How do I write proper Hindi or similar language ?

Hello,

How do I write Hindi text properly. If I write it, it's screwed in both Unity UI & TextMesh Pro also.
Please guide me.
Examples included for Unity & TextEdit(on mac). See the difference.

Thanks.

 

Hi @bhavinpanara22 - What actually is the issue? I fail to see it... The only difference in addition to minor style and color differences is the left aligned text?

You can align text from Text component, Paragraph/Alignment. But I just wonder what the issue is in your case, as the text should be left aligned by default.

 

there are issues with character joining i think.

 

The issue is the current lack of support for ligatures and other font features in TextMesh Pro and other Unity text components.

Support for font features also known as glyph shaping as well as bidirectional text are some of the new features that I am planning on supporting in the new integrated version of TMP.

I am currently focused on this new integrated version of TMP and do not have an ETA yet on when it will be available.

 

Issue is not as simple as you think.
Unity renders Hindi( and all indic scripts) completely wrong. Unity can not join some characters. It is not even placing characters in proper sequence. It can not form complex words written in Hindi(or any other Indic script).

 

You are understanding my problem very well. Can you please give me a hint what should I do now until you release the next version with GPOS & GSUB support.
Is there any other way to do so ?

Thanks.

 

Unfortunately there is no easy solution. There might be some TextMesh Pro users who may have written some utility to handle ligatures for Hindi but we are sort of stuck hoping for one of them to read this post.

The idea behind this utility would be to take the source string (text) and parse it to replace / insert the correct ligatures. You would also need to make sure that the substituted glyph is also included in the font asset.

 

@Stephan_B Hello Sir,

Please visit the link below.
This guy has done the work for tamil & telugu. But I can't understand how he has done this ? Can you please giude me about it ? And that guy has done for the 3D text. How can I do it for Unity UI text component ?

http://nareshkumaryakkala.in/unity-text-rendering-issue/

Thanks.

 

Hi,
Any update on supporting ligatures or glyph shaping for Hindi font, other than the link in above comment.
Please update.

Thanks.

 

Any update on this please?

 

This functionality is still being worked on and part of the larger work being done on the new text system. Unfortunately, I don't have a firm ETA on this yet.

 

Any update on this?

 

Same sort of ordering issue with Arabic fonts as well.

 

Still having this problem in numerous languages.... any hope of updates?

 

any updates on this ? still not working in text mesh pro 2.0 , unity version 2019.1

 

Any approximate ETA on this?

 

No firm ETA yet.

Right now I am focused on making sure the new Dynamic SDF System is stable and provides the necessary functionality.

Still hoping to get basic support for Pair Adjustments, Diacritical Marks, Ligatures / Emoji combinations in 2019.1 at some point. That won't get us all the way there but will be an improvement.

 

Wow, this is impossible for us now as we are building language localized profiling games.
Just to know Unity doesn't support Hindi, Kannada etc.

 

Look at the following add-on which works with TextMesh Pro.

 

Hi, Did you guys found solution to render Hindi text in TextMeshPro UGUI. I have <sub> tags too which is rendered in TextMeshPro and i'm using <sprite> tags to show images. So I'm hoping we have a solution to render Hindi in TextMeshPro.

 

Have you tried the following plugin that works with TMP?

If so, are you still running into tag issues with it?

 

Hi @Stephan_B I Used the instructions in the RTL plugin(I'm Using "Devnagari" font for hindi text). I copied unicode(0923) for the character on the "Character Sequence" and it says character missing from font file. I get the text from json(string) and assign it using script.

 

Make sure the character is present in your font asset or make sure you have a dynamic fallback assigned to your primary font asset.

 

Fixed the issue added the Unicode to the custom Unicode in TMPro. I can't render the GSUB table, is there a workaround to render GSUB table for glyphs substitution.

 

Support for OpenType features is not available yet. Initial support for Diacritical marks and Ligatures are planned for the Unity 2019.x cycle.

 

Check this out for Solution on Indian language rendering on Unity

http://reverieinc.com/blog/unity-rendering-indic-scripts/

 

check out http://reverieinc.com/blog/unity-rendering-indic-scripts/

 

check out http://reverieinc.com/blog/unity-rendering-indic-scripts/

 

I saw your solution but can you please tell me how to use Reverie’s fonts for Unity?

 

@Pranjal_Nayak
How to get Reverie’s fonts?

 

Hi guys

Kindly reply if anyone has cracked Hindi fonts for Unity game.

Thnx

 

UPDATE:
Bad news: incorrect formatting



Tried several Kruti Hindi fonts (Kruti Dev 010 Regular, Kruti Dev 714 Normal and KrutiBold)


Link: https://github.com/abusaadp/Unity3dHindiRenderer
2x Scripts and a Font file
Credit: abusaad
Source: https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/unity-editor-does-not-support-hindi-characters

 

Please Reach out to marketing@reverieinc.com

 

Please Reach out to marketing@reverieinc.com

 

The product seems interesting, any chance that they can publish it on the asset store, instead of trying to market it themselves? Many devs would be interested to incorporate Indic languages in their games.

 

@URPian I have a solution for rendering Hindi letters properly in TextMesh Pro, Hindi letters will not be broken,please contact me vasanthbalaji88@gmail.com

 

Hello @vasanthbalaji,
Firstly, the correct Hindi usage in Unity TMP is admirable work considering Unity does not handle non-English text gracefully. Kudos to that!

Secondly, I would like to request you to please publish your work on the Unity Store. We need more quality Indic text plugins for Unity.

There are other languages in India like-Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Kannada, Malayalam, Urdu which are implemented in some popular apps to enormous success. Having games translated in these languages would enable a lot of developers to expand their reach.

PS. I was trying to post this

https://imgur.com/a/yq4PQww


but got an error, seems like Unity Forum itself is not compatible with Indic texts
https://imgur.com/a/NaSn5jp

 

@URPian

I have submitted the package in asset Store for Tamil and Hindi ,waiting for asset Store Team to review it. I think it will take longer than usual time to review the package. Right now I have done only Tamil and Hindi for properly rendering in TextMesh Pro.

 

Looking forward to it. Please update the thread when it's live.
Thank you for your efforts!

 

@URPian

Hindi Font Plugin is Live in AssetStore, Please find from below link
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/integration/hindi-font-169606

There is a Folder StreamingAssets inside HindiFont Folder,Please move that folder to Assets
eg(Assets/StreamingAssets)

 

Thank you for this! Please do consider working on other indic languages as this upload gets technical and monetary feedback from the community.

 

Tamil and English has support or not and same text content .

 

@tamizhan

Both English and Tamil can be written on Tamil font Plugin.Can you elaborate your question please

 

Reach out to us through our website https://reverieinc.com/contact.html

 

Presently we do not have plans to put it on asset store. Please reach out to us through our website https://reverieinc.com/contact.html

 

You can check out this new asset, works with both Text and TextMeshPro. Cheapest and Best one on the Asset Store. Even works with the Sanskrit language.

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/input-management/hindi-text-corrector-175758

 

Thank you so much man you saved me. I was stuck for days and your asset does exactly what I want.

 

Really useful. light and yet powerful.

 

Try this one
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/input-management/hindi-text-corrector-175758