Localization with Issues with Android Fonts

The font droid sans bold that comes with the G1s doesn't support all
of the characters of the languages we're dealing with in Ghana. We've
manually added some of the necessary characters, but this might not be
an option as our number of phones/surveyors increases. Does anyone
know a solution for this kind of problem?

my suggestion is to approach this from two levels which might solve
this problem more broadly.

the first is see if the folks who built the droid font can add those
characters. http://www.ascendercorp.com/contact/?Ref=droid-fonts is a
good place to start.

the second is to see if the popular android roms can incorporate font
changes (or make it easy to add characters).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/ is the place to start asking.

if both of those fail, you'll likely have to write a script that does
this mod on every phone you use in your deployment.

··· On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 11:49, Chad wrote: > The font droid sans bold that comes with the G1s doesn't support all > of the characters of the languages we're dealing with in Ghana. We've > manually added some of the necessary characters, but this might not be > an option as our number of phones/surveyors increases. Does anyone > know a solution for this kind of problem?

(Hey Yaw and everyone... new to the list, first post!)

Not sure how you have performed the font modifications, but I have
done some work in this area, specifically adding support for Tibetan
to Android.

You can view the post I wrote up on it, and the associated shell cmds
here: http://openideals.com/2009/11/20/the-droids-dharma-supporting-the-tibetan-language-on-android/

In short, it is a quick way to substitute whatever fonts you need into
the Android system files for a rooted device. You could automate this
process through writing a simple app which runs the script, etc.

Best,
Nathan

··· On Jun 4, 2:49 pm, Chad wrote: > The font droid sans bold that comes with the G1s doesn't support all > of the characters of the languages we're dealing with in Ghana. We've > manually added some of the necessary characters, but this might not be > an option as our number of phones/surveyors increases. Does anyone > know a solution for this kind of problem?