I am using unicode characters in my android application. When I run the application in emulator it works fine but when I run it in real devices, the unicode characters are not displayed. I know the unicode font is missing in my real device, but what I wanna know is that how to include the unicode font in my package so that it will be included when I install it wherever I want. I saw some samples of putting your font in the assets folder and changing the typeface of every component in the application. But, I need a simpler solution.
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How can I know whether an unicode (\u263a) will displayed well in an Android device. I use robotto thin font (bundled together with APK). The character displayed well in my Nexus S 4.0, but not emulator 2.3
For instance, if ☺ cannot displayed well in an Android device, I will replace it with :)
In farsi letters are attach together to form writing scripts. However when I save HTML pages using "UTF-8" or "Windows-1256" encdoings, and try to display them using webview in android, letters are diplayed seperately and in left-to-right direction (instead of RTL).
I should notice that this case is not happening in phones supporting farsi.
Correct form should be like this (snapshot from phone supporting farsi):
Bad-formed text happens in phones not supporing farsi (Persian):
It should be noticed i've used persian font in both cases.
I also see some solutions for normal Strings in java which changes character on by one in this
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My question: Can i fix this cases (or it should be fix by phone vendors)? if possible what is solution?
I hit this bug a lot when I was doing keyboards. The problem is that the build in canvas.drawText function in Android didn't support RTL languages. There was a patch for it, but it wasn't part of the default build of Android. So only models going out to those parts of the world that used it tended to have it. Unfortunately I know of no way to test whether it has the patch. And if it doesn't, there's no way to fix it. You could try reversing the text, but then you'd break devices which did have the patch.
Long story short- there is no way to fix it. However, I'd be shocked if Google hasn't picked up the patch in mainline by now (it existed back in the 2.2 days), so its a shrinking number of phones effected.
You can try making html with reverse font sequence! just write a windows app to get font and deliver reverse one, and use it in your android device
I created an android phonegap application which displays information in multiple languages like Hindi, Fijian, etc. Hindi language content displays properly in properly in emulator but it is not working on actual android device. It displays a small square box.
I'll explain the steps:
I used web font converter and converted de.ttf, it generated 3 files.
I copied all theses files to folder named "font" in my project directory.
I added font-face in css.
I called the font-face in a div and added Hindi text.
Thanks in advance.
I am guessing Android emulator does not display Hindi font answer shows the issue.
Problem with Hindi keyboard on Android 2.3 emulator is another duplicate.
From what I understand the Hindi is not implemented fully in older phones. It likely works in your emulator due to your emulator's operating system version being higher than the phone. I suggest you change create a new emulator image with the same version as phone and test it. If it does not work on emulator then bump the OS version up until it does. This will have to be your apps minimum OS version.
If for some reason at the same version the text does display correctly, then something else is going on.
According to this Azerbaijani language is not supported by Android 2.2 - however they claim "Note: Android supports more locales than are listed above.".
So how it is actually ? Is there support for Azerbaijani language? Are there issues writing applicaiton which have to display text in Azerbaijani?
Try just writing a test application that just displays some Azerbaijani text in Unicode. If it looks right, then your Android device has a Unicode font that includes the characters used in Azerbaijani.
If the text is not rendered correctly, then your problem will be adding the right font. On Mac OS X you would just drag-and-drop a font file into the right folder, but on Android you will need it installed in the operating system's display server. That might not be possible if you want to run on handsets that are locked down by their manufacturer.
If the font isn't there, maybe you can find a good Open Source Unicode font for Azerbaijani. File a feature request with the Android developers to get the font into the next release of Android. Unfortunately you'll have to wait a long time and will only work with recent releases.
If you're really desperate and you're willing to go to a lot of effort, you could build a font rendering engine into your application. I don't think that has to be as hard as it sounds. Then you will be able to run on any Android release and you won't have to wait around for the handset manufacturers to pick up the response to your feature request.
Locale.getAvailableLocales()
That method returns an array of all supported locales.
I have local HTML files with hebrew text that I'm trying to display on a webview in the android emulator but I only get squares and not the actual text.
I guess it's got to do with fonts not being supported.
Is there any way to display non latin text on the emulator?
Thanks!
Hope this helps:
How To Setup Hebrew Font in Android Emulator
If it's simply an issue of missing fonts, you might try DejaVu fonts (http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/index.php). I haven't tried it, but instructions for installing them on a phone (which should also work for the emulator) are here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=480964.