Greek & Hebrew fonts in Mobile Web
I am using an Android phone to browse library.logos.com and it feels better than I have expected. However, my Hebrew texts all display as squares and the same happens in some of the Greek letters. I guess the solution involves installing the relevant fonts on the phone. Does anyone know how it should be done?
Ronnie
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I looked into this myself a couple months ago. Apparently there is no way to add fonts to the OS itself, but apps can embed them. I am hoping that the new firefox browser, fennec, addresses this issue. I'll test it out tonight and get back to you.
User Interface Designer - Logos Bible Software
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I'm using a Dell Axim x51v, and I can download fonts to the device. Any idea what the accented Greek font is?
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Hmmm... I was using the IE browser in Win Mobile 5.1, and was getting the character boxes.Hebrew also had the character boxes and was being displayed incorrectly left>right.
I just tried viewing it in the Skyfire mobile browser I also have on the device, and Greek, Hebrew, and even Syriac shows up beautifully.
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See my post here to see how fonts render in Opera:
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Thank you, Bill. Note that this probably only applies to my Dell Axim x51v running WinMobile 5.1. As Bill suggested on the other forum, I did install TimesNewRoman and SBLHebrew on my device. After further testing, I can report the following.
InternetExplorer: no accented Greek, no marked Hebrew, Hebrew L>R, no Syriac
Mozilla Minimo: no accented Greek, no marked Hebrew, Hebrew L>R, no Syriac
Opera Mini 5: no accented Greek, no marked Hebrew, Hebrew L>R, no Syriac
Opera Mobile 10: beautiful accented Greek, no marked Hebrew, Hebrew L>R, no Syriac
Skyfire: acceptable accented Greek, beautiful marked Hebrew R>L, beautiful marked Syriac R>L
I can also report that Opera Mini 5 was by far the fastest in rendering. Opera Mobile 10 and Skyfire were about the same. IE and Minimo lagged far behind.
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