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themes with font support for both arabic and english other than stock?

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seafantm:
i tried so many different themes and changed a lot of settings trying to make the once i like work with arabic letters but i had no luck i would appreciate any help if someone else found a theme or figured a way to make them work by changing some settings
-AIGO EROS Q / K (HIFI WALKER H2)

speachy:

--- Quote from: seafantm on June 02, 2025, 07:50:19 PM ---i tried so many different themes and changed a lot of settings trying to make the once i like work with arabic letters but i had no luck i would appreciate any help if someone else found a theme or figured a way to make them work by changing some settings
-AIGO EROS Q / K (HIFI WALKER H2)

--- End quote ---

Most themes with custom fonts don't include coverage beyond the Latin-derived scripts.

This page shows the language coverage of the fonts that Rockbox distributes as part of its full font bundle:

https://translate.rockbox.org/whichfont.php

According to that, only four of our fonts have full Arabic coverage; perhaps you could alter a theme you like to use one of these fonts instead?

(BTW, our Arabic translation is _very_ incomplete; if you are so inclined any update/contribution would be very welcome)

Dook:
I've been working on language support for my themes (adwaitapod and Themify) It's not perfect yet, but I have a new approach that is currently in testing. If you are interested in trying it out I'll leave the link and let me know if it works. Once complete, I'll be sharing this as best I can to encourage themes to support more languages.

language test theme

speachy:
I've also been thinking about other ways to improve character coverage without having to make every font cover everything.  This could come in the form of (for a given font size) one or more "fallback" fonts when the primary/selected font comes up short.

Anyway.

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