[REQ] Non-english fonts

Hi!

Firstly I would like to say "Thanks!" for this wonderful skin to the authors - it is really impressing.

Only one thing makes me unhappy - I can not use non-english (cyrillic) translations and names of films and TV-Shows, as the embedded fonts in Night theme do not support non-english characters.

Could you please add the multi-language fonts or to give me a short "HOW-TO" for embedding such fonts by myself?

Thank you!

i know what you mean... for me its just the german umlauts, but i think for french or spain people, there is that problem too...

i like the current fonts, but maybe there is somebody who want to help us with the fonts...

guess it's worse for the arabic, israeli, russian, asian countries then the german\spanish\french

I have tried to look around the Night fonts, and there are 16 different fonts in this theme, so it's a bit hard to figure out the exact fonts needed:

9 alaska fonts (only english)

2 default fonts (english and russian)

1 digital_clock (english and russian)

2 Scout fonts (english only)

2 title fonts (english and russian)

So the problem is in Scout and Alaska fonts

zwat Wrote:guess it's worse for the arabic, israeli, russian, asian countries then the german\spanish\french

really?! i cant imagine that


i know i know... its just an cometic thing for some europe people like german, spainish, french cause only some letters... for arabic, israeli, russian, asian ppl its for all letters... but the issue is the same...

There are a lot of other skin which use "more international" fonts, so i think it should be a target for NIGHT too...

I'll spend a lazy weekend one of these days and see what I can come up with...

I like your skin very much (been using it for about two weeks.
As i am using hebrew, i've started simply using only one font (arial).
Unfortunatly i have not saved my work and it got deleted in todays update.
Anyway, i've restarted again and i would like to do it properly for hebrew audience to enjoy this skin.
My biggest trouble at the moment is guessing what font title blong to which skin text.
I have the skin reload keymapped and i'm doing a lot of guess work.

1. Is there any easier way ?
2. Where can i post my work for it to appear in the skin ? even if it isn't 100% done, at least it works.

Thank you

vago Wrote:I like your skin very much (been using it for about two weeks.
As i am using hebrew, i've started simply using only one font (arial).
Unfortunatly i have not saved my work and it got deleted in todays update.
Anyway, i've restarted again and i would like to do it properly for hebrew audience to enjoy this skin.
My biggest trouble at the moment is guessing what font title blong to which skin text.
I have the skin reload keymapped and i'm doing a lot of guess work.

1. Is there any easier way ?
2. Where can i post my work for it to appear in the skin ? even if it isn't 100% done, at least it works.

Thank you

It's still on my roadmap to switch out the fonts, I was sick for a week so lost time there. I tried the easy solution and globally swapped all the fonts but it screwed all the spacing up. So I'm going to have to do it the hard way and change them and redo the positioning. Thats on next weeks schedule...

i was lookin at the font.xml and i thought i would set it up differently. what about calling the font for what it is?
like font ariel size 12 call it ariel12
font ariel size 13 bold call it ariel13b

now they they are called what u use them for
bartowski_big_title is font ariel size 12
and bartowski_big_year is also font ariel size 12
this system use more code for same font.

what do u think?

I think the font name is finnaly normal in the way that it represents it use.
Yes, this could also made using comments but I hardly see anyone doing it.