Hi, So I'm playing around with a little Android (2.0) application I'm writing, and whenever I use a TextView with Arabic text, it just shows as rectangles. Since Android has unicode support (correct if I'm wrong), I'm guessing this a font issue. I've seen a couple of other threads about Arabic support but none of them seem to give any solution to the problem. I have a few questions here and it would be great if anyone can help:
1. Obviously different builds of android (may) have different bundled packages/fonts/etc, but does the "official" android build include an Arabic font? What about the emulator? Is it possible to add extra fonts to the emulator? 2. Is it possible to include a custom font with my application that all of my TextViews can use? 3. I'm running CyanogenMod on my G1, and Arabic letters seems to display just fine, but they're never connected (i.e. they are always in their "separate" form -- in Arabic letters look differently depending on their position in a word). My question is, is the connectedness of the letters a font issue? A rendering engine issue? ..etc? I have very little knowledge with regards to i18n issues so I apologize if my questions seem, well, stupid. Any hints on how to get Arabic text to show in my app (aside from using images!) are much appreciated. -Yousef
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