[GUIDE] Unicode fonts on TouchPad for Vietnamese languages

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Hello everyone. I'm a new TouchPad owner here, and a new member of precentral as well Having the TouchPad so far has been a great exerience, but I was a little ticked off that I could not read anything in Vietnamese when I come across websites such as yahoo.vn or vnexpress.net. Even youtube search in Vietnamese do not appear correctly, all I see is square box So I begin to dig around the net and found that HP decide to get rid of Unicode in all their fonts! Luckily I found this Vietnamese website who was very informative on finding how to add Unicode fonts to the TouchPad but was missing key fonts here and there, and applications wasn't working correctly without "stock" fonts. So without further adieu, here are the instructions to adding unicode fonts to your TouchPad! I believe these will only work for non-character asian sites, beside chinese.

1. Make sure your TouchPad has enough battery life, greater than 50%. Plug your TP into your computer or laptop, and set to USB mode.

2. Download this Unicode Fonts, and extract it as is to your TP drive on the computer. Note: Again extract as is directly to the HP TouchPad drive in your computer, not any other folder.

3. Disconnect USB mode by safely remove hardware, but leave the wire still connected. Turn on Developer Mode on your TP, and open WeOSQuickInstall.jar. You should know how to do this already, if not read up on it before proceeding!

4. Click on Tools, then Linux Commandline. Copy this command without quotes "mount -o remount,rw /" and paste to the window that appeared after you click on Linux Commandline, then hit enter on your laptop or pc. Do not do CTRL+V for paste as it will not work, you have to physically right click and select paste!

5. Copy this command without quotes "cp media/internal/HPbackupunicodefonts/*.* usr/share/fonts", and hit enter on your laptop or pc. Again, do not do CTRL+V, as I know a lot of people would love to do just that. Wait a few seconds until it finish and you see two lines displaying "root@........" Then you're done.

6. Remove the usb cord from your TP, clear cache out from your browser on your TouchPad (you should know how to do this already too, if not search here or google ) Reboot your TP completely, not luna restart, but complete restart it.

7. Enjoy


Mod please make this a sticky as I think it's necessary because this took me quite a few days of trial and error to find out what fonts were needed, and to have all games/apps to work! If anyone can, please spread this news out to your fellow friends and websites but please do not take sole credit for it.

Thanks all!

Xterminater

OP, did you get it from this website? http://www.tinhte.vn/hoi-dap-chia-se...-again-819453/

I used this, but there are some rare instances where it does not display correctly, it might have to with the type of input for vietnamese characters. Is yours the same as this or different?

Thanks OP, I am sure your post will be useful for other languages as well.

Since the instructions above is slightly incomplete here are a few pointers if you are lost.

1. developer's mode:
type webos20090606 on your touchpad's main screen's justtype search bar
turn on developer's mode, dont need to enter a password. When complete, restart your touchpad by holding power and main button


2. download webosquickinstall from here and run it from your PC. This will allow you to run command line from your PC when your touchpad is attached to the usb port in dev mode.

http://forums.precentral.net/canuck-...ll-v4-0-a.html

3. after you install the unicode, restart your touchpad by holding power & main button or your fonts will be all messed up in your browser.

I was successfully able to install this without any issues as of yet.

#5 in your instruction is wrong. it should be like this:

cp media/internal/*.ttf usr/share/fonts

#3 (after step 3, user need to use Novaterm in order to login as root in the shell).


thanks.

Novaterm for Windows link: http://tkgeisel.com/stuff/novaterm-1.zip

Originally Posted by chagla

#5 in your instruction is wrong. it should be like this:

cp media/internal/*.ttf usr/share/fonts

#3 (after step 3, user need to use Novaterm in order to login as root in the shell).


thanks.

Novaterm for Windows link: http://tkgeisel.com/stuff/novaterm-1.zip

Why do you do media/internal/*.ttf if fonts aren't there? media/internal/FOLDER FONTS/*.* is right.

Plus, if you use webOS quick install, you have automatically root.

Best regards

Strange display for the keyboard

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Thanks for the steps to install Unicode fonts. It works well before 3.0.4 update.
After the update one of the big key from the keyboard "A B C" changed to "A[]B[]C[]". When you pressed this key to change the character from "A B C" to "+ - =" there is space inserted with "[]" in between. Please kindly help me how to fix it. It's just the display of the keyboard changed from

"A B C" to "A[]B[]C[]"

or

"+[]-[]=[]"

I did re-add the fonts again and I even tried to run the WebOS Doctor to reset it, but the result is the same. Display some strange character for that key. Everything else works fine!
Any help to fix it would be highly appreciated. Thank you

So can anyone answer Willy's question regarding this issue post v3.0.4 update? I bought my father an HP Touchpad mainly to view Vietnamese websites (& YouTube, LOL) since he doesn't need tons of apps however, it's useless to him until he can view these sites. I'd like to load the Unicode instructions but not going to do so until this is resolved. Thanks!

Does anyone know where I could find these fonts? Megaupload is closed and there has been no mirrors posted anywhere for these fonts. Thanks.

Regards.