Fonts are like a coin lost in the forrest: You're never sure where to look first. Had to say that ;-)
Ok, so the problem: I come from the web dev world and my mind is screwed up completely regarding fonts. There is a UIFont class that can be used to specify how text in a label should look like. Unfortunately it seems I have to know a lot of font secrets to use it properly. Does anyone know which kind of fonts I can specify and which are "safe to use"?
With safe to use I mean: Which ones are not dependent a lot on the language of the user, i.e. completely inavailable if the user has Chinese language active. Nor sure if that would be a different font, all those funny symbols and stuff. I want to use the font in a "tight graphical environment" where I have a design that's made to match that font. That would look like crap if in japan the font is italic style and in greece they see huge chunky and bold letters.
So which fonts would be best to use to avoid most of uglyness-problems arount internationalization and different devices?
Here are a list of available fonts for the iPhone OS.
Also, you can use the UIFont APIs systemFontOfSize:, boldSystemFontOfSize: and italicSystemFontOfSize: - any of which I would imagine will handle localization reasonably.
More UIFont documentation can be found here.
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We're currently developing a game in Unity (2019.4.28f1). This game is played internationally. We'd like to add support for languages other than common Latin written languages. Currently, we're trying to implement support for Burmese, but aren't making much progress.
Finding fonts to display Burmese isn't a big issue. As you can see in the image below, we manage to display all characters that are supposed to be displayed.
However, the big problem here is that the displayed order of symbols isn't the same as what it's supposed to be (see image below for the desired result).
We've tried several fonts that use either Unicode or Zwagyi encoding, but none of them seem to display characters in the correct order. Currently, we're using a padauk font from here, which is supposedly Unicode encoded. Then, within Unity, we applied to following settings to that font:
So, if one of you knows more about this and can share some information with me, that would be much appreciated!
Thanks.
We've already found a solution for this! Before setting the text of the text component convert the Unicode codes to Zwagyi and it'll display the text in the correct order!
All the credits go to this guy who put in the effort to make a tool for these use cases!
Of course, you still need a (Unicode) font that supports these (Burmese) symbols.
Example:
Text textComponent = GetComponent<Text>();
textComponent.text = mmfont.Net.Converter.Uni2ZG(yourUnicodeText);
Is there a way of listing ALL emoticons from the Segoe UI Symbol font?
I can get all the symbols no problem, but how do I identify which of these are emoticons?
As far I know, there is no direct way to do that.
With a little bit of googling I came up with:
emoticons => Segoe UI Symbol (87)
emoticon: 2639-263b, 2661, 2665, 2764, 1f48b, 1f48f-1f49f, 1f600-1f64f (you can just check unicode ranges to verify if it's emoticon or not)
☹☺☻ ♡ ♥ ❤ 💋 💏💐💑💒💓💔💕💖💗💘💙💚💛💜💝💞💟 😀😁😂😃😄😅😆😇😈😉😊😋😌😍😎😏 😐😑😒😓😔😕😖😗😘😙😚😛😜😝😞😟 😠😡😢😣😤😥😦😧😨😩😪😫😬😭😮😯 😰😱😲😳😴😵😶😷😸😹😺😻😼😽😾😿🙀 🙅🙆🙇🙈🙉🙊🙋🙌🙍🙎🙏
You are probably better off using charmap + doing manual labour work and hardcode them into your application, since it's not that much of work anyways.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ChristTrekker/UnicodeSymbol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji
There's one awasome app called Xaml Candy, just have a look. Must have app for developer. It is helpful to choose appbar icons.
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In Windows8, standart app "symbol table"
How to display Chinese in plot's label
我是英文版64位win7系统，在matlab中的命令行和文件中可以输入中文，但是保存再打开之后中文就变成“？？？”了。然后在plot里面xlabel中也无法使用中文，画出来的图片上就是“？？？”。
请问怎么才能在MatLab中使用中文？
Have you Googled yourself? Try https://www.google.com/search?q=MATLAB%20%E4%B9%B1%E7%A0%81. Basically you need to use an appropriate font, depending on which OS and MATLAB you use.
You can either directly use Chinese font (such as SimSun 宋体) or properly configure font linking in registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\FontLink\SystemLink). I wrote some articles about this in ThemeX forum. Pay a visit.
Good afternoon, sports!
I have a fast doubt.
I'm using COCOS2D and i need to know if i can use other extension type of font other than ".fnt".
Because i used a few and didn't have any luck.
I'm using this piece of code to make a "credits" scene:
CCBitmapFontAtlas* l_026 = [CCBitmapFontAtlas bitmapFontAtlasWithString:#"Look for our apps in the AppStore" fntFile:#"fission.fnt"];
If it isn't which can i use?
And it is do you know any font converter to change "normal fonts" to ".fnt"
Thanks!
The best font program in my opinion is: Glyph Designer. It is inexpensive and very easy to make great looking fonts.
I use CCLabelBMFont but I'm pretty sure it is basically the same thing.
If you have some cash to spend you can use Glyph Designer as suggested by Aaron. But you can also use a free Java tool named Hiero. You might have to do some tweaking to get the result you want though.
The tool will output 2 files: one .png and another .fnt. Add these files into your Xcode project and use it using simple lines like below:
CCLabelBMFont *some_label = [CCLabelBMFont labelWithString:#"Your Text" fntFile:#"fontfile.fnt"];
Do note though that the size of the font from each pair of fnt/png files is fixed, so you have to create multiple pairs if you want to have different font sizes. Also, you need separate pair for Retina and non-Retina display modes.
Just wondering what is the best way to display a barcode given a string on the iPhone. I have looked over stackoverflow and google and a few people have different ways each requiring a decent amount of work (I think) and also slightly old so I wanted to get it right first time.
One way I've read is using a custom font that you can now use in iOS4, using this font Someone else has written a class to import custom fonts, though this apparently isn't needed for iPads.
I have also found a Library but not much further details on it.
If using the font is the best way is the font linked above good or are there better ones?
Cheers for any help.
Well I went ahead and checked it out anyway. Fonts work extremely well and are very easy to implement. Basically copy this barcode font into your project. Then in your App info.plist type this in:
<key>UIAppFonts</key>
<array>
<string>3OF9_NEW.TTF</string>
</array>
For the above linked font.
Then in where you want to place the barcode just use a UILabel and then for the font use :
label.font = [UIFont fontWithName:#"3 of 9 Barcode" size:40];
Note that the font name is not 30F9_NEW.TTF. If you are using another barcode font or other font in general just open the ttf file in font book and it will say the name up the top of the window. Also you need to have a * at the beginning and end of the string you are using. If you navigated here looking at how to implement a custom font you can do it the same way, just not the font name isn't the file name.