Stages in localization 2.1 System fonts and codepage 2.2 Locale settings 2.3 Keyboard driver 2.4 Printer drivers 2.5 Built-in applications 3. The Symbian platform is a new generation operating system from Symbian, combining compactness, high-speed and robustness. Nonetheless, the Symbian platform was designed with hardware localization in mind. However, for countries with low sales volumes this approach is not practical. This solution must also be absolutely transparent from the user's point of view, and require as little disk space as possible.
Font files provide the pixel patterns used for drawing characters.
Each file usually contains one size of a font, for example Arial 10-pixel high. The concept is fairly simple, though. Designing fonts may quite complicated, although there are some tools that can assist here. The first font file with a given name overrides all subsequent ones. However it is strongly recommended that you do not put font files onto a removable disk - this can make the system unusable if that disk is subsequently removed.