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.
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If you take a bit of text that contains emojis from whatsapp web, and paste it into facebook messenger, you'll get different versions on each platform. How does each platform use their own images as placeholders for emojis? Please note that the emoji code is preserved when copy-pasted. So a melon on one platform will still be a melon on the other platform.
I'm not even sure this is a programming question, if not I'd be very grateful if you could point me to the right direction :)
Emoji are represented as unicode characters that individual platforms and apps can interpret as they see fit. While most modern platforms will automatically translate the unicode character into the appropriate image, some apps will override this behavior and replace the platform-standard unicode character with their own image.
text.replace("{unicodeEmojiString}", "{eitherAMarkerOrImageSpecificToMyApp}"
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...
sorry didnt see the year of this post
I have a javascript application, that converts text in runes using the Unicode rune chart. The problem is, that some fonts do not contain the rune symbols.
Mozzila Firefox simply finds out the correct font and uses it for runes, instead of Goudy Medieval and Times New Roman. Google Chrome is not capable of doing that and displays black boxes instead of runes.
So my question is:
How can I find out which web-safe font supports these symbols?
Can I find which font does Firefox use at any point of the document?
Re. 1.: Use a character map program. (On Linux, use e.g. gucharmap, where you can search for the character, and by right-clicking on it (and holding), you can see the font used. You can also switch to other (non-default) fonts in the program and see if the character is present in that font too.)
Re. 2.:
Highlight the text whose font-family you want to determine.
Right-click and select Inspect Element.
In the Developer window that should open, on the right hand side, there should be a Rules column with a bunch of CSS rules. You'll usually have to scroll to the bottom there, and somewhere in there you should find the applicable font-family (inherited or custom-specified) list of which fonts to preferably use.
Compare this list (which may be a single item) with the list of fonts installed on your system. The first matching font between that list and what you have installed would be what Firefox is using.
Use a font-manager program (on Linux this might literally be "font-manager") to get a list of fonts installed on your system.
if rune is an open type font ligature, you can view the font's open type features a few ways....microsoft typography has a free tool u can download, install, then right click on an open type font, some new tabs will appear with the usual ones...one of them is properties. click on that guy, it'll have a list of all the features.
you can also use photoshop, i know if you select an open type font as the text in use, you can then view it's open type features. here's some images of exactly how to do it...sorry for the quality, these are from CS4: http://dev.bowdenweb.com/css/fonts/accessing-open-type-features-in-photoshop.html
so that's how you can tell what features they offer. i'm not sure if runic is a feature itself, or just a design term....that said, quick google search and "Junicode" is a medieval font with the "Junicode is an advanced Unicode font for medieval scholars, including the full range of characters for languages written in the Latin script" http://www.filewatcher.com/d/FreeBSD/8-stable/sparc64/junicode-0.7.6.tbz.1331504.html
but maybe your heart is set on your font....i can't find alot about the rune chart, sorry. you can search the entire open type font features list....i know microsoft typography has it listed, as does adobe...but neither are great for searches, and i'm also not a fan of their naming conventions, which confuse me even more.
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.
I have been working on a subtitles engine for flash/flv video player. On my Mac everything is great, nice aliased glyphs, displaying all the characters, etc. Switch to windows, it all goes out the window. Some machines with Eastern Characters enabled display fine, but I can't guarantee all users will have this option selected.
I am using the TLFTextField, I am pulling in UTF-8 XML with Chinese/Japanese characters.
I have tried embedding the (required fonts/glyphs) but pushes the file size up massively.
I have also tried changing it to unicode, with no joy. Has anyone got any experience with displaying these characters while maintaining a low file size.
I'm not really offering a solution to your question, but if the user is wanting Chinese or Japanese subtitles, I'm pretty sure that they will have the correct encoding.