Hello all,
I have coded my xls form with both English and Kannada language options (with Label::Kanada and hint::Kannada columns in survey and choices sheets). The Kannada text was originally typed in a non-UTF font (Nudi o1 e). I converted it in Excel by selecting each line of text and changing the font it to a UTF-8 Kannada font (Nudi o5 K) that is compatible with both Mac and PC.
In Excel and Google (when uploaded to Google drive) the xls form displays the Kannada font appropriately, when uploaded to Enketo web-preview and when placed on the tablet, the Kannada font displays in an unreadable ASCII form.
I have been looking into this for a while now and have tried saving the xls file as encoded for UTF-8 before uploading to the ODK XLS to Xform converter. Is there anything I am missing in order to get the font to display correctly?
Thank you in advance for your support.
Cheers,
Ebony
Ebony,
That font is probably not available on the Samsung tablet. Try using
image-based forms (https://opendatakit.org/help/image-based-forms/)
instead.
Yaw
···
--
Need ODK services? http://nafundi.com provides form design, server
setup, professional support, and software development for ODK.
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 6:48 PM, ebony.bertorelli@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all,
I have coded my xls form with both English and Kannada language options (with Label::Kanada and hint::Kannada columns in survey and choices sheets). The Kannada text was originally typed in a non-UTF font (Nudi o1 e). I converted it in Excel by selecting each line of text and changing the font it to a UTF-8 Kannada font (Nudi o5 K) that is compatible with both Mac and PC.
In Excel and Google (when uploaded to Google drive) the xls form displays the Kannada font appropriately, when uploaded to Enketo web-preview and when placed on the tablet, the Kannada font displays in an unreadable ASCII form.
I have been looking into this for a while now and have tried saving the xls file as encoded for UTF-8 before uploading to the ODK XLS to Xform converter. Is there anything I am missing in order to get the font to display correctly?
Thank you in advance for your support.
Cheers,
Ebony
--
Post: opendatakit@googlegroups.com
Unsubscribe: opendatakit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com
Options: http://groups.google.com/group/opendatakit?hl=en
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ODK Community" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to opendatakit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Thank you Yaw! However, the fact that it shows up in excel and google drive, and not the enketo web viewer makes me think there is something else wrong (i.e. it needed to be typed in a unicode font, not just converted). I also ran a survey last year using a Kannada unicode font and it worked well on the same tab. Therefore, I am a little mystified. Will take a look at the image based form link as well.
Cheers,
Ebony
Also, the link to the text renderer from that page does not appear to work.
Thanks!
Thanks for the note about the link. I will update the documentation.
We stopped supporting that tool.
For image-based forms, you can use a desktop tool like Paint.net (
http://www.getpaint.net/index.html ) to create a blank image and type text
onto it in whatever language and font you need, and then save it to a file.
e.g.,
The online tool was not doing much beyond that.
···
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 2:17 PM, wrote:
Also, the link to the text renderer from that page does not appear to work.
Thanks!
--
Post: opendatakit@googlegroups.com
Unsubscribe: opendatakit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com
Options: http://groups.google.com/group/opendatakit?hl=en
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"ODK Community" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
email to opendatakit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
--
Mitch Sundt
Software Engineer
University of Washington
mitchellsundt@gmail.com
Hi Ebony,
FWIW, there is no particular issue with the Kannada script in Enketo, and
no need to adjust fonts in Excel (in fact that may actually be the cause).
The issue is with your form (but I don't know what exactly). Somehow the
strings aren't copied correctly.
See
e.g.: https://odk.enke.to/preview?form=http://23.21.114.69/xlsform/downloads/tmpmLZjh4/Kannada.xml
Form source is
here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BfZjySCeRxTpJZ2A0WJb9o2qRfMgSXm8H8zAEjHQgxE/edit?usp=sharing
Cheers,
Martijn
···
On Friday, August 28, 2015 at 4:06:39 PM UTC-6, Mitch Sundt wrote:
>
> Thanks for the note about the link. I will update the documentation.
>
> We stopped supporting that tool.
>
> For image-based forms, you can use a desktop tool like Paint.net (
> http://www.getpaint.net/index.html ) to create a blank image and type
> text onto it in whatever language and font you need, and then save it to a
> file.
>
> e.g.,
>
>
>
> The online tool was not doing much beyond that.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 2:17 PM, <ebony.be...@gmail.com > wrote:
>
>>
>> Also, the link to the text renderer from that page does not appear to
>> work.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> --
>> Post: opend...@googlegroups.com
>> Unsubscribe: opendatakit...@googlegroups.com
>> Options: http://groups.google.com/group/opendatakit?hl=en
>>
>> ---
>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
>> "ODK Community" group.
>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
>> email to opendatakit...@googlegroups.com .
>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Mitch Sundt
> Software Engineer
> University of Washington
> mitche...@gmail.com
>