Change the default Arabic font.

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Hello, Just received the A100 today and was happy to note that it had Arabic typing/viewing support, but that was dashed the moment I saw the font used to render them. It is absolutely horrible. Is there any way to add/swap the arabic font support package/file/dll? Sorry if this is a noob question but googling didn't help and the Search feature here in unavailable. Thanks!

Hang in there mate... I'm looking into it too! I think there is a solution for it because I have found one for Droid and Xoom... Maybe a little modification and it might work!

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I managed to change the honeycomb original Arabic font (which is by the way somewhat okay) to Almohanad font (it's the same as my real name!!!!!)

I'm attaching some images for comparison...

Unzip the attached zip file to /system/fonts

Make sure to back up your original font (DroidSansArabic.ttf) though for future reversing...

Good luck mate!

thank you soooooooooooo much

can you please add more fonts as well?

So in theory I should be able to substitute any font I want? Just rename it to DroidSansArabic.ttf and tick the correct permissions? You rock by the way. Just one more Q. How do you have that split screen keyboard? Which KB is it? I have the thunm keyboard but it does not support Arabic input.

Actually, your theory turned out to be a fact! Yes, you can substitute any font with DroidSansArabic.ttf, but it has to be in .tff format.

Thanks :)

The keyboards are:

- Go Keyboard > grey/black color > free
- SwiftKey X Tablet Keybooard > blue neon color > paid around $5

Good luck...

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I have the swiftkey X keyboard that I got from Amazon's free app a day. Will see if that one can work.

Cool! Yah give it a try...

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Nope. Didn't work, it told me I should by the Tablet version. The normal version looks like crap.

Then you ought to get the tablet version, it's really worth it!!!

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