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

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ametarasu

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Hi siffar,
desi_fonts.zip was not installing on my HTC One X. So I created another flashable zip out of it. This uses busybox and I tested this on my rooted One X running viperX ROM. Feel free to use this.
 

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ftarules

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Does this work on Jelly bean 4.2.1?

---------- Post added 8th February 2013 at 12:00 AM ---------- Previous post was 7th February 2013 at 11:25 PM ----------

Hi siffar,
desi_fonts.zip was not installing on my HTC One X. So I created another flashable zip out of it. This uses busybox and I tested this on my rooted One X running viperX ROM. Feel free to use this.

Just flashed this on Nexus 4 running Xylon 4.2.1, and it work. Thanks.
 

sonny123

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Hi Guys,

It is completely safe to flash this on my international model htc one X+ using TWRP recovery. My rom is ANDROID REVOLUTION HD v6.3 (great stockrom)

Thank you!
 

sonny123

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Thanks for letting us know :)

Also they did correct rendering of Gurmukhi in 4.2.x. Can you guys confirm other languages?



SORRY. It was a question.

IS it completely safe to flash this on my international model htc one X+ using TWRP recovery ?
My rom is ANDROID REVOLUTION HD v6.3 (great stockrom)

Thanks. sorry for the confusion.

PS. Does it work on Gujarati fonts?
 

siffar

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SORRY. It was a question.

IS it completely safe to flash this on my international model htc one X+ using TWRP recovery ?
My rom is ANDROID REVOLUTION HD v6.3 (great stockrom)

Thanks. sorry for the confusion.

PS. Does it work on Gujarati fonts?
A curious of missing Is. Well you never know unless you flash it. Take a Nandroid beforehand, just in case. And yeah Gujarati is there as mentioned in the OP.
 

sonny123

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Re: [CWM][MOD] Indian languages fonts as zip file for flashing through CWM

Ok I will try it...will a nandroid back up my widgets/wallpaper, app data etc.? Or do I need titanium backup for that?

Sent from my HTC One X+
 

sonny123

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Nandroid is an image of major partitions of your phone. So you can just use it to restore any image. Everything will be backed up except anything on /sdcard partition.

Thanks for the explanation. I'm pretty certain most of my apps and pictures etc are on the sd card partition of my phone. So, nandroid backup won't back up any of it? Not much good to me...

Sent from my HTC One X+
 

ujilraj

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Thanks for the explanation. I'm pretty certain most of my apps and pictures etc are on the sd card partition of my phone. So, nandroid backup won't back up any of it? Not much good to me...

Sent from my HTC One X+

A Nandroid backup saves all ur installed apps with its settings intact till that moment... It's basically used for a quick recovery back to the working condition if u r flashing a zip or trying a new Rom/kernel on the current Rom... The advantage is tht, u don't need to install all apps again & change the settings to ur liking again bcoz the backup restores all the data & settings as it was just the moment before the backup was made... & if u haven't got Apk or the Titanium backup, thn u don't have ur apps in ur SD card...
 

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    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
    1. Punjabi (being my native language)
    2. Nepali
    3. Assamese
    4. Marathi
    5. Gujarati
    6. Oriya
    7. Sindhi
    8. 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.
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    Dude - read the thread - n move it back to general :p

    General it is ;)

    cheers
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    @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.
    Post the file or the URL. I will include it. Thanks for feedback
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    Hi siffar,
    desi_fonts.zip was not installing on my HTC One X. So I created another flashable zip out of it. This uses busybox and I tested this on my rooted One X running viperX ROM. Feel free to use this.
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