Currently I use Label::createWithTTF.
The problem is I want to support all languages (Japanese / Korean / Hindi / Hebrew... etc.)
Is there an alternative to using the Label where I can use a single built-in font to automatically display the text correctly ?
It would be very tedious to add a font for each language.
use Label::createWithSystemFont
it will support all character also emoticon etc...
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I developed an app (originally in Korean and English), but I want to add Chinese support.
When I move the Chinese translations from Word to FlashDevelop, though, some characters show up as boxes. When I run the app, they don't show up at all.
Does anyone have experience developing in multiple languages using the same IDE, or preferably, FlashDevelop?
Thanks!
You need to check the file encoding and check if the font you are using support this kind of character. If you use transformation like rotation and alpha, you need to embed your font. For french, I need to convert my file to UFT-8 and embed the font with accentued character.
I want to take user input in Hindi in a HTML form.
How do i go about it?
I tried setting the font-family for the <input /> to some hindi font. But that doesn't work.
Is there any other way of doing it?
Even embedding Google Transliterate or something similar will do. But i need to store the data entered into a MySQL Database.
PS: I am using PHP to do the server side stuff.
Although from your question it's not clear what you are trying to do. But for the sake of this answer I'm going to assume that you want users to see hindi characters as they type with their keyboard. In that case changing font is not going to help. Changing font has nothing to do with what characters you type on keyboard and what characters you see on screen.
If you want to let users type hindi character with their QUERTY keyboard then you need to embed something like google transliterate.
Here is the developers documentation on how to do it
https://developers.google.com/transliterate/v1/getting_started
Hope it helps.
Just download a Hindi font and change the input field font family to a Hindi font name.
I have a bunch of HTML documents that contain some simple text in Windows-1252 encoding, but throughout the text there are numerous appearances of span elements with font-family: Symbol.
For example:
<span style='font-family:Symbol'>Ñ</span>
Which appears as the greek delta - Δ in the browser.
Google told me that using the Symbol font might show different results on different systems, as it's not actually a well defined font.
Is this really true? Is it "unsafe" to use the Symbol font?
If so, is there any way to reliably convert (on my own system) such symbols in the Symbol font to their Windows-1252 counterparts?
It's been always unsafe to rely on having certain font installed on all the computers/smartphones/gadgets that visit your site. There're some font embedding techniques that work reasonably well in some modern browsers but you'd need to repack the Symbol font and I doubt the copyright owner allows you to do it.
Of course, most characters in the Symbol font are not in the Windows-1252 encoding but that should not be an issue. You can use the following map to obtain the appropriate HTML entities. However, you'll have to write a script or program using a programming language (HTML is just a markup language).
When using font-family, if neither of the listed font faces are found on the client, that is without the webfont embeds, may result in changing to default font of client hence a different font replacement for what you'd show to your users.
You may want to use UTF-8 encoding and put the delta (Δ) sign in your HTML content, or use webfont embeds to provide an option, "use the font I want from this".
The problem is that the greek letter you see is just the appearance, the actual letter is something completely different.
I can think of two ways to convert it:
1. Write a script (in your language of choice) that converts each letter to it's Greek counterpart. (Ñ => Δ)
2. Take a screenshot of the document/page and use an OCR-program to convert it to Greek text.
Is it possible to use any fraction symbol on a website, represented as ¼ rather than 1/4 for example?
From what I've gathered, these are the only ones I can use:
½
⅓ ⅔
¼ ¾
Is this right and why is that? The reason why I ask this is because I've done a Google web search and can't seem to locate any others ... eg. 2/4
You can test http://www.mathjax.org/ it is a JavasScript library to make a Math Formula if this is what you want.
The image below displays all unicode-defined fraction symbols. Each of them is treated as one single character. You can use all of them freely, of course, but if you want more, e.g. 123/321, then you should look out for a library that can create fractions dynamically.
An option for doing so would be using LaTeX. There is another question (with very good answers) on how to do this.
Image from http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/bylanguage/mathchart.html#fractions
As I undserstand HTML5 includes MathML which can represent any fraction you want.
While searching the unicode table I also found these: ⅑ ⅒ ⅕ ⅖ ⅗ ⅘ ⅙ ⅚ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞.
A web page is built up with text, and that text is encoded in a certain character set. The character set you select decides on which characters can be displayed. This also means that characters or symbols that don't exist in the character set cannot be displayed.
As shown in Michael's answer, Unicode defines symbols for a number of fractions. These can be displayed without using all kinds of tricks, for example server or client side generated small bitmaps showing the desired fraction, or as indicated by
mohammad mohsenipur a Javascript library that transforms TeX or MathML.
There are several possibilities:
Use special character for fractions. Not possible for 2/4 for example, and problematic in font support for all but the three most common (vulgar) fractions you had found.
Use markup like <sub>2</sub>/<sup>4</sup>. Probably messes up your line spacing, and does not look particularly good.
Construct a fraction using some CSS for positioning and size control and using fraction slash character instead of the common slash. Rather awkward really, I would say.
Use OpenType <code>"frac"</code> feature. Rather limited support in browsers and especially in fonts.
MathJax, e.g. \(\frac{2}{4}\) or some more elaborated TeX code to produce a different style for fraction.
MathML. Verbose, and browser support to MathML inside HTML could be better.
These are explained more and illustrated in my page “Math in HTML (and CSS)”, section Fractions.
The choice thus depends on many factors. It also depends on the font quite a lot. I suggest that you test the different options using the font family declaration you intend to use. Despite the many alternatives, you might end up with using just the simple linear notation like 2/4.
Ok, so I want to have the characters from below in my html page. Seems easy, except I can't find the HTML encoding for them.
Note: I would like to do this without having sized elements, plain ol' text would be fine ^_^.
Cheers.
You can see that they have a unicode number of the selected character - at the bottom of the picture ("U+266A: Eighth Note").
Simply use the last portion in a unicode character entity: ♪ - ♪
If your page is already UTF-8, you can simply paste it in.
Try encoding it as █ - that should do the trick!
In a UTF-8 encoded page, just copy and paste them as-is.
Otherwise, use the number that the dialog gives you for each character, e.g. ♪
However, when working with rather exotic characters, be very wary of font support. See e.g. this question for background: Unicode support in Web standard fonts
This page gives some information about support for the characters you want to use. They seem to be relatively well supported, but a test on Linux and Mac machines won't hurt.
Here is one comprehensive entity reference. If you want to convert symbols into their entity counterparts, I suggest using this converter.
My suggestion is to use hexadecimal reference. ( it's easy dont worry :) )
for example, the first character you have highlighted in red got ascii value of 175, which is AF in hex.
So in short you can encode it using %AF, and so on...
is it clear mate? Let me know if you need further explanation or help about this :)
Edit: my post is meant for url encoding.