does anybody know how to render these emoticons in Windows given the unicode charcode?
It looks like this icons or font are native to apple (as sayed here) but I don't know which one I can choose to render these glyphs in Windows
Thanks
If whatever you're using to display your text is working correctly and the user has a suitable font installed, then you don't need to do anything. Font substitution will take care of that and choose a font that contains glyphs for those characters.
Windows since 8.1 ships with Segoe UI Emoji, however, if you absolutely need a font to specify explicitly.
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Does anyone know which font is used in the Justunfollow iOS app?
I'm especially interested in the font used for displaying numbers (not sure if it's the same one used for text in the app).
maybe take a screenshot and upload it to 'WhatTheFont'?
http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
I am developing app for window phone 7 .I call one service that return me xml. This xml contain Arabic as well as English content. I can read English content but for Arabic character output look like this ?????????.
I want to display both Arabic and English content in my app please help me
Looking at the Segoe WP family of fonts I have on my computer (which I got by installing the WP7.5 dev tools), the font doesn't contain Arabic characters. This is why you're seeing question marks.
So, seems like you need to use some other available font which contains Arabic characters or embed your own entirely. See this link for a list of available fonts, the editor is a bit weird in the sense that it allows you to use any font even though there's just a limited set of fonts available.
I think the following post may help you:
Indic language display
I have a good free desktop font and it is free also for font embedding on the web.
The font uses Arabic Unicode and it is TrueType desktop font.
I want to use this font on my website. The problem that most web font converters or generators like font squirrel and typeface.js render the letters separately, not linked together.
I used this Unicode ranges to create the web fonts:
FE70-FEFF,0600-06FF,FB50-FDFF,0750-077F,0621-0652
This should convert all Arabic Unicode characters and should make the letters linked together or attached together like what happen on desktop font but that does not happen.
Can I just use the desktop font file itself without converting it?
What is the difference between a regular desktop font and web embedded font?
BTW, the font desktop file is only 27kb and I tested it in Firefox. It is working great if installed on the system (of course it is on my computer).
Yes, you can use the ttf file itself. Most browsers, except Internet Explorer 8 and lower, support this format.
To support IE8 as well, you must transform the font into an eot file and upload that too. Can't really recommend any specific font converter, having no experience with Arabic fonts, but I'm sure there must be others except fontsquirrel. Have you tried FontForge?
Anyway, in my experience, font files downloaded and installed into the user's system work far better than web fonts, because font support from within the browsers is far from optimal. Some fonts work, others don't with no indication why, yet others don't display well (with the wrong spacing, or as if there is no hinting, etc).
So if you do use a web font, make sure you a) test thoroughly in many different browsers, and b) provide good fallback fonts in the css, in case your webfont doesn't work.
I'm now learning iPhone development with Monotouch and use Mono Develop for IDE. Everything works fine and I'm going to buy a license for MonoTouch. However, the IDE can not display Thai text correctly.
It just display [] that is difficult for me to type message in Thai. Although this text display correct in runtime (iPhone Simulator).
I think this problem occurs in MonoDevelop.
Please could you help me to solve this problem.
PS. I tried everything that I can do. For example, change file format to UTF 8 , 16 and copy text from other programs that display Thai text correctly.
I'm looking forward to hearing from you
Theeranit
Unfortunately, the library that MonoDevelop uses for font rendering on Mac, called Pango, has problems with font fallbacks. That means that if the primary font doen't contain the character you want, it can't fall back to another font for that character.
You can work around this by setting a custom font in MonoDevelop preferences. Set it to a font that contains Thai characters.
Previously I used to piddle around with VB6 to develop a couple of personal projects. Following my upgrade to Windows 7, I've decided to piddle about with vb.net Express Edition 2010.
If I wanted my VB6 application to blend in with the visual style of Windows, I would use the code and techniques described here. In short, I would use a Manifest file and a couple of calls within the application and most of the elements would look similar to the XP theme applied. If it was run on 2000, 95 or 98 then it would look like a standard Windows app. All was good.
Now I've moved onto vb.net, I've written a simple "Hello, world" application but I have absolutely no idea on how to make it look like the Windows 7 theme (eg. the font matches the system font and the widgets are styled correctly).
Just changing the font is a hack and will look out of place on machines that are set-up differently or run a different version of Windows where the default font is different.
How do I ensure my application matches the applied Windows theme irrespective of the version of Windows?
A lot of this is automatic if you create a Windows Forms app. They will (mostly) use the standard native Windows controls which draw themselves with the theme colors. But there are exceptions:
the Form item template uses a default Font named Microsoft Sans Serif. You'll have to change it to Segoe UI to match the Vista/Win7 default. This is only necessary for the Form class, all controls you put on it will automatically inherit that font. On an XP machine, the Windows font mapper will notice that the font is missing and automatically fall back to MSS.
the MenuStrip class uses custom rendering to draw the menu items. It tries to match the Windows style when you change the RenderMode property to System but the way it draws doesn't match the Win7 style. Right-click the toolbox, Choose Items and select MainMenu. That's a legacy version that does use Windows to draw menus so it produces the proper theme appearance.
A very similar problem for ToolStrip. It's legacy version is ToolBar. This is a hard one to swallow, it doesn't use a rebar which make the tool bar look flat and ugly.
There are similar problems in WPF but with the added problem that WPF doesn't use any of the standard Windows controls. And gets it wrong in subtle places.