Hey guys,
Hurray for NGUI supporting dynamic Fonts! Life saver and thanks to all those who worked on that.
This morning I was trying to get the Arab font working for my game and I just managed to do that. I'm just sharing this to save other people some work and perhaps even get some feedback.
Basically for the UILabel, it was super easy.
myLabel.text = UnityPersianPatcher.PersianCharacterPatcher.Patch(arabicText);
myLabel.pivot = UIWidget.Pivot.Right;
I used the Unity Persian Patcher, which is used to create actual Arab words out of the separate characters. Little lesson about Arab (which I only learned this morning), the characters change depending on their adjacent characters, unlike Western characters, which stay the same no matter what they're surrounded by.
It's a free asset and I would recommend it over the 2 45 USD alternatives, which seem to offer nothing more.
Done deal, as simple as that.
Then my second 'challenge' was to fix this for the UIInput-class, since my Arab customers also fancy a chat.
Since I had to make many changes there, I just added the class UIInputML (ML= MultiLanguage & yes I know it's only Arab) to this post. All changes are commented (wherever it says
, I actually made a change.
It worked on my iOS device, where of course I had to use my Arab keyboard (Settings > General > Keyboard > Keyboards > Add New Keyboard... > Arabic) to see that it worked.
Specs:
Worked with: Mac Mini - OSX Unity 4.1.0f4
Tested on: iPad Mini - iOS 6.1.3
Complications:
I did not manage to type Arab text in the UIInput, while working in the Editor.
[EDIT] I just found out the numbers don't work properly. Will work on that later!
[EDIT2] I also found out Multiline doesn't work. Maybe I shouldn't have uploaded this yet
