So I was messing around with themes and one of them changed my default, stock font. While I did find 2 apps that fixed this issue (by downloading a .hwt file with the font), neither gave me satisfactory results, as neither supported characters with carons and acutes (frequent in my mother language).
Note: I still do have the Huawei font, but not the stock Android one
How can I fix this without having to reset my whole phone?
EMUI 8
Themes app version: 8 (can update to 9)
Language: Czech
Edit:
Digging through old forum posts I found multiple comments recommending an app that's no longer on the Play Store.
I have, however, found it on ApkPure.
https://m.apkpure.com/font-reset-theme-for-emui/uk.co.olabs.theme.fontreset
It seems to work fine, however the font is a bit smaller than I remember it being, so if you have any other ideas, throw them at me.
Edit2:
Found Wingdings within the files of my phone, converted the .tff to .htw, changed the font style to Wingdings out of curiosity, and guess what. It worked, I now have the stock font again. What a wild ride.
Here's the HWT: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O7tavGmgb-GZ0fAv02VxRAeDC54OzkEU/view
Edit3:
Found a theme that changes to the default font
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4F914rzb1UmVkczd3poLWZhS1U/view
You didn't say what language, but have you tried this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asna.emuidefaultfonts
I had the same issue with a theme changing the default font, this fixed it.
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kam333 said:
You didn't say what language, but have you tried this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asna.emuidefaultfonts
I had the same issue with a theme changing the default font, this fixed it.
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That's the app I used. The language is Czech. The problem is that the letters with acutes/carons were of different size than when compared to other letters.
Hi,
The other app I have used in the past is this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.deishelon.lab.huaweithememanager
Or you could try
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.deishelon.emuifontmanager
May not work in your case, but worth trying.
Good luck.
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kam333 said:
Hi,
The other app I have used in the past is this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.deishelon.lab.huaweithememanager
Or you could try
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.deishelon.emuifontmanager
May not work in your case, but worth trying.
Good luck.
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Neither really are what I was looking for, but thank you. The app I listed above seems to do a satisfactory job.
I found an app that lists all the system fonts installed
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.sadah.systemfonts
The Huawei Theme Manager app kam333 recommended can generate .htw files from .tff, so I'll try to convert some of the fonts and share the results here after I'm done with it.
I want to replace the default font of huawei to IOS FONTS. I tried some apps and got only the regular version, and the bold version is not changed.
Can sombedy help?
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Hi everyone,
while I'm customizing my O1, I wanted to change the font.
So googling around I've found and wanted to try the ubuntu font.
All went well with fontchanger and a reboot, but now I have a problem: in long app titles, for example, little rectangles are shown after the three dots, looking ugly.
Looking around xda I've found another user with the same problem, but no fix.
I have even changed manually the other Droidxxxxx font with the same from ubuntu, the one remaining are the droidhebrew and droidthai, but all still the same.
Can someone give me an hand?
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Hi everyone,
while I'm customizing my O1, I wanted to change the font.
So googling around I've found and wanted to try the ubuntu font.
All went well with fontchanger and a reboot, but now I have a problem: in long app titles, for example, little rectangles are shown after the three dots, looking ugly.
Looking around xda I've found another user with the same problem, but no fix.
I have even changed manually the other Droidxxxxx font with the same from ubuntu, the one remaining are the droidhebrew and droidthai, but all still the same.
Can someone give me an hand?
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I have that tried to and give up ... it doesnt matter what TTF you use, we
ends up with these ugly rectangles. maybe there is a TTF problem with pure android fonts and "windows/mac/linux" - fonts?
Happened to me to with the same font. I don't know why it happens.
It's really a pity because I like the look of this font on O1
Thanks anyway, I will look around for a possible fix and if i find it I'll publish it here too
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It's only a problem with some fonts. It all hapens because there are different types of fonts - for example Verdana and Tahoma are very often used in web pages and shouldn't display rectangles as they support almost all languages and characters, ALGERIAN and Pieces of Eight are design fonts and should display boxes in almost all occasions and Segoe UI and Ubuntu are interface fonts which means there should not be any problem with them.
I am currently using Segoe UI (Proprietary font, you can copy it from Windows Vista or 7 (or Windows 8 if you are a prerelease maniac)) and I have absolutely no squares or boxes or question marks - all because I am using only the default font. Not bold or semibold or italic, because the other ones give me boxes in rare occasions.
I'll try to find a fix for the Ubuntu font. I'll probably just search for a Ubuntu font where all boxes are replaced with emply spaces.
Edit: Just visited http://font.ubuntu.com and downloaded the fonts... applied the Light version (Ubuntu-L from the archive) and everything worked fine. It's maybe due to a version change or some other glitch... By the way, the standart Ubuntu font (Ubuntu-R) worked fine too. I've attached the fonts just in case you are too lazy to download the whole archive... Just remove the .docx extension.
Ianis G. Vasilev said:
... Just visited http://font.ubuntu.com and downloaded the fonts... applied the Light version (Ubuntu-L from the archive) and everything worked fine. It's maybe due to a version change or some other glitch... By the way, the standart Ubuntu font (Ubuntu-R) worked fine too. I've attached the fonts just in case you are too lazy to download the whole archive... Just remove the .docx extension.
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Well Ianis G. Vasilev, I'm not so noob: I've downloaded the latest whole font archive (0.80) with all the fonts inside: Medium, Regular, Italic and so on... Then with Font Changer I've applied only Ubuntu-R(egular) to see how it could look. After reboot all seems to be ok, but when I've opened Titanium Backup I noticed the little rectangles in trunked names after the 3 dots. So I've manually set the other .ttf from the advanced section of Font Changer, then reboot, but nothing changed. For me it's strange that some characters are missing from the Ubuntu font, since it's used all over the world with its distro, so I decided to ask here.
Now I can only try other font, with displeasure since I really like the look of the Ubuntu font on O1. And yes, I'm not the only one as you can see some posts above and from some search on XDA...
I think I'm coming back to the 300 fonts thread and start to look for other nice font to use instead of the stock
Hi all,
this is my first post in xda-developers. Rectangle shape means, that operating system is trying to display some character, but there is no glyph shape defined for that character inside ttf file. In this case operating system displays glyph shape of .notdef glyph. And .notdef glyph is usually defined as empty rectangle.
Simple solution is to change .notdef glyph in ttf file, so it does not contain any shape. I've prepared two ubuntu font files for you - Ubuntu-Light.ttf and Ubuntu-Regular.ttf, because I've found these two most aesthetics replacement for stock android DroidSans.ttf and DroidSans-Bold.ttf
Just for record - both fonts are from ubuntu font pack version 0.80
Hi, ther
My mother just got the new Samsung Galaxy S2, which is smaller font size. the SMS and contacts are quite small font.
Do you have any Rom or app with larger font size?
cheers!
hi,
I am over 35 and don't have a problem with reading the phone, maybe your mother need glasses.
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Try the latest rom KI8 mate.
Its got a much bolder and clearer font
Search android market, you might find apps for resizing fonts there.
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so that older people 35+ can read?
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Oh. ..I'm 38, someone must have forgotten to tell me that I need a larger font on my S2 because I have*no* problems reading what's on the screen (and when apps have a user-selectable font size, I tend to pick the smallest available)
I just saw this on Android UK News if it helps http://www.androiduknewsetc.com/2011/10/16/big-launcher-ideal-for-those-with-poor-eyesight/
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There are settings within messaging that define font display size! Should be the same with emails!
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go into
settings>display>screen display>font style
to change the font. Selecting "get fonts online" will bring you to the market link for a samsung endorsed font switching app.
check out this thread for some .apk fonts.
its hard to tell which fonts will be the oversized ones, so youll just have to try it out.
redwater said:
Hi, ther
My mother just got the new Samsung Galaxy S2, which is smaller font zise. the SMS and contacts are quite small font.
Do you have any Rom or app with larger font size, so that older people 35+ can read?
cheers!
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you might want to say people 65+ instead
im over 35 and my eyesight is thankfully perfect, as someone said perhaps your mum needs glasses.
Try specsavers
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any program ??
still there is no progrma to make font bigger (in mms.apk ther is just extra small, small and normal) but still i need bigger font in whole phone any idea ?
Search Google Play. If you can't find an app that can do the job, CM9 has a toggle in accessibility settings where you can increase the font size by around 50%. Tho if you don't have experience flashing custom roms, I'm not sure I'd recommend you go down this path unless it's absolutely necessary.
If it is tho, might be something worth looking at ?
Edit to add - Also, not 100% sure on this, but you might also be able to change the DPI of the screen to achieve this as well. Perhaps someone who fiddles around with this might be able to confirm either way.
Edit to add more - I just did a Google search for "Google Play increase font size" & got results. That should be the first thing you do before you go down the CM9 route.
Font Size and Big Buttons Keyboard are both helpful .
jje
I noticed recently that when I receive a new Gmail message, the new message is highlighted and bold, etc. just like normal...but every other message in my inbox is also bolded. And once I read the message and I have ZERO new messages, everything remains bold until the app is either force closed or ends by itself (by Android multitasking or whatever).
I thought it was due to the ICS theme I'm using, but I'm seeing now that every theme is doing this...I also installed the Roboto font sometime before the ICS theme, so maybe that's it? I used the font from the Font Installer app in the market.
I tried searching for more info, but it doesn't seem anyone has this problem. I've deleted data/uninstalled and reinstalled the Gmail app a few times and it still winds up happening. At first I thought it happened randomly, but I'm pretty sure I've narrowed it down to only when I get new emails.
Not a big problem, but annoying nonetheless. Does anyone know what could cause this and/or how to fix?
Having the same issue as well. Running the ICS theme by Sonny on CM7. I also installed the Roboto font. Kind of weird though I didn't notice this right off though. Seems like it took a few days after installing the ICS theme before it happened to me.
A fix would be nice, but as you said it's not a huge issue, but I'm curios as well as to the cause.
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Having the same issue as well. Running the ICS theme by Sonny on CM7. I also installed the Roboto font. Kind of weird though I didn't notice this right off though. Seems like it took a few days after installing the ICS theme before it happened to me.
A fix would be nice, but as you said it's not a huge issue, but I'm curios as well as to the cause.
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Which Roboto are you using? Did you use a Market app to install it or a CWM zip or something?
I used the font installer included in Rom Toolbox, I do believe it's the same as Font Installer on the market by Jrummy (uses the same storage location on the Sd Card anyway)
To be honest, I'm not positive on which version of the Roboto font was installed. I placed all versions (Bold, Itallic and regular in my fonts folder). The font installer shows me a preview of only the Bolded version, which looks like what I'm getting in Gmail.
I'm going to download FontChanger from the market and see what happens with that.
Edit: Tried Font Changer. While it does give more options and the ability to choose whichever version the of the Font I want to install, still have the same issues. After a reboot, all my read email was perfect, as soon as I sent an email to myself, right back to all unread mail being bold again.
PacerguyDon said:
I used the font installer included in Rom Toolbox, I do believe it's the same as Font Installer on the market by Jrummy (uses the same storage location on the Sd Card anyway)
To be honest, I'm not positive on which version of the Roboto font was installed. I placed all versions (Bold, Itallic and regular in my fonts folder). The font installer shows me a preview of only the Bolded version, which looks like what I'm getting in Gmail.
I'm going to download FontChanger from the market and see what happens with that.
Edit: Tried Font Changer. While it does give more options and the ability to choose whichever version the of the Font I want to install, still have the same issues. After a reboot, all my read email was perfect, as soon as I sent an email to myself, right back to all unread mail being bold again.
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So are you only getting it with the Roboto font? What about other fonts/stock font/etc.?
Only with Roboto font. I tried a few other fonts and no problems. Weird
PacerguyDon said:
Only with Roboto font. I tried a few other fonts and no problems. Weird
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Hmmm lame.. I think I'm gonna try installing Roboto from another source then some time to see if that helps. I don't really see why a font would make this happen
Ok, now this is weird. I used Helvetica which is very similar to Roboto, and sure enough, the same thing happens. Bold read emails. I switch to Caviar Dreams font, and back to the normal Unbold read emails in Gmail. Wow this is really crazy
PacerguyDon said:
Ok, now this is weird. I used Helvetica which is very similar to Roboto, and sure enough, the same thing happens. Bold read emails. I switch to Caviar Dreams font, and back to the normal Unbold read emails in Gmail. Wow this is really crazy
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Hmmm kinda seems like its just a problem with certain fonts that's gone mostly unnoticed before now! I was gonna flash the roboto font in zip form, but the flash failed so I'll have to figure that out next. What other options for installing roboto are there?
Map the font in this manner using fontchanger:
DroidSans --> Roboto-Regular or Roboto-Condensed
DroidSans-Bold --> Roboto-Bold or Roboto-CondensedBold
This should fix your issues.
When using Ubuntu font many users see rectangles in different places, that don’t belong there. They come from the .notdef character which in that very font has a rectangle shaped outline. This character appears when the font doesn’t contain a character for the codepoint requested. It seems like some apps use codepoints different from usual spacing characters to show empty room: e.g. with launcher pro in the app drawer long names are shortened with an ellipsis after which those squares appear. The reason why using other fonts doesn’t show these squares is, that some fonts only have an empty space at .notdef, so no outline appears. One can verify this by using the DroidSansNotdef.ttf which I attach. There I’ve only added an outline to the .notdef character and you’ll get the same behaviour as with the Ubuntu font.
UbuntuAndroidfix.ttf has an empty space in .notdef so it isn’t visible. Nevertheless, this is only a workaround for a bug that’s somewhere else.
Edit: As shown below, the real reason is missing U-FEFF in the font, so it is a font bug. Attached you find all four styles (Ubuntu regular, italic, bold and bold italic) with the added character.
20.4.12 — New version: added spacing characters U-2000—U-200F to fix some more box-char appearances.
Basically after searching a bit more i found this workaround: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16895848&postcount=269 It seems better. But thank you anyway!
Of course this is better, it’s not only a workaround, it’s a fix.
I attach a new version of the fixed font with the added glyph. At least the Droid Sans that I downloaded from Google webfonts (to be sure that I have the latest...) doesn’t contain it.
Edit: Attachment removed, new attachment in first post.
Yeah thats right. But which program do you use to edit the font?
I used the Font Creator and the output size of the font is 312kb (instead of 335kb of the original ubuntu font). Your font is about 680kb. I used the droidsans.ttf from ICS platform (v1.0 build 114) and it did contain the glyph
I use fontforge and I'm doing font design in my spare time. But I've never thought about file sizes. I'll have a look at it later.
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ggdu said:
I use fontforge and I'm doing font design in my spare time. But I've never thought about file sizes. I'll have a look at it later.
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Nice Have you made a font?
I'm working on EB Garamond, my main project. I can't post a link yet, but you'll find it easily via google.
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h i like the font. Nice!
The font is really good!
I love Greek & Ancient Greek letters in your font (i like the curves) but italic Greek just isn't my type. I think it should be less space between some letters.
Great work
How to use it.. I am Kyrillos Rom v10.1..
pavankadam said:
How to use it.. I am Kyrillos Rom v10.1..
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Just flash the v10.1.1 update.
kyrillos13 said:
Yeah thats right. But which program do you use to edit the font?
I used the Font Creator and the output size of the font is 312kb (instead of 335kb of the original ubuntu font). Your font is about 680kb. I used the droidsans.ttf from ICS platform (v1.0 build 114) and it did contain the glyph
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I’ve found the reason for the bigger size. I’ve overseen to untick the old style kern table option. Now it’s only 273,4kb. I’ll upload it together with bold and italic.
kyrillos13 said:
h i like the font. Nice!
The font is really good!
I love Greek & Ancient Greek letters in your font (i like the curves) but italic Greek just isn't my type. I think it should be less space between some letters.
Great work
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Thank you! The italic is far away from ready, especially greek and cyrillic still need alot of work.
pavankadam said:
How to use it.. I am Kyrillos Rom v10.1..
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If you don’t want to reflash you can also use a font installer program like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.font.installer
kyrillos13 said:
Yeah thats right. But which program do you use to edit the font?
I used the Font Creator and the output size of the font is 312kb (instead of 335kb of the original ubuntu font). Your font is about 680kb. I used the droidsans.ttf from ICS platform (v1.0 build 114) and it did contain the glyph
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Thanks so much for the fixed ubuntu font. Looks great on my Live with Walkman™. Can I make a request though?
I see the same box character on the attached font. Can you help me fix it like you did for the ubuntu font, please?
Thanks so much!
SoloRazr said:
Thanks so much for the fixed ubuntu font. Looks great on my Live with Walkman™. Can I make a request though?
I see the same box character on the attached font. Can you help me fix it like you did for the ubuntu font, please?
Thanks so much!
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I will fix it tomorrow
SoloRazr said:
Thanks so much for the fixed ubuntu font. Looks great on my Live with Walkman™. Can I make a request though?
I see the same box character on the attached font. Can you help me fix it like you did for the ubuntu font, please?
Thanks so much!
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You’re welcome!
The thing about the squares is, they show up wherever a glyph is found which doesn’t have a representation in the font. So it depends on where you see the box character. With the fixed Ubuntu font for example you’ll see many boxes if you want it to display Vietnamese because it lacks a whole block of multiple accented characters which will be added in a later development stage. The Droid fonts you attached will fail for many more languages because it only contains the code points of ISO-8859-1 which is oriented at western european languages (it doesn’t even contain a Euro symbol). If that is the problem, the simple fix won’t help you, one would have to know which characters you are missing to do something about it.
The second problem is: what is the license of the fonts? There’s no licence information so it’s not clear if one may change anything about the font.
There’s an Android logo font which contains the FEFF character and many more (incl. greek and cyrillic): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3771562&postcount=86 — perhaps this helps.
Thanks to both of you guys!
I can't remember which site I downloaded the font from but its really clean compared to the android logo font so I liked it.
New version as reaction on more box-sightings in the Kyrillos Rom thread. In fact the character U-2009 (thin space) was missing. I added the whole block of (non)spacing characters from U-2000 up to U-200F.
Non-vietnamese UI-elements should hardly show boxes again.
For downloads visit first post.
ggdu said:
I'm working on EB Garamond, my main project. I can't post a link yet, but you'll find it easily via google.
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could you add these chars too:
ČŠŽčšž
i mean to EB Garamond font u made?
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rkoby13 said:
could you add these chars too:
ČŠŽčšž
i mean to EB Garamond font u made?
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They are already present in the font. If you look at the specimen (https://github.com/georgd/EB-Garamond/blob/master/specimen/Specimen.pdf?raw=true) on p.3 you find a czech example that shows all three of them (at least in lowercase).
ggdu said:
They are already present in the font. If you look at the specimen (https://github.com/georgd/EB-Garamond/blob/master/specimen/Specimen.pdf?raw=true) on p.3 you find a czech example that shows all three of them (at least in lowercase).
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thanks for reply & linky...i like ur font very much
edit: @ggdu....is the font itself avaliable for download allready?
that would be nice
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I would be ever so grateful if you could take a screen shot of the following word displayed on your phone, and post it in a reply on here. I'm giving you a noble excuse to try out that fancy new quickmemo feature of yours . Please also include if you're on stock or The Base. I'm on The Base v0.7.1 and would like to know if it also effects stock.
نانسي
If you're an Arabic speaker (a bit of a long shot on these forums, I know ), here's the TL;DR - س is displaying as ش when it's in the middle of the word.
If you don't speak Arabic but are still curious as to what this is all about, here's a short description. Arabic is written a bit like English cursive. The shape of a letter changes based on whether it appears at the beginning, middle or end of the word. For some reason, on my phone the letter "s" is erroneously rendering as the letter "sh", but only when it's in the middle of a word. So "Johnson" shows up as "Johnshon". As you can imagine, this is quite annoying...
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Hey I'm on stock and subsequently also speak Arabic . Your long shot was received. And it is incorrect on my screen as well and I am bone stock.
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The Base. 0.7.1
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ketchup4life said:
Hey I'm on stock and subsequently also speak Arabic . Your long shot was received. And it is incorrect on my screen as well and I am bone stock.
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Bummer. I was hoping it was just a bug that popped up in The Base that could easily be fixed, but it appears it's a bug in LG's stock Android 4.0.4. I found this post where a user is having the same problem with an LG Motion 4G...
My boyfriend would raise hell if he found that LG ****ed up the Arabic language. xD
/Uninstalls and hides phone.
Well, I managed to fix this! Someone in the IRC channel suggested I try changing the font and it really is that simple. Just find any Arabic ttf font, rename it to LG_Arabic.ttf, put it into /system/fonts (requires root) and reboot your phone. If anyone finds a good Arabic font, let me know.
Personally, I kind of like the LG font. So I just opened the original LG_Arabic.ttf in a font editor and deleted the extra three dots above U+FEB4 that aren't supposed to be there. I've attatched the modified version if anyone is interested.
hassa9 said:
Well, I managed to fix this! Someone in the IRC channel suggested I try changing the font and it really is that simple. Just find any Arabic ttf font, rename it to LG_Arabic.ttf, put it into /system/fonts (requires root) and reboot your phone. If anyone finds a good Arabic font, let me know.
Personally, I kind of like the LG font. So I just opened the original LG_Arabic.ttf in a font editor and deleted the extra three dots above U+FEB4 that aren't supposed to be there. I've attached the modified version if anyone is interested.
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Thanks for the tip
guys to root the phone just follow these steps here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1818502
It works for the lg motion
Android Arabic Fonts
This is a collection of Arabic Fonts that could be used in LG Motion. Download, Rename and place in the /system/fonts :laugh:
thank you soo much man i have the same proplem and now solved
thank you too much man
hassa9 said:
Well, I managed to fix this! Someone in the IRC channel suggested I try changing the font and it really is that simple. Just find any Arabic ttf font, rename it to LG_Arabic.ttf, put it into /system/fonts (requires root) and reboot your phone. If anyone finds a good Arabic font, let me know.
Personally, I kind of like the LG font. So I just opened the original LG_Arabic.ttf in a font editor and deleted the extra three dots above U+FEB4 that aren't supposed to be there. I've attatched the modified version if anyone is interested.
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