[android-developers] Re: Obtain unicode string for Roslien Language

2010-02-27 Thread Takami Labs
Thanks Bob and Frank for your kind reponses. I have meanwhile sent a mail to the font provider , if he can provide me with the info regarding the font. 1. Whether the font use a Private Use Area 2. If it does than which code point points it assigns its characters to.. As for an input method to

[android-developers] Re: Obtain unicode string for Roslien Language

2010-02-27 Thread Takami Labs
To be more specific , this is the piece of code I use to display the Roslien font on my message box: Typeface face = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(),fonts/ Roslien.ttf); messageBox.setTypeface(face); Thanking You, Regards, Srikant Aggarwal On Feb 27, 4:43 pm, Takami Labs

[android-developers] Re: Obtain unicode string for Roslien Language

2010-02-27 Thread Bob Kerns
Hmm, if I understand you correctly, this is most unfortunate -- though perhaps convenient for you! It sounds as if they have mapped these glyphs to the first block in Unicode (ISO-10646), which are the same as ASCII (ISO-646). But, in fact, they are no such thing. (Well, maybe they are, since

[android-developers] Re: Obtain unicode string for Roslien Language

2010-02-26 Thread Bob Kerns
The Unicode Consortium has not addressed non-human languages. Not even Klingon, whose script has been around for 30 years, even longer than Unicode! But if you Google unicode klingon, you can find how people have addressed this for Klingon, e.g. using the Private Use area. I'd also look around