Thai character blank or square with Jolla C
asked 2016-08-10 11:39:43 +0200
With my jolla 1 I can see thai characters but not with jollac !!! Again with 2.0.4.13
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answered 2016-08-10 16:33:20 +0200
I checked Thai Wikipedia using both Jolla (JP1301) and Jolla C and noticed the same as you: while JP1301 showed Thai characters, Jolla C had everything replaced with a placeholder (square).
So, I checked the contents of /user/share/fonts/ on my JP1301 and Jolla C, and noticed that JP1301 had a directory called droid which has a font file DroidSansThai.tff in it. This seems to be the font used for Thai characters in Sailfish OS. So, using developer mode on my Jolla C, I searched for font packages using pkcon search name font.
Package called droid-sans-fonts sounded right, so I installed it pkcon install droid-sans-fonts and now my Jolla C shows Thai characters (only tested viewing Thai Wikipedia on stock browser). I don't read Thai so I have no idea if it works right, but at least there are no blank characters any more...
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answered 2016-08-10 15:07:39 +0200
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A Thai language and keyboard support would be awesome and would let the community growing.
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answered 2016-10-19 18:08:56 +0200
Not working 2.0.4.14 no rpm in release pkcon install droid-sans-fonts not fund.
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An empty rectangle that replaces a foreign character or emoji is called tofu.
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Wikipedia article about the Noto font family.
It would be better to use the Noto Thai font than the Droid version.
https://noto-website.storage.googleapis.com/pkgs/NotoSansThai-hinted.zip
https://noto-website.storage.googleapis.com/pkgs/NotoSerifThai-hinted.zip
answered 2019-01-19 19:23:23 +0200
I actually created keyboard based on http://bundyo.org/jolla/layouts/bg.qml VKB layout and I still had the square problem with the special simbols like Mai-aek Mai-Toe Mai-Tree Mai-Chattawa Mai-tai-ku etc.. here is the VKB conf and qml file https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsNsKN33FBTvpVQrzTeCubo7_Tv8
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Asked: 2016-08-10 11:39:43 +0200
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Fixed the headline and retagged. Hope that's OK.
vattuvarg ( 2016-08-10 21:57:41 +0200 )editUsing the J1 I can see Thai characters in the web browser, but the media player shows squares for Thai songs.
null ( 2016-11-13 07:40:19 +0200 )edit