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    AlaaAlaa Member
    edited May 2023 in General questions
    Hi,
    In Solar2D, when creating a text, the font is specified as native.systemFont, and when testing the project on Android, the Arabic characters appear correctly, so why is it not the case with Gideros ? Is there a solution for that?
    note: In Gideros, I used TTFont, to create the text, in windows player Arabic Characters appear correctly, but in Android appear separated.
    Ex: مرحبا ----> م ر ح ب ا
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    • MoKaLuxMoKaLux Member
      you need to include harfbuzz in your project (right click Plugins - Harfbuzz) :)
      my growING GIDEROS github repositories: https://github.com/mokalux?tab=repositories
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    • MoKaLuxMoKaLux Member
      edited May 2023 Accepted Answer
      a quick example:
      	local myfont = TTFont.new("fonts/trado.ttf", 90) -- my arabic ttf + size
	local mytext = TextField.new(myfont, "سلم") -- may display weird in gideros studio
	mytext:setPosition(256, 256)
	mytext:setTextColor(0x55ff00)
	stage:addChild(mytext)
      note: works on android >= 5

      PS: if you are using wifi within gideros studio to quickly test your app, you may install this apk on your phone https://github.com/mokalux/gideros-player-for-android (it includes harfbuzz)
      my growING GIDEROS github repositories: https://github.com/mokalux?tab=repositories
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    • AlaaAlaa Member
      Thanks a lot, it worked when I added the HarfBuzz plugin, and installed the new Gideros player on my android device.

      Likes: MoKaLux

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