[android-developers] Re: textview and unicode

Actually, the glyph for code point 20b8 is missing also, which is a
new currency symbol also, but I am not suppprting it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstani_tenge

On Jun 21, 8:28 am, Zsolt Vasvari <zvasv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 -- Hide quoted text -
>
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