Retroarch: [intl] Arabic renders as boxes

Created on 26 Dec 2018 · 11Comments · Source: libretro/RetroArch

Description

When selecting languages Arabic appears as only boxes.

Expected behavior

Arabic should be rendered.

Actual behavior

arabic

Steps to reproduce the bug

Go to Settings -> User -> Language and then scroll through all languages until boxes appear.

Bisect Results

This never worked, I bisected this and found it started when Arabic support was merged.

commit 45580cb9a8f0fcd0a87f00eadf26d87f05289485
Author: aliaspider <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Feb 5 20:54:55 2018 +0100

    add basic support for arabic.

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Version/Commit

You can find this information under Information/System Information

RetroArch: https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/commit/fcf75fda170ede591cb37361f8a41a8f25f37404

Environment information

OS: Slackware64-current
Compiler: gcc-8.2.0

bisected arabic text font rendering

Source

orbea

Most helpful comment

The monochrome font doesn't have the arabic characters, you need to provide your own font
Retrosystem theme uses Dejavu Sans, which does have them (but doesn't have japanese unlike the default)
captura

alfrix on 26 Dec 2018

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All 11 comments

@aliaspider Can you please look at this?

orbea on 26 Dec 2018

alfrix on 26 Dec 2018

👍2

Thanks for the information, but since all the other languages are supported by the default font maybe there is something that be done here to improve this?

orbea on 26 Dec 2018

we could merge the glyphs from dejavu to the default font, i'll do it when i have a chance, probably in the weekend

alfrix on 26 Dec 2018

Thanks! I appreciate it.

orbea on 26 Dec 2018

@orbea The monochrome font doesn't support Chinese either... you only get glyphs that happen to be unified with Japanese.

bparker06 on 26 Dec 2018

Good point, I didn't notice that one.

orbea on 26 Dec 2018

Maybe Greek too? https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/7429

orbea on 26 Dec 2018

Test font with arabic font.zip
merged m+ 1p regular + DejaVu Sans Condensed
imho we should choose a font with full CJK support, and then add others if necessary
unless someone can provide a very similar font to m+ that isn't noticeable when mixed

alfrix on 29 Dec 2018

It looks good to me, but someone who actually speaks Arabic would probably be able to judge better.