[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] romcio47:
[GUIDE NOT FOR NOOBIES][HOW-TO][WINDOWS ONLY] Fix custom font "question mark" problem

Hello again!

As you may know, almost every custom font has got this problem. These strange question marks (or other) that appears very often in many places with text.

In my favourite custom font called Zrnic this symbol looked like this:

In my case this was mainly appearing:

- in YT apk while reading comments:

- in Titanium Backup Pro while browsing app list:

- and even when receiving SMS:

Finally I got pissed off and thought about fixing this annoying bug.

While I was browsing some threads on the Internet I've found a little bit tricky way how to get rid of it. I wasn't sure about the 100% success on Android but I've tried this fix and IT WORKED!

This guide will be the step-by-step one mainly because the program you will use to fix the font bug is in Japanese. Personally I don't know it but it was easy to intuitively do some clicks :D

I warn you - this is not for noobies, only advanced users should proceed as I probably won't do any video guide soon.

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Files you need:

- Font Installer *ROOT* by JRUMMY16 - install this program and find yourself some nice font.

- .ttf file with your bugged font (for Font Installer *ROOT* the directory for the font is sd/romtoolbox/fonts/previews

- Japanese version of fontforge ported to cygwin. THIS WORKS ONLY ON WINDOWS!

Optional (if link above doesn't work):

http://www.geocities.jp/meir000/fontforge/ - file called "fontforge-cygwin_2011_06_06.zip (20MB)"

Things you need to do:

1. Download your .ttf file to your computer.

2. Download ported fontforge to your computer.

3. Unpack fontforge-cygwin_2011_06_06.zip and open that folder.

4. Run fontforge.bat and wait PATIENTLY for the cmd to unpack all the files you need and start the program. It takes a minute or more. Just wait.

5. Finally you will see this window

6. Select your .ttf file directory from the expandable menu and open that .ttf file

7. After opening .ttf file you will see this window

8. Scroll up until you see this. Select the very first symbol called "space". Mostly it's to the left of exclamation mark. Click on that symbol and press CTRL+C

9. Now a little bit hard part. Scroll down until you see this (help yourself a bit by clicking to different symbols until you find "U+FEFF")

10. While highliting this symbol, press CTRL+V. Congrats! You have almost fixed your problem! :)

11. Right-click on this symbol and select this option

12. Change EVERY VARIABLE TO "0"! And click OK.

13. Now you only have to generate your new .ttf file. Click these things.

14. Rename your font to "FontName"-Fixed.ttf and from the expandable menu right under the file name select TrueType. Click on the button with "somethingjapanese"(S).

Then click this

15. Congrats! Font generated! You can close the window, click on the X button on the top and select this option

Ok, that's all with font editing. Now some work with your phone.

1. Backup your original .ttf file with non-fixed font somewhere else.

2. Change "FontName"-Fixed.ttf to "FontName".ttf

3. Place this font back to sd/romtoolbox/fonts/previews OVERWRITING ORIGINAL FONT WITH THE FIXED ONE.

4. Run Font Installer *ROOT*.

5. Find again your font, tap it and select install (don't delete it because you will have to oerwrite it again!).

6. Reboot and... enjoy your fixed font ;)

If you did everything right after reboot you should see this:

IF THIS HELPED YOU, CLICK THANKS! :)