 'BYekan';
src: url('../Fonts/byekan-webfont.eot');
src: url('../Fonts/byekan-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'), url('../Fonts/byekan-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), url('../Fonts/byekan-webfont.woff') format('woff'), url('../Fonts/byekan-webfont.svg#BYekan') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
and, you should add the following lines in the .htaccess file:
AddType application/vnd.ms-fontobject .eot
AddType font/ttf .ttf
AddType font/otf .otf
AddType application/x-font-woff .woff

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