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Support for Indian Language in Android 2.x

Hi All,
By default in Android version 2.x(Gingerbread) Indian fonts are not supported so as a workaround we will be using “opera mini” to view the same.
The procedure given below will enable you to view/type Indian fonts in your android mobile including sms/twitter and blah blah blah…
IMPORTANT:: This procedure requires your mobile to be rooted since it involves placing a tamil font file in system directory.
Guide to ROOT your android mobile can be found in http://forum.xda-developers.com/ ,if you are not successful in finding or not sure of the procedure feel free to get back to me.
1. Download Indian font from this link http://www.mediafire.com/?6isti7ew908mwiy and copy to your SD Card
2. Download ES File Explorer to your android mobile from the link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.estrongs.android.pop&hl=en
3. In ES file Explorer go to SettingsPath settings put a check mark in “Up to Root”  move a little below you will find “root settings” In it enable “root Explorer”(you will get a popup asking for root permission just click OK in it) also enable “Mount File system” under “root settings”. <This is done to make sure that “/system/fonts/” is editable>
4. Delete “DroidSansFallback.ttf” present in /system/fonts/ and copy the new(the one you have downloaded) “DroidSansFallback.ttf” from your SD card to /system/fonts/
5. After copying long press over “DroidSansFallback.ttf”  select “properties”  permissions must be “rw- r-- r-- “ , If not change the same.
6. Now reboot the phone and you can enjoy Enjoy Indian fonts
For typing in Indian Fonts search your respective keyboards in Google/Google Play store, I have given the links for Tamil keyboard below.
Tamil Keyboard https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mak.tamil&hl=en
ThamiZha! -Tamil Visai https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tamil.visai&hl=en  I personally prefer using Tamil visai since it is easy to type 
Have tested this procedure successfully on HTC Desire S, HTC Widfire S, Samsung Galaxy Ace and Samsung Galaxy Fit.
Regards,
Sakthi Kumar Chandrabose

csakthikumar said:
Hi All,
By default in Android version 2.x(Gingerbread) Indian fonts are not supported so as a workaround we will be using “opera mini” to view the same.
The procedure given below will enable you to view/type Indian fonts in your android mobile including sms/twitter and blah blah blah…
IMPORTANT:: This procedure requires your mobile to be rooted since it involves placing a tamil font file in system directory.
Guide to ROOT your android mobile can be found in http://forum.xda-developers.com/ ,if you are not successful in finding or not sure of the procedure feel free to get back to me.
1. Download Indian font from this link http://www.mediafire.com/?6isti7ew908mwiy and copy to your SD Card
2. Download ES File Explorer to your android mobile from the link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.estrongs.android.pop&hl=en
3. In ES file Explorer go to SettingsPath settings put a check mark in “Up to Root”  move a little below you will find “root settings” In it enable “root Explorer”(you will get a popup asking for root permission just click OK in it) also enable “Mount File system” under “root settings”. <This is done to make sure that “/system/fonts/” is editable>
4. Delete “DroidSansFallback.ttf” present in /system/fonts/ and copy the new(the one you have downloaded) “DroidSansFallback.ttf” from your SD card to /system/fonts/
5. After copying long press over “DroidSansFallback.ttf”  select “properties”  permissions must be “rw- r-- r-- “ , If not change the same.
6. Now reboot the phone and you can enjoy Enjoy Indian fonts
For typing in Indian Fonts search your respective keyboards in Google/Google Play store, I have given the links for Tamil keyboard below.
Tamil Keyboard https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mak.tamil&hl=en
ThamiZha! -Tamil Visai https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tamil.visai&hl=en  I personally prefer using Tamil visai since it is easy to type 
Have tested this procedure successfully on HTC Desire S, HTC Widfire S, Samsung Galaxy Ace and Samsung Galaxy Fit.
Regards,
Sakthi Kumar Chandrabose
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mate this rule does not really solve the issue.there will not be proper text rendering. half letter are not displayed

csakthikumar said:
Hi All,
By default in Android version 2.x(Gingerbread) Indian fonts are not supported so as a workaround we will be using “opera mini” to view the same.
The procedure given below will enable you to view/type Indian fonts in your android mobile including sms/twitter and blah blah blah…
IMPORTANT:: This procedure requires your mobile to be rooted since it involves placing a tamil font file in system directory.
Guide to ROOT your android mobile can be found in http://forum.xda-developers.com/ ,if you are not successful in finding or not sure of the procedure feel free to get back to me.
1. Download Indian font from this link http://www.mediafire.com/?6isti7ew908mwiy and copy to your SD Card
2. Download ES File Explorer to your android mobile from the link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.estrongs.android.pop&hl=en
3. In ES file Explorer go to SettingsPath settings put a check mark in “Up to Root”  move a little below you will find “root settings” In it enable “root Explorer”(you will get a popup asking for root permission just click OK in it) also enable “Mount File system” under “root settings”. <This is done to make sure that “/system/fonts/” is editable>
4. Delete “DroidSansFallback.ttf” present in /system/fonts/ and copy the new(the one you have downloaded) “DroidSansFallback.ttf” from your SD card to /system/fonts/
5. After copying long press over “DroidSansFallback.ttf”  select “properties”  permissions must be “rw- r-- r-- “ , If not change the same.
6. Now reboot the phone and you can enjoy Enjoy Indian fonts
For typing in Indian Fonts search your respective keyboards in Google/Google Play store, I have given the links for Tamil keyboard below.
Tamil Keyboard https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mak.tamil&hl=en
ThamiZha! -Tamil Visai https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tamil.visai&hl=en  I personally prefer using Tamil visai since it is easy to type 
Have tested this procedure successfully on HTC Desire S, HTC Widfire S, Samsung Galaxy Ace and Samsung Galaxy Fit.
Regards,
Sakthi Kumar Chandrabose
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dude,
i follow your steps as mentioned above. opera not showing tamil fonts.
and the words are not showing up propetly see picture

try this attachment for Malayalam Fonts..................:good:

sagarda7 said:
mate this rule does not really solve the issue.there will not be proper text rendering. half letter are not displayed
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this is a implementation wise issue ... This issue can also be found in ICS

skumara said:
dude,
i follow your steps as mentioned above. opera not showing tamil fonts.
and the words are not showing up propetly see picture
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I dunno wats the problem with opera but in other places where tamil letters are showing up it will be a little scrambled its the issue with the ascii n android it is present in ICS also..
Have given the guide thinking that something is better than nothing

csakthikumar said:
this is a implementation wise issue ... This issue can also be found in ICS
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yes you are right.I am happy with ICS as it has proper text rendering for Web application and disappointed when widget and other applications can't show text properly.you know Indian version of Samsung has full idic text rendering even in GB.I want to know which component is modified by them? can we copy text rendering lib files from Samsung ROM to HTC?

sagarda7 said:
yes you are right.I am happy with ICS as it has proper text rendering for Web application and disappointed when widget and other applications can't show text properly.you know Indian version of Samsung has full idic text rendering even in GB.I want to know which component is modified by them? can we copy text rendering lib files from Samsung ROM to HTC?
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hi sos for getting late im working on merging indic fonts into aosp seems the problem is with the text rendering engine only

thanks a lot bro
now i can read and write hindi language but now also i want gujarati language
plz help

skumara said:
dude,
i follow your steps as mentioned above. opera not showing tamil fonts.
and the words are not showing up propetly see picture
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for opera, it's another workaround. here are the steps:
1. Make sure you have internet connection on your phone/device
2. type "about:config" (without quotes) on the address bar.
3. scroll to the last option which mentions about bitmap images for complex font and choose "YES" option.
4. Close opera. restart opera. Enjoy

More complete Emoji Icons

To me the emoji font in Jelly Bean is still not so complete. Some icons are still lacking...
You can test it by going to...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji
(using your phone browser)
And see how many icons can it display for you. And how many squares/blanks are there.
Anyway so I took the Segoe UI Symbol font file found inside Windows 8 and put inside Android.
So now it is able to display more emoji than it ever could. Compare it for yourself... (And it is bigger and clearer than Andorid's emoji)
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How to install (For JB roms only)
1. Download the file attached
2. Extract it out and transfer the AndroidEmoji.ttf to your phone
3. Use Root Explorer or ES File explorer to copy the file to System/Fonts
4. Set the premission to rw-r--r--
5. Reboot
6. Yeah!
It should work for those ICS users who followed...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1879056

Thanks mate! I'll try this out.

I did this and most emojis dont show up for me. Even for example when i type and emoji on twitter nothing but boxes show when i tweet it and nothing but spaces show when i type them.
I on on a galaxy nexus 4.2.1 xenon hd ive downloaded the extra dict's and everything. halp haha.

Although this is old. This is pure gold. With the new leak for Android 4.3 T999 - I was able to replace the horrible emojis with these. Thanks man!

[MOD][ZIP] Samsung + LG color emoji for 4.4 KitKat

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There is now an app to do this for you on the playstore so this method is now obsolete. However, this is still a good guide for those who would want to learn how this works, or would like to do it themselves instead of relying on an app to do it for them. You may now continue to the rest if the thread if you wish
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I'm creating this thread to provide the Samsung and LG custom emoji created for their respective 4.4 firmwares. This will change your stock emoji look to Samsung's or LG's system wide!!
The zips contain the ttf emoji file for the OEM, along with a fallback_fonts.xml edit to point to the new emoji file, and should work in any AOSP/CM or similar ROMS. Simply flash one of the following zips in your custom recovery
Scroll to bottom for screenshots!
Samsung Emoji
Download zip for Samsung
LG Emoji
Download zip for LG
in case you have issues, don't have/want to use a custom recovery or have a ROM/firmware other than AOSP/CM, you can extract the ttf file from the zip and manually apply the mod.
To manually apply the mod, you need to edit the fallback_fonts.xml file in your device located in /system/etc with Notepad++ or a root browser.
Search for:
Code:
AndroidEmoji.ttf
and add these lines before for Samsung emoji:
Code:
SamColorEmoji.ttf
or for LG Emoji:
Code:
LGColorEmoji.ttf
Now to finish applying the mod simply push the extracted ttf file to /system/fonts set permissions to rw-r--r-- (very important!) and reboot.
To remove the emoji mod look for the following in the fallback_fonts.xml file for Samsung emoji:
Code:
SamColorEmoji.ttf
or for LG emoji:
Code:
LGColorEmoji.ttf
simply delete these lines, save, reboot, and you will be back to how your emoji was before. If you have any question, need help, or if this thread needs further clarification, reply to this thread and I will try to help out or make edits where needed.
Thanks to:
angelsel, for his work and thread containing info on adding iOS emoji, make sure to thank him too! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2563757

Hey man. Thanks. You really solved my problem.

@serio22 the mediafire link for Samsung emoji is bad? do u have another link? thanks in advance

agentcelsius said:
@serio22 the mediafire link for Samsung emoji is bad? do u have another link? thanks in advance
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They both work fine for me, try again and if it still doesn't work I'll upload to another host

adding punjabi (Gurmukhi) to android 4.x

{working greatly on Xiaomi RedMi MIUI v5.0 but i'll not be responsible for any damage happend to phone}
1. Root your phone. (will void your warranty) try this step at your own risk
2. Download 'FX' from market and install root access from within the app.
3. Download 'DroidSansDevanagari-Regular.zip' attached file.
5. Open fx explorer and locate your file, extract it, copy the font, go to #/System/Fonts, then replace {backup this original file} already existing DroidSansDevanagari-Regular.ttf with the copied file. make sure you click on Lock Icon(in top right corner} before you paste font in fonts directory.
6. 'Permissions' should be rw-r-r.(to easily see this,change the view to list}
otherwise long click on copied file,select permissions.
7.after this successful copy operation, again click the lock icon to lock the system files. sometimes it shows an error. in that case, just hit back button, try here again.
8. if not successful in upper step, hit the back button one more time. now if u find the lock icon to the already locked state, unlock and then lock it.
9.exit the app.
10. immediately Reboot your phone and hit thanks..
check here if u don't wants to root your phone
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2051702
note :- in some phones, the file may have another name. so just rename it accordingly and hit thanks for mandy D.
add any regional indian language to android
just send me a unicode font of your area in ttf format.

Added LINK TO DOWNLOAD for Gurmukhi Punjabi font.
mandy D said:
{working greatly on Xiaomi RedMi MIUI v5.0 but i'll not be responsible for any damage happend to phone}
1. Root your phone. (will void your warranty) try this step at your own risk
2. Download 'FX' from market and install root access from within the app.
3. Download 'DroidSansDevanagari-Regular.zip' attached file.
5. Open fx explorer and locate your file, extract it, copy the font, go to #/System/Fonts, then replace {backup this original file} already existing DroidSansDevanagari-Regular.ttf with the copied file. make sure you click on Lock Icon(in top right corner} before you paste font in fonts directory.
6. 'Permissions' should be rw-r-r.(to easily see this,change the view to list}
otherwise long click on copied file,select permissions.
7.after this successful copy operation, again click the lock icon to lock the system files. sometimes it shows an error. in that case, just hit back button, try here again.
8. if not successful in upper step, hit the back button one more time. now if u find the lock icon to the already locked state, unlock and then lock it.
9.exit the app.
10. immediately Reboot your phone and hit thanks..
check here if u don't wants to root your phone
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2051702
note :- in some phones, the file may have another name. so just rename it accordingly and hit thanks for mandy D.
add any regional indian language to android
just send me a unicode font of your area in ttf format.
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And link to Punjabi(Gurmukhi) download font is here , but I do not know how it works with Motorola G ,
Will you guide me?
https://www.google.com/get/noto/#/family/noto-sans-guru

guglani said:
And link to Punjabi(Gurmukhi) download font is here , but I do not know how it works with Motorola G ,
Will you guide me?
https://www.google.com/get/noto/#/family/noto-sans-guru
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all u wants is punjabi lanuage to be readable on phone?

Adding punjabi ( Gurmukhi) to Mtorola G phone
Yes, I want to read and write , both, with Noto Sans Gurmukhi font or other suitable unicode Gurmukhi font ,on Motorola G phone presently having android version 4.4.4 kit Kat .without rooting. I am located in India.

guglani said:
Yes, I want to read and write , both, with Noto Sans Gurmukhi font or other suitable unicode Gurmukhi font ,on Motorola G phone presently having android version 4.4.4 kit Kat .without rooting. I am located in India.
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"without rooting"- is this phone's current state or u don't wants to root it?

I do not want to root it. It is currently under warranty.

guglani said:
I do not want to root it. It is currently under warranty.
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Not gonna happen

Thanks for your time, I will wait till company provides updation of system to android Lollipop.

Without root options are-
Peacock browser and opera mini
N punjabi can be read only by opening the fb etc. In these two

How to Change the emoji set on your HTC Device (any HTC device; Root Required)

If you're tired of having the stock "Sense" emojis that looks hideous on the HTC One A9, I made a guide for you.
if this worked for you please post what device you have so we can make this thread a sticky
YOU NEED ROOT
I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR BRICKED OR BOOT LOOPED DEVICES, ALWAYS MAKE A BACKUP AND BE SURE TO HAVE A CUSTOM RECOVERY FOR ANY POSSIBLE ERROR
*Note* This changes system emojis and stock HTC Keyboard to or any keyboard *Works best with Gboard*
made a how to video https://youtu.be/UyzyNXVBgrQ (This one uses a Samsung device, for example)
1) Download Emoji Switcher from the Google Play store and download the emoji you want to be on the system (applying the emojis wont work).
2) Download root explorer or any file manager with root. (I prefer Root Explorer because that's the one I have) Root Explorer: https://mega.nz/#!0dMzFTpK!cn6wlZlXx...YZpndJT8CxieFI
3) Go to data/data/com.stevenchoen.emojiswitcher/files/emojisets/ and here are the emojis you downloaded, now copy the one you whant.
4) now open the storage or system tab on top, on root explorer you should have two tabs one for system and one for storage, select the one that's not in the emoji folder you were. Now go to system/fonts/ now open the menu and select " sort order " and select "size" now scroll all the way down and paste the emojis you have copied.
5) Now on samsung we have "NotoColorEmoji.ttf and hTC_ColorEmoji.ttf " delete both of them.
6) Rename the emoji you pasted to " NotoColorEmoji.ttf "
7) Now go to the emojis tab and copy again the emoji you copied eralier and pasted in the fonts tab.
8) Now rename that emoji to " hTC_ColorEmoji.ttf.
9) Now set permissions to " rw-r-r " to both of them and reboot.
For other phones ( not HTC )
I really don't know; but, I guess it have to say something along the lines of ColorEmoji.ttf in the fonts folder and you can replace that .ttf file with the one you downloaded
Please feel free to post the fonts and device you have, so I, or others could help you.

Can you post your original NotoColorEmoji.ttf from HTC?