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Old 09-30-2019, 03:12 AM   #1
nkluan
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Replace Avenir font with another for better display of Vietnamese in Header/Footer

Hi everyone,

I find out that Vietnamese titles are not displayed properly in header/footer of my Forma, which was updated to latest firmware. The reason is Avenir font, which is used in header/footer, does not support Vietnamese. I'm thinking of 02 solutions to the problem:

1. Looking for a patch that enable custom font to be used in header/footer. Seems like such patch does not exist at the moment.

2. Find an open-source font that support Vietnamese. Using a font-editing software to rename such font into "Avenir" and copy it to my Forma. After a reboot, the system will use this sideloaded "Avenir" font instead of the default, true Avenir font. I was successful in using this method to replace Georgia with Arial.

This time, the problem is I don't know precisely information of true Avenir font used by the system. Can anybody help me on where I can obtain those information, such as 'Font family name', 'full name', 'postscript', 'style group'... ?

Thank you in advance
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