[Lohit-devel-list] Lohit fonts in Android ICS?
Parag Nemade
pnemade at redhat.com
Sun Apr 29 07:54:20 UTC 2012
Hi,
On 29/04/12 10:50, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> Hello, I just upgraded my Sony Xperia Neo V to ICS yesterday evening
> and to my pleasant surprise found that Tamil (my mother tongue) script
> is now displayed properly apart from the Devanagari + Bengali which
> were there in Gingerbread.
>
> Not only that, the appearance of the fonts looks as if they are the
> Lohit collection of fonts. Even the Devanagari font has changed
> appearance since Gingerbread and now looks like the Lohit Devanagari
> on my computer. Anyone know for sure whether Lohit fonts are being
> used in Android? It would be a great feather in the cap for Lohit, no?
I don't have any android phone that supports ICS yet but if you look
into the Android 4.0.3 source code then you can see supported Lohit
family fonts are Bengali, Devanagari and Tamil. The support has been
added into fallback_fonts.xml file.
Regards,
Parag.
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