Font support in WebOS (Palm Pre)

John McLeod
John McLeod Member Posts: 4 ✭✭
edited November 21 in English Forum

I really appreciate being able to access much of my library on my phone.

However, I am having trouble on my Palm Pre with Greek and Hebrew text.  Hebrew does not show up at all, and Greek texts with breathing marks do not display properly.  

Does anyone know of a fix?

Thanks.

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  • TCBlack
    TCBlack Member Posts: 10,978

    John,

    I can't speak regarding WebOS, but I asked a similar question re: blackberry displaying Hebrew.

    Bryan Smith responded to my post:

    Unfortunately there's not much we can do about this. All we can do is set a font in the CSS, which is really just a suggestion-- the browser does not have to respect it. It is up to the browser to select a font based on the suggestion & render the characters. If the device either chooses to ignore the suggestion, or just doesn't have the font or glyphs, you get the box instead. We have no way to handle this case, or even detect it.        I'm afraid this will be a fairly common problem, since a lot of mobile devices ship with pretty minimal fonts. So far the iPhone is the only device I've seen with really good Hebrew support.

    Hmm Sarcasm is my love language. Obviously I love you. 

  • Jason Garrison
    Jason Garrison Member Posts: 1 ✭✭

    I too have the same problem. Turns out, I have some of the Greek fonts, but none of the Hebrew.

  • William Hatfield
    William Hatfield Member Posts: 24 ✭✭

    Try precentral.net and see if anybody knows how to install fonts.

  • Joshua Granick
    Joshua Granick Member Posts: 1

    "Bible Reader" for Palm webOS supports Hebrew. I know that isn't the same as having full Hebrew support throughout the phone, but if you just need a way to read the Old Testament, it works great and its free

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