[Lohit-devel-list] Kannada font support in Android ICS(4.0)

Parag Nemade pnemade at redhat.com
Thu Dec 22 05:53:54 UTC 2011


Hi,
On 12/22/2011 10:38 AM, reshma naik wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to get the kannada font support for Android ICS.
>
> I see that there are 3 font support Lohit-Bengali,Lohit-Devanagari and 
> Lohit-Hindi along with system fonts.
>
> On similar lines ,I downloaded the binary Lohit-Kannada from the site 
> and placed in folder Lohit-fonts in external folder of the source code 
> and made relevant make file changes.
>
> I have also included the Lohit-Kannada font as family-set in 
> fallback_fonts.xml in the framework.
>
> After MAKE,I am able to see the kannada fonts render in browser but 
> the complex script is not supported.Glyphs are not rendered in proper 
> way ,though it is just readable.
>
> Kindly help as I  have tried all possible ways from my side.
>

Does steps given in the following link works for you?
http://androidandsandu.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-to-add-indian-languages-to-android.html

Regards,
Parag.




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