While we are on the topic of missing glyphs -- are there plans for adding the new symbol for Indian Rupee, code point 20B9?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rupee_sign It's probably the only currency glyph still missing from Android and since my app deals with currencies, it's now displaying a square. On Jun 20, 10:09 pm, Yahel <kaye...@gmail.com> wrote: > As Zsolt and Kostya already told you Android won't have a font that > includes such special characters. > > The one you seem to want to use looks like a printer thingy. If you > are trying to use unicode characters as icons then you'd better start > using Pngs for your icons. Including a font that would hold all of the > fancy characters in unicode up to #5000 will add at least 1-2 Mb to > the overall size of your app. > > A png saved for web in 48x48 is less than 10 Ko. And you can use it as > the background of your text field. > > Yahel > > On 20 juin, 14:25, dashman <erjdri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > i'm setting some text into textview > > > .setText( "\u2399" ); > > > not working - shows up as a box. > > > help!- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
