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Is there any method to display a pre-rendered font instead of displaying Unicode?

I am working on a project which I need to display Unicode characters. I need to display Sinhala language in my application. But most of the mobile phone brands don't support that language. But the text displaying method that used in Facebook lite app display that language in any device.
Example Official Facebook app
Facebook lite app
What have they used to achieve that?

To display Sinhala in Android without setting a font. You can use this simple method,
Html.fromHtml("ගිරි දුර්ග සංසාරේ...").toString(); //Return as String
Hope this helps somebody as it helped to me.

Delphi Arabic character display issue on android

i am using arabic characters for the first time in my app
this is how they should look like :
But this is how they end up :
things i tried:
changed the phone language to arabic.
i chose this font :Arabic type settings. i found in the fonts list
things works well for windows, its only in Android i get the problem.
i believe i am missing something because i never used arabic in apps before.
i appreciate your help.

Fire Monkey does not support right-to-left languages like Arabic. Unfortunately your chosen framework is not capable of meeting your needs. You will need to find a different tool to write your app.

How can I detect system Chinese, Korean, and English fonts without embedding one for each? (AIR mobile on Android and IOS)

My learning app requires displaying Korean, English and Chinese. One solution I have is to embed a Korean/English font and a Chinese font. Then put together a string with different TextFormats.
The thing is, I'm positive that IOS and Android devices should contain native Chinese, Korean and English fonts already, and I'd much rather refer to and use those fonts instead of packing them.
I tried detecting fonts by using Font.enumerateFonts(true), but when I use font.hasGlyphs('你'), I don't get a true, or anything, so I don't know how to choose the proper device font.
If that doesn't work, is there a font that contains all of those Characters? Or maybe a font-builder program that'd allow me to customize a font to include

This was something that I wrote sometime back
http://blogs.adobe.com/airodynamics/2012/08/21/supporting-languages-with-unicode-characters/
Hopefully it helps you
You can always know the name of font specific to the language. May be this http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5878.
Now based on the language you want to show just change the value of font in the statement format.font and the correct language should come up.

Arabic fonts are not displayed well in android

I have seen lot of questions regarding this issue.I think from myside I have tried everything to make it works and it works but not as coustomer expects. let me explain everything.
here is the compatibility of my android application
<uses-sdk
android:minSdkVersion="8"
android:targetSdkVersion="15" />
this means minimum version is 2.2. Arabi is supported in 2.2 and I have use Farsi class.
How to support Arabic text in Android?
Apartfrom that I have used arabic fonts DroidNaskhBold.ttf
Herewith I have attached a screen shot of arabic words. http://tinypic.com/r/e8u1zd/6
I dont know Arabic. But when I check letter by letter I noticed that after adding above font some letters are replaced by some different letters.
Other font I used don't show arabic words properly. I mean they are not show together accumelated.I can not keep hope on other fonts.
Is there way to solve this issue? If there is a good font to render Arabic text properly, I am ready to buy it because I think this is the only way to have a hope on this.

I do not see any problem in this font, it does not seem to change any letter, just you need to use library to connect the letters such as Better Arabic Reshaper
you can find different Arabic fonts here and here, but again I believe the problem is not in the font, but in the library you are using to connect the letters.

You can use API 17 , Android 4.2 which is Ok with RTL languages

Download Farsi class and add it in your project. Then if you want to write any arabic text on a button do:
Typeface tfbtn = Farsi.GetFarsiFont(this);
Button ed_companies_username=(Button)findViewById(R.id.add_companies_send);
ed_companies_username.setTypeface(tfbtn);
ed_companies_username.setHint(Farsi.Convert("ادخل اسمك"));

Android - Hindi Conjuncts Support?

I do understand that Android device still doesn't support complex hindi conjuncts drawing, though we set the textView typeface to a commonly used hindi font (mangal.ttf or DroidHindi.ttf).
One of the Ex:
1st 2nd Conjunct
प् र = प्र
"प्र" is been shown as...प् र { list of frequently used conjuncts - link)
What I would be interested to know is - Though android devices(I am using Galaxy-SII, os2.3) doesn't support it yet, is there a workaround for this?
Similar questions (but no workaround yet):
Android: unable to show correct hindi words
How can i show HIndi text in Android Tablet
For the question-2: #Sahaja does mention that android device doesn't support hindi complex conjuncts drawing. So does it mean that we won't be able to do anything in this regard until android adds the support for it or can we have a feasible workaround?
One workaround, which I can think of:
Convert the whole hindi database into a custom non-unicode format & use a non-unicode font (like kiran.ttf - link) to display it. This sounds like too much of effort, not sure if this is a feasible solution (not tried it yet - kept as last option) or something else would also work?
Please let me know, your thoughts on the same.
(Note: This problem has nothing to do with what custom hindi font I use or is it ttf or otf.)
Thanks,
Shibbs

I have recently been through the same problem but unfortunately didn't find any solution. I agree that some of the text won't appear properly i.e. some of it may appear misplaced characters. If you try running it on device that is 3.0 or above (I am unsure of below 3.0), then you should be able to see it properly. Or try choosing en emulator with higher which has more than 4.0.