Is it possible to install different fonts on windows phone 7 emulator?

Question

I made a demo application using Silverlight where I have given certain Unicode of Hindi language to be displayed on a textbox as a text. ऋ ऊ उ ई इ आ, unicode positions are '\u090B', '\u090A', '\u0909', '\u0908', '\u0907','\u0906' respectively.

So when I pass this whole thing as a string to the textbox.text property it shows at the debug time as the exact value is to the textbox but when I go through the emulator the display shows empty boxes.

Is this require installation of different fonts on emulator? If so then how can I do this? Is it possible to build an application for Windows Phone 7 which can support different languages?

Answer 1

You can embed fonts in your WP7 applications in the same way that you embed fonts for any Silverlight application as decribed in the Embedding fonts in Silvelright blog post by Paul Yanez. You simply check the Embed checkbox in the Text pane in Expression Blend.

NOTE: You will need to make sure that you are licensed to use the font in this way or that it is free for use in this way.