Re: [android-developers] Fonts and Arabic support

2010-01-13 Thread Jonas Petersson
Mark Murphy wrote: Yousef Alhashemi wrote: Is it possible to add extra fonts to the emulator? Only by creating your own firmware. Actually, I did some experiments that seem to indicate that with a bit of care you can upload a font that makes Arabic work in the emulator until the next reboot

Re: [android-developers] Fonts and Arabic support

2010-01-10 Thread Mark Murphy
Yousef Alhashemi wrote: > 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? Android 2.0.1 does not have Arabic support: http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.0.1

[android-developers] Fonts and Arabic support

2010-01-10 Thread Yousef Alhashemi
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 sup