Thai font for webOS

Well, after HP dumped #webOS device w/o caring how many languages those devices can read. We, as a user, are supposed to be on our own then.

Here is fonts you need to replace, Arial & Prelude families. These are sorta main fonts in webOS. Actually you can replace only Prelude for webOS 2.x or older, but likely you need both for webOS 3.

What I have done? You definitely can copy any font w/ Thai character and rename to Prelude for all webOS 2.x or below. restart Luna once. It will work. However, I just like to have Prelude as it was. I only add Thai characters to that font. So as in this Arial.

How can you replace these fonts? there are many possible ways to do so, but I guess you have to have some sort of shell, XTerm preferably, and surely you probably need to have Preware first. Then you should be able to simply copy this font over the original one.

root@Touchpad: /var/home/root# cp /media/internal/newfont/* /usr/share/fonts/

Once you copy these over, restart Luna once. All set =) If you need anything else, just give me a shout in comment =)

ps. well, FYI, I did put Thai character of TH SarabunNew into webOS’s Arial and Thonburi’s into Prelude.

note: due to excessive spamming, I couldn’t approve real people comments in time. I have to delete spams in database instead. If you guys which have a problem are still around, let me know again. Sorry for inconvenience. I think I’ll move to #Disqus avoiding this issue as soon as possible.

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  • ronnie

    I download you font and use WebOS Quick Install v4.3.1 to install , restart Touchpad but still not working.

  • Moss

    Hi, Thanks for the fonts and the instructions, however, i have no clue about linux command.
    I have installed xterm and was able to get to the command line but don’t know the linux command. I’m not sure where to save the downloaded fonts, what to type in there to get it to copy the files over the exist ones. If you don’t mind helping that would be great.
    Thanks,
    Moss

  • Panom

    How about Thai keyboard? I really need it also. I am very exciting about my first WebOS device after using iOS device for many years.
    Thank you.

  • http://mycapsules.com sipp11

    well this font pack is no longer working in webOS 3.0.4; I will update to new one asap.

  • Irwin Upmeyer

    Thanks!

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  • Anonymous

    Eventually I will never miss a single comment again. Sorry guys.

  • Sakchai Tejavej

    I need to have Thai for my HP TouchPad but have no idea how to add them in since I am not and expert but user only.

    I need your help by telling me step by step.

    sipp11 Reply:

    Have you had Preware installed? you’ll need that.

    sipp11 Reply:

    basically I’ll need you to tell me what Desktop OS you are using. So I could do step-by-step things for you. OSX & Linux would be easier.