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OculisOrbis
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 Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 2:27 am Post subject: korean font for nokia e72 |
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anyone using a foreign e72 and was able to get korean fonts to display?
i am ready to change the product code from the philippines and upgrade the firmware, but i dont know which area to change it to....there is no korea area product code.
any ideas or easier methods?
i already installed the korean/english dictionary but the korean characters just show up as squares. |
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OculisOrbis
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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| ^^^ |
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SeoulFinn
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 12:48 am Post subject: |
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If you only want to be able to read Korean, looks like you need to save the Korean font (of your choice) to the right location. Being able to write Korean is more difficult... or impossible! Sorry!
See if the site below can help you. The instructions are easy enough. Although the post is about e71, I think it should work with e72 as well.
http://disposablejoe.blogspot.com/2009/06/changing-fonts-on-nokia-e71-so-i-have.html
Please don't forget to post if you are successful! |
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OculisOrbis
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 7:16 am Post subject: |
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| Spent the past two days and a total of over 20 hours trying to get it to work. I tried the procedure from the link and about 15 others using about 10 different fonts and all I ever got were black squares instead of korean characters. Ready to give up. If anyone has it working, please share how you did it....... |
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tatertot
Joined: 21 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 7:33 am Post subject: |
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| OculisOrbis wrote: |
| Spent the past two days and a total of over 20 hours trying to get it to work. I tried the procedure from the link and about 15 others using about 10 different fonts and all I ever got were black squares instead of korean characters. Ready to give up. If anyone has it working, please share how you did it....... |
I don't have a Nokia phone, but I did struggle getting Korean subtitles to show up in XBMC. Eventually I installed ARIALUNI.ttf and it worked. The particular download I found was about 22 MB. This information might not help you, but you mentioned that you tried about 10 fonts. I thought that maybe if you hadn't tried this one, it might be worth a shot. Good luck. |
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OculisOrbis
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Gave it a shot. Didnt work is an understatement - now my phone wont even start-up. Have to be a miniSD adapter so I can remove the card and delete the files without using the USB/phone connection. Hopefully, it's not bricked. (Update: removed the miniSD and restarted...seems ok, but that font causes issues. No more experimenting until I get that adapter for the miniSD and get that font deleted so the phone will start with the card inserted again.) |
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tatertot
Joined: 21 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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| OculisOrbis wrote: |
| Gave it a shot. Didnt work is an understatement - now my phone wont even start-up. Have to be a miniSD adapter so I can remove the card and delete the files without using the USB/phone connection. Hopefully, it's not bricked. (Update: removed the miniSD and restarted...seems ok, but that font causes issues. No more experimenting until I get that adapter for the miniSD and get that font deleted so the phone will start with the card inserted again.) |
I'm sorry to hear that. I wasn't trying to get you to F up your phone when I made that post. Anyway, good luck with getting this figured out. |
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OculisOrbis
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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| I got access to the card again. The start-up glitch was my fault for mis-naming one of the files. Renamed it and everything starts again with no problems, but still no korean visible. |
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OculisOrbis
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| Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 5:10 am Post subject: |
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| Another full day with no success............. |
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archmagos
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OculisOrbis
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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| i can find the font,,,it's just that they wont display. |
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archmagos
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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| OculisOrbis wrote: |
| i can find the font,,,it's just that they wont display. |
Hmmm ... I take it that a hard reset of the phone regenerates the font cache?
Could you describe in detail what your actual steps have been (eg create folder and copy fonts there)?
Are you always reading from the same source to test your fonts and getting black squares then? |
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OculisOrbis
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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I did what was described in your link (and many others) with a number of small variations, unsuccessfully. The font files are in a locked folder on the phones system drive and the copies of font files put in the folder on the sd card are supposed load before the those on the phones drive. I have been able to get the font display to change, but never with korean characters - it always defaults back to the original firmware font or show the korean as squares in any case.
I even changed my product code on the phone to a different region and updated the firmaware thinking it might work if I made my phone a Hong Kong or Singapore region phone.
The are also two programs that I tried called flipfont and fountrouter - neither will install on an E72.
I cant even get access to the system folders to delete the system font and replace it since my current firmware is not hackable. After nearly a week of trying and researching, I have only heard rumors of anyone doing it successfully. Other asian languages, no problem. Korean, not a chance from what I have found. |
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archmagos
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| OculisOrbis wrote: |
| I cant even get access to the system folders to delete the system font and replace it since my current firmware is not hackable. |
Are you using just a general file browser to see the phone? I have heard that programs like x-plore may help you modify the root directories of the phone:
http://www.lonelycatgames.com/?app=xplore
However, this probably won't solve your problem as it is obviously reading the Korean fonts (black squares), but just not displaying them properly. Again I have no experience in Symbian, but does it accept other forms of fonts (non-ttf ones if the black sqaures is related to that)?
I'll admit that I'm at a loss here. This probably enough to turn me off the idea of getting a Symbian phone until Nokia sort basic stuff like this out (ie buying a language pack is not an acceptable substitute for just letting users implement fonts properly in the first place). However, even if you did buy a language pack it should just make a few changes to actually get the fonts working. There must be a solution somehow ... |
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OculisOrbis
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, I have X-plore and Ybrowser that allow me to SEE the system file, but I can not make any changes to them unless the phone is hacked. That's how I know that I did, in fact, rename the font files correctly on my sd card.
The E72 will display ONLY ttf files. There is no other option.
I would recommend NOT getting a nokia phone (unless it's the sweet n97 model, but even then, I dont know about its korean capabilities). For some reason, it seems that the E72 is the only model that it seems impossible to display korean.
Even if a language pack with korean fonts displayed were available to purchase from , it would be erased anytime you upgraded the firmware - and you would have to go to a nokia service center and have it installed again....and pay again. |
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