You are left to the whims of the carriers for font support. You can however load your own fonts and use them. You can in fact even create your own fonts and use them in an app. I used Japanese-hiragana, a custom created font as well as an unusual english font in an app which I wrote. This is a better solution, just include your fonts as resources and then use the control.setfont() method.
Sent from my Xoom Hellstorm <[email protected]> wrote: >The standard Android font has a Chinese simplified font style for all >the Chinese characters. These styles are sometimes different from >Japanese characters, which makes them quite unusual and sometimes >plain ugly. They all have only one code point in Unicode, though. > >Characters with a significant difference are for example: > >線 (the left radical) >置 >画 >禅 >空 >語 >etc. > >There is a Japanese style font available (DroidSansJapanese - which is >quite appealing), but only on Android phones sold in Japan. On western >phones, you get a Chinese font, even if you write only Japanese. You >can install the DroidSansJapanese font on a rooted phone, but this is >not possible on all phones, not officially supported and not everybody >wants/can do that. > >Thus, it would be best to install both fonts on a standard android >installation, and then offer the option to select either font face >(Even better would be to offer font faces for Taiwan and Korea, as >well), whichever the user likes more. Also, the internet browser >should check if a web page uses the html “lang” option (e.g. lang=zh- >CN or lang=ja) and then display the appropriate font, without any >setting. Firefox on Windows already does this, in contrast to Chrome >or Internet Explorer. > >If a Japanese font was included in Android by default, the device >makers would (hopefully) not delete it and everybody outside Japan >could use a Japanese font. The Iphone displays a Japanese font by >default, only Android uses only a Chinese font. > >If this is not the right place to post this question, does anybody >know a better place? I would prefer a direct contact to a programmer, >because such an unimportant question for most users will not be paid >attention to on the official feature request pages. > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >"Android Discuss" group. >To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >[email protected]. >For more options, visit this group at >http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
