Is it possible to install a J2ME application on a mobile that does not support the language mobile requires (like persian language)?

Question

Situation: I want to get a very simple J2ME mobile application developed that uses Persian language displaying the label and text, and this is to be installed on any mobile that runs J2ME (like nokia 1280).

Question: Is it possible to use Persian fonts and embed it in such a way that it is independent of mobile device (i.e. does not care if mobile has Persian language installed) or do we need to use png images as labels?

Answer 1

Standard MIDP2.1 and CLDC 1.1 doesn't have classes to let you use TTF fonts. The typical way of doing it, is to use a bitmap font. Bitmap fonts are fast to render, and lets you use a lot of colours (if you wish). The downside of bitmap fonts is that, in order to support multiple screen resolutions, you'll have create different sizes of the font.

http://mobilefonts.sourceforge.net/

But like any other platform, someone has of course developed a TTF library for JavaME (called TTME)

http://www.xiteapplet.de/

I remember checking out TTME some time back, and as expected TTF rendering is slow. (Because most JavaME enabled devices have lower-end CPU's and such).

My advice is to go for bitmap fonts or use individual PNG files for labels.