[REQ] Arabic fonts

[kahtan]

Hello,
How to creat arabic fonts using GLCD Font Creator ?

Thanks

[filip]

Hi,

I have downloaded an Arabic font, imported it into the GLCD fonrt creator software and used it successfully in my GLCD application.
Did you have any problems when using Arabic fonts ?

Regards,
Filip.

[kahtan]

Hello filip,
when i import Arabic font using GLCD font creator
i cant see anything on my GLCD
please can you post your code?
Thank you

[filip]

Hi,

Which Arabic font are you using ?
Can you attach it here please ?

Regards,
Filip.

[kahtan]

Hi,
Thank you for replay

here is the font i use: Traditional Arabic

[filip]

Hi,

It seems that this font doesn't contain the Arabic characters, I have used several font tools to see it's content and I didn't see any Arabic characters.

Regards,
Filip.

[kahtan]

Hi filip,

It seems that this font doesn't contain the Arabic characters

It is famous arabic font i copied it directly from windows Font folder.

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 12:31:

I have downloaded an Arabic font, imported it into the GLCD ...

What arabic font did you use?
Can you post it here?

Thank you

[filip]

Hi,

I have used Aga Abasan Outline Arabic Font, which can be downloaded from here :
http://freearabicfonts.com/download.php ... me=abasan2

Regards,
Filip.

[kahtan]

Hello,
I tried to import this font using GLCD font creator
(i copied it to windows font folder then imported it to GLCD font creator)
it didn't work

see attached image

[octal]

@Kahtan
witch version of **WINDOWS** are you using please?

[kahtan]

Hello octal,
I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate

Thank you

[octal]

Kahtan,
Thanks for this precision, I'm also using Win7 ultimate edition (French version).

What you are doing in importing Arabic is wrong!

You need to understand that GLCD Font Creator is really able to import ANY **UNICODE** font. When we talk about UNICODE Fonts, we need to give a precision.
In unicode fonts, chars are not mapped like (what I may call) standard old ascii based fonts.
In Unicode fonts, each (wide) char has a unique code (like the old ascii code) encoded in 2 bytes. This gives 65K possibilities (2^16). In each unicode font, each language has its **own reserved** bloc.

if you take ANY font that "implements" arabic (or hebrew, chinese, or greek, ...) bloc, you can import arabic chars from it by providing the code of the FIRST char in the concerned bloc.

From your screen capture, we can see (on the left grid) that you are trying to import the arabic chars in the bloc belonging to first 256 chars. In Unicode fonts, this bloc is reserved (for compatibility issues) to standard latin glyphs based languages (English, French, ...). Even if you take Traditional Arabic font, you'll **never** be able to import arabic chars from it in this bloc.

As an example, go in GLCD Font Creator , select import "Traditional Arabic", and when GLCD Font Creator prompts you to provide the "From" and "To" text boxes, give the values: From == 1569 To== 1610 (see screenshot belows).
This way, GLCD Font Creator will import the main arabic bloc chars with the Hindi Numerals (used in middle orient countries for digits representation).
To find the bloc you need to import, you may use the CharMap application provided in the windows accessories (btw, charmap shows the char code at bottom in hex format).

If you have any issue, don't hesitate to ask again on this forum.

[filip]

Hi,

Thank you for this thorough description, it will shine a new light on the usage of GLCD Creator.

Regards,
Filip.

[kahtan]

Hi,
Thank you very much octal

Now I can import Arabic fonts, and start writing code to add a Write_Arabic_Text to my library

Thanks,
kahtan

[octal]

@filip @kahtan
you are welcome