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iOS 9 Support for chinese fonts

Discussion in 'iOS and tvOS' started by klad, Sep 3, 2015.

  1. klad

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    Hello guys,

    We are having problems with chinese fonts in iOS 9. It looks like they are not supported ( we see a bunch of '?' symbols instead of the proper characters). Some other special characters, like russian or german ones are supported, but no chinese ones. Is there something we can do on our own to support them ? Including a chinese font is our last option, as it will increase the build size by quite a lot.

    Thank you!
     
    Last edited: Sep 3, 2015
    klad, Sep 3, 2015
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  2. klad

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    Up. Anyone with the same issue?
     
    klad, Sep 4, 2015
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  3. _Paulius

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    _Paulius, Sep 4, 2015
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  4. MrEsquire

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    iOS9 will be official this week I think, are we aready to support it?
     
    MrEsquire, Sep 7, 2015
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  5. _Paulius

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    The fix will be available in the first 5.2 patch release and it will also be ported to 5.1 and 4.6. It should solve most of the issues with the new fonts, but some ( ~1% ) of Chinese characters are still not displayed correctly. Also Emoji characters are currently not supported (this most likely will not be fixed before 5.3, because Apple started using a new font format for them).
     
    _Paulius, Sep 7, 2015
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  6. 00christian00

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    Does this issue also affect dynamic fonts?
     
    00christian00, Sep 7, 2015
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  7. sFGL

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    Do you know when a patch adressing this issue will be released for 4.6?
     
    sFGL, Sep 8, 2015
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  8. _Paulius

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    This should only affect dynamic fonts, if you are using pre-generated static fonts which have Chinese, Russian etc.. symbols they should work fine on iOS9 even without the fix.

    It should be included in the next 4.6 path, which should be released on Friday/early next week (unless something unexpected happens).
     
    _Paulius, Sep 8, 2015
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  9. mohit-parihar

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    Last edited: Sep 29, 2015
    mohit-parihar, Sep 29, 2015
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  10. _Paulius

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    _Paulius, Sep 29, 2015
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  11. mohit-parihar

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    thanks for your response, but it's can't work, now i have unity 5.2.0p1 with Helvetia ttf those work well
    on Unity editor but can't work on iOS-9, now i will try with Patch 5.2.1p1
     
    mohit-parihar, Sep 29, 2015
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  12. mohit-parihar

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    Yesss...:) Its work fine with Patch 5.2.1p1
     
    mohit-parihar, Sep 29, 2015
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  13. Toxast

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    I am on 4.6.8 still having this issue with some chinese symbols showing like [?] on ipad.
    When the fix will be ported to 4.6?
     
    Last edited: Oct 5, 2015
    Toxast, Oct 5, 2015
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  14. furic

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    Have this issue using NGUI dynamic fonts in iOS9 and Unity 4.6.6

    When a text not using a chinese font, it fall back to system default chinese font and made the question marks.

    At the mean time this is not yet fixed, I need to make sure all text use a chinese font.

    But some text we just want the system default font...

    Keep me updated if this get fixed in 4.6...
     
    furic, Oct 7, 2015
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  15. povilas

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    This issue has been fixed in 4.6.8p2.
     
    povilas, Oct 27, 2015
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  16. PixoGroup

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    is this NGUI specific? we're seeing an issue in unity 5.2.2 where our dynamic font is falling back on ios 9 even when we have the option Include Font Data check for our dynamic font. we've tried 5.2.2p2 as well. any suggestions?
     
    PixoGroup, Nov 2, 2015
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  17. povilas

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    Please submit a bug and attach a small repro project to it. Post the bug number here. Thanks
     
    povilas, Nov 3, 2015
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  18. zahid_991

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    By using "DFKai-SB" font in unity solved my problem and has no issue for displaying chinese language in ios 8.1.
     
    zahid_991, Sep 22, 2016
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