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Unicode Fonts on Droid X

Hi,

I am very disappointed that Droid X doesnt support Unicode fonts completely. I want android to support Indian Unicode fonts and it is just not there. I saw some other replies from support persons that unicode support is there but some typefaces are not supported. It doesnt help us.

There are solutions that are suggested by various websites that provide the solution that simply copying additional .ttf fonts into /system/fonts/ directory provides the support. The issue is we don't have access to that directory.

I don't want to root the phone. But is there a way you guys can provide in one of the updates access for us to the /system/fonts directory ? Or atleast provide us a way to install additional fonts into that directory thru myverizon app or something similar to that?

This is a big deal for me. I have had the phone for almost an year and the missing font support is a big issue for me. This would really help and if you look around will definitely make a lot of people happy.

thx,

-Sreeni

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Ann154

You could try an alternate keyboard from the Market. Some support a great number of additional languages and they could include the one you'll looking for.

Wildman

Try creating a font folder on SD Card at /sd card/fonts/ and drop the font data file into the folder and reboot and see if it sees it under the options list..

rsreeni

Tried that there was a tamil keyboard app available tried. These work just within the app. I dont want that. I want Android to recognize Indic language across the board ( like my iPhone used to ).

Thanks,

-SR

rsreeni

I haven't tried the /sdcard/fonts. I will try that.

All the times I have had this phone, I have had the problem that if I Power-off-and-On it manually ( by Power+Home), it will get stuck with an exclamation mark. I used to press the Search button and it used to bring up the Boot menu and I was able to boot just fine.

But I updated to the latest version last night. When I tried Power-on-and-off, it gets stuck with the same 'exclamation mark' but now even pressing the 'search' button doesnt work. I have tried rebooting it, taking the battery out and reinstalling it, taking the battery and restarting it without the sdcard and nothing works.

I think my phone is bricked. One last attempt is let the battery drain and let it restart by powering it up. I am trying that now. If not I think its bricked :smileysad: (

-SR

curtterp

The factory directory has changed in Gingerbread. Instead of pressing the Search button, you now need to press Volume up/down at the same time to get to the screen. Then use the Volume up/down to navigate. and camera button to select.

Also, I had found these directions for a different board that I am a member of. The directions talk about Hebrew Fonts, but if you have Indian fonts, the directions would be the same.

https://sites.google.com/a/bardavid.com/android-g1/Home/adding-hebrew-fonts

Hope this helps

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