[CWM][MOD] Missing Indian languages fonts for KitKat / JellyBean / ICS

siffar · Jan 6, 2012

New File uploaded for KitKat

Instructions
-Download the zip of your desired font
-Boot into recovery
-Make a nandroid backup (Optional)
-Flash the zip
-Reboot

As Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 owner, you may have noticed the curious case of missing fonts for Indian languages in the OS. The truth is that this is like gingerbread and I don't see it being addressed soon. Luckily, Google has started to use Harfbuzz for rendering of complex scripts.

Here is a flashable zip that installs the fonts in the /system/fonts and updates fallback_fonts.xml in /system/etc. Its better than overwriting DroidSansFallback.ttf as it does not break any other glyphs.
This will enable you to read the languages even though rendering is broke for Yuktakshars, Halants etc.

If you want to see Android supporting Indian languages as soon as possible, I request all to star and comment on this issue in Android issue tracker - http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4153

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=16315

I have only tested this on my own Google Nexus S i9023 and Nexus 5 running on KitKat[Android 4.4].

[/SIZE]Google has included full rendering support(and fonts) for -

Tamil
Malayalam
Kannada
Bengali
Devnagari / Hindi
Telugu

This zip file has additional fonts for

Punjabi (being my native language)
Nepali
Assamese
Marathi
Gujarati
Oriya
Sindhi
Kashmiri

If you want a language in the pack, provide me font file and I will update the zip. Also if you need to type in your language,I'e found this keyboard to be the best https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kl.ime.oh

BTW Thanks to The Fedora Project for providing Open Source Lohit fonts. Three cheers for them.

cdesai · Jan 6, 2012

Liked the name of the attachment xD

From my fingers to your eyez

lufc · Jan 6, 2012

Questions or Problems Should Not Be Posted in the Development Forum
Please Post in the Correct Forums
Moving to Q&A

siffar · Jan 6, 2012

lufc said:
Questions or Problems Should Not Be Posted in the Development Forum
Please Post in the Correct Forums
Moving to Q&A

This is neither a question or a problem but a solution however incomplete it is. Anyways glad to be able to post here on XDA

psycho2097 · Jan 7, 2012

lufc said:
Questions or Problems Should Not Be Posted in the Development Forum
Please Post in the Correct Forums
Moving to Q&A

This is not a question, he provided a solution. IMO this should be in the apps n themes sectn.

siffar said:
This is neither a question or a problem but a solution however incomplete it is. Anyways glad to be able to post here on XDA

thanks a lot 4 these..!

nagabushan.c · Jan 9, 2012

Tried Flashing on SGS... on luck

Tried Flashing on SGS through CWM Recovery.. on luck, got below error.

Error in Desi_Fonts.zip

Please help. Should it needs to be renamed to update.zip and then flash, Please guide.

siffar · Jan 9, 2012

What is error code and what version is your CWM

Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App

sekhargreen · Jan 12, 2012

nagabushan.c said:
Tried Flashing on SGS through CWM Recovery.. on luck, got below error.

Error in Desi_Fonts.zip

Please help. Should it needs to be renamed to update.zip and then flash, Please guide.

Unzip and replace the copied fonts to fonts folder.

siffar · Jan 13, 2012

sekhargreen said:
Unzip and replace the copied fonts to fonts folder.

and not to forget to copy fallback_fonts.xml to /system/etc

cdesai · Jan 13, 2012

lufc said:
Questions or Problems Should Not Be Posted in the Development Forum
Please Post in the Correct Forums
Moving to Q&A

Dude - read the thread - n move it back to general

Whiskey103 · Jan 13, 2012

cdesai said:
Dude - read the thread - n move it back to general

General it is

cheers

raihankabir_1 · Jan 13, 2012

it is working on motorola xoom runing on ics(teamos build rom). bangla fonts are rendering perfectly.

many many thanks to op. love you bro.

shemulweb · Jan 16, 2012

it is not working on cm7.1
it was installed successfully but not working...same problem...well i noticed that you zip cant replace the font correctly...am i wrong ?

by the way thank you so much for care this problem on android world

siffar · Jan 17, 2012

Let me look up on this problem.

nagabushan.c · Jan 18, 2012

Tried on CM7.1 on my Motorola Milestone - not working

Tried on my Motorola Milestone running on 2.3.7 CM7.1

No luck.

This is what i did:
Successfully flashed zip files from Open recovery,
All fonts got installed in /system/fonts directory.
Manually copied extracted fallback_fonts.xml files to /system/etc folder.

let me know if i need to do anything else.

Thanks for your efforts.

vetrivel_sivam · Jan 31, 2012

Not working on CM7

Flashed it with CWM.
Manually checked if installation went fine.
All fonts are available with same permission and config file is also proper.

But still rendering is not proper.
Let me know if any further details required.

Thx a lot for your efforts!!!

vikasb32 · Feb 4, 2012

It didn't work on cm7 because there is no fallback.xml file in my system/etc.so after flashing zip the fallback.xml copy in system/etc but it didn't work.

siffar · Feb 5, 2012

vikasb32 said:
It didn't work on cm7 because there is no fallback.xml file in my system/etc.so after flashing zip the fallback.xml copy in system/etc but it didn't work.

Thanks for pointing this out guys. I suppose old method of flashing DroidSansFallback.ttf would work.

nagabushan.c · Feb 6, 2012

@siffar:

Please guide how to revert the flashed zip file.

I tried replacing Droidsansfallback.ttf with ROJanakannada.ttf, but still it displays your font only (lohith-kannada.ttf).I dont like lohith-kannada.ttf, all alphabets are separate.

suggestion: use ROJanakannada.ttf for kannada. It looks nice and does'nt splits.

mohameds102004 · Feb 6, 2012

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