#6967: haiku does not display Arabic characters anymore ------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: khallebal | Owner: pulkomandy Type: bug | Status: assigned Priority: normal | Milestone: R1 Component: - General | Version: R1/Development Resolution: | Keywords: Blocked By: | Has a Patch: 0 Platform: All | Blocking: ------------------------+------------------------------ Comment (by pulkomandy): Yes, the font overlay currently always falls back to VLGothic, which has japanese chars, but not hebrew nor arabic ones. So if your main font doesn't have these characters, the current fallback will not work. The two options are : * Make a more complete font overlay that select the most appropriate font for the missing chars (but evaluating similarity between two fonts is not easy); * Include a font with a complete unicode coverage as the fallback font in Haiku. Such a font would be really big and may not look nice. * Make the fallback font locale dependant. Mapping a locale to a font may not be easy, either. -- Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/6967#comment:8> Haiku <http://dev.haiku-os.org> Haiku - the operating system.