I'm working with fonts for a small language called Dhivehi (Maldivian). The alphabet is called "Thaana". There are a number of Unicode fonts available for it (such as Microsoft's MV Boli). It is written right-to-left. While it appears perfectly on web browsers on laptops, it does not appear correctly on mobile-phone based browsers.
I'm using the following CSS code to apply the fonts:
@font-face {
font-family: 'Eamaan';
src: url('http://www.sun.mv/css/MvEamaanXP.ttf') format('truetype');
}
.thaana{direction:rtl; float:right; unicode-bidi: bidi-override;font-size:16pt;
float: left;font-family:"Eamaan"; padding:2%;}
For my HTML, I'm using the following:
<p class="thaana">މިއީ ހަމަ ރަގަޅު ކަމެކެވެ</p>
And this produces legible writing on a web browser, however it doesn't work at all (for me) on any mobile-phone based browsers.
Any help would be appreciated.
I wonder if the issue is the use of true-type fonts. Chrome (Blink) and WebKit browsers (Android stock) are supposed to support true-type, yet when I run this code in Chrome on my desktop I don't see Eamaan getting rendered.
This site uses Waheed and they're using the open-type font version which renders in Chrome fine. If the open-type font of Eamaan is available in the URL of your font-face
rule, I'd suggest adding it.
Example:
@font-face {
font-family: 'Eamaan';
src: url('http://www.sun.mv/css/MvEamaanXP.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('http://www.sun.mv/css/MvEamaanXP.otf') format('opentype');
}
You may want to expand it further to include .eot
, .woff
, and .svg
for full support for font-face
:
@font-face {
font-family: 'MyWebFont';
src: url('webfont.eot'); /* IE9 Compat Modes */
src: url('webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), /* IE6-IE8 */
url('webfont.woff') format('woff'), /* Modern Browsers */
url('webfont.ttf') format('truetype'), /* Safari, Android, iOS */
url('webfont.svg#svgFontName') format('svg'); /* Legacy iOS */
}