What characters are available on Android?

Question

I'd like to display some special Unicode characters in my Android app. These characters are not listed on droidfonts.com but they are displayed correctly on the emulator and on my phone, but want to be sure if all Android platforms will support them. Is it documented somewhere? Thanks!

EDIT

I'm looking for a method like canDisplay.

Answer 1

Android Support Unicode completely, but you need a Unicode font to display your characters as I know The Droid Sans font, from Android framework, contains the unicode character. but if you have are going to use from Unicode 6.0 new glyphs (like New Indian Roop) you have to use a font that supports it.

This article may help you : http://groups.google.com/group/android-framework/browse_thread/thread/73586caa2e06e052?pli=1 .

Also you can check this for more information : http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5925

Answer 2

Unfortunately different phones can have different versions of the standard system font (Droid Sans) that include or don't include certain Unicode glyphs. See: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5925

The only sure-fire solution is to include your own custom font that you know contains all the glyphs you need in your app. The next best thing is to use only a small subset of Unicode: US, European, Japanese, and Korean glyphs are a pretty safe bet in my experience.