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I have a font zoomer app on my Nokia C7 and I want to use custom fonts. I have tried some that were great, but I found a problem - most only support English. Anything written in Arabic is messed up. Now the font Ariel does support Arabic, but I don't want to use that for English. Is there away to merge two fonts, Ariel and another, so that Ariel is used for Arabic and the other font is used for English? I tried Font Forge but it didn't work.

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susendeep dutta
2013-01-28 15:28:56
Try FlipFont app -http://store.ovi.com/content/20038#
Meena Bassem
2013-01-29 21:36:56
it's not supported for C7
Meena Bassem
2013-01-28 12:13:25
there is no problem with the phone, it works fine,i just want to use a custom font,it's cool for english but it doesn't seem to have arabic characters in it and they appear all just like spaces. i was wandering if i can add arabic characters to that font from another font file.any suggestions?
ha14
2013-01-29 16:31:30
some discussion here can point to some solutionshttp://www.dafont.com/forum/read/8989/helpHow to combine characters to make a unique wordhttp://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3473
Meena Bassem
2013-01-29 23:03:12
well, still can't find a way to combine two fonts together. any other suggestions?
ha14
2013-01-30 21:45:49
creating a new font is not easy!•Load up the fonts which aren't falling into the same group with FontForge (•Element > Font Info:)perhaps to give the same name for the two fonts like EnglArab, then file-Generate FontMerge Fonts... http://fontforge.org/elementmenu.html#Mergehow to combine asian font and western font as one combined fonthttp://superuser.com/questions/453480/how-to-combine-asian-font-and-western-font-as-one-combined-fontread the last answer fontlabhttp://forum.fontlab.com/index.php?topic=8691.0use Paste Special and select the option to ignore destination selection, map glyphs by name. This allows you to import a large number of glyphs from another font in non-matching order without overwriting Unicode values in the destination font.
Meena Bassem
2013-01-30 23:37:49
still not working quite fine.i use that software called the font thinghttp://www.softpedia.com/get/Others/Font-Utils/The-Font-Thing.shtmlto check if the fonts are done correctly.FontForge does nothing better than crashing, font lab is quite ok but i think i don't really know how to use it correctly.where can i find a quick tutorial about how to use it to just do that thing?,maybe a tutorial or how to do it in 1-2-3 likei know i started to be annoying but i really want to do thisand thanks alot ha14.for your help.
ha14
2013-01-28 10:48:50
take your phone to Nokia Care Point and ask them to install a language pack that includes Arabic language. Your phone was not for arabic countries so perhaps they will ask you to pay and not covered with warranty. Be aware updating the firmware will probably make the phone revert to its original language set, you will lose Arabic language and you will have to re-install the font.
Switchblade Rebirth
2013-01-28 09:25:55
Not possible. You'd better find another font that you will like in both English and Arabic.
Réy Aétar
2013-01-28 07:26:41
no u cant only one font at a time
Anay Chaubal
2013-01-28 03:37:54
Why not use a phone with native support for both languages? It is a known fact that using custom fonts, will mess up your phone. Not immediately, but in the near future, you will have to do a factory restore. My advice is to switch to a phone with native support for both languages, as well as the ability to use large on screen fonts. many 2nd tier phone makers have an android based accessibility enabled device or something along these lines.