Displaying Foreign Languages in WebGL

I am translating a game into Simplified Chinese. Characters in scripts and unity objects display just fine in the PC-built. However, the WebGL-built would not display correctly (They are ignored—no space or random texts).

I did some digging, and it appears WebGL does not have access to the font in OS as the pc-built does.

To fix that, I import a font that supports simplified Chinese into the assets folder. For unity objects, I can change the default font (Arial) to the font (Microsoft YaHei) I imported.

However, for the characters in scripts, the documentation (https://docs.unity3d.com/2017.3/Documentation/Manual/class-Font.html) says you need to save the C# code in UTF-16 encoding for Unicode support. I did that, but the codes will not compile. I think this is not the issue cause the pc-built works just fine.

From my searches in the unity forum, it appears there is an order of fallback fonts unity uses. I chose Microsoft YaHei because it is on that list. Yet, the WebGL-built will not display correctly even I had the TTF file imported and try different settings. Change the font property like “character” from dynamic to Unicode or ASCII.

I also manually defined the fallback order by importing both Arial and MS-YaHei. It still does nothing.

Here are some posts in the forum regarding similar issues.

https://answers.unity.com/questions/931515/enabling-unicode-in-html5-builds-1.html
https://forum.unity.com/threads/webgl-fallback-font-not-displaying-in-build-again-i-know.881818/
https://forum.unity.com/threads/font-issue-with-webgl-although-i-added-the-font.526008/
https://forum.unity.com/threads/fallback-font-not-used.582295/
https://forum.unity.com/threads/japanese-hiragana-characters-dont-work-in-webgl.356097/

Any feedback or suggestions are welcomed! Thank you.

 

Have you tried this?

 

Thank you. I will look into that. The majority of translation is done in C# codes. Would TextMeshPro work as well?