Hindi language support for Android - text shows up as boxes

Question

Does android in eclipse emulator support hindi fonts? I see Square boxes like ☐ instead of characters अ आ इ ई उ ऊ on Emulator and on Unicode or UTF8 compliant Hindi websites. Any settings for solving the issue?

Answer 1

This might help you

use custom TrueType fonts by copying the .ttf file into your projects's 'assets' folder.

Then in your application you can use the font like this;

final Typeface customF = Typeface.createFromAsset(this.getAssets(), "custom.ttf");
final TextView textV = (TextView) findViewById(...);
textV.setTypeface(customF);