Well, i don't want to create my own app, I want to have it displayed system wide. I know this is unrealistic, but it would be so nice if Google would just put several fonts in the standard Android package (which the device manufacturers use as a basis for their devices).
On 28 Sep., 18:16, Paul Zazzarino <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >athttp://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.
