Displaying Foreign Languages in WebGL

[tliu7]

I am translating a game into Simplified Chinese. Characters in scripts and unity objects display just fine in the PC-built. However, the WebGL-built would not display correctly (They are ignored—no space or random texts).

I did some digging, and it appears WebGL does not have access to the font in OS as the pc-built does.

To fix that, I import a font that supports simplified Chinese into the assets folder. For unity objects, I can change the default font (Arial) to the font (Microsoft YaHei) I imported.

However, for the characters in scripts, the documentation (Unity - Manual: Font) says you need to save the C# code in UTF-16 encoding for Unicode support. I did that, but the codes will not compile. I think this is not the issue cause the pc-built works just fine.

From my searches in the unity forum, it appears there is an order of fallback fonts unity uses. I chose Microsoft YaHei because it is on that list. Yet, the WebGL-built will not display correctly even I had the TTF file imported and try different settings. Change the font property like “character” from dynamic to Unicode or ASCII.

I also manually defined the fallback order by importing both Arial and MS-YaHei. It still does nothing.

Here are some posts in the forum regarding similar issues.

Enabling unicode in html5 builds

WebGL Fallback Font Not Displaying in Build (again, I know...)

Hello - I've read everything I can find on this topic. I have an in-game terminal that uses GUI layout and labels for text display. Text is generated mostly via loading external files. The game allows swapping between languages and needs to support international characters. I have imported fonts, set up fallback names, twiddled settings, and so on.. and on. Things work fine in editor, but there's no display of east Asian or Arabic chars when built and run in various browsers. Maybe I'm just too …

Font issue with WebGL although I added the font

Sorry if this question has been asked. I looked through the forums and didn't find it. So here is my situation, I am trying to use the arial font in unity in WebGL. The problem is that the unit default arial font does not work in unity. This is fine. I added the Arial.ttf font to my assets. This works as it uses the font and makes it look arial. However I am having to use some unicode coding to do subscripts and superscripts. This works fin in my editor or standalone versions but in WEBGL it…

Fallback font not used

Hi, I'm new to Unity and I'm having a problem with fallback fonts - I'm trying to get Unity to use Japanese fallback font in WebGL build, but it doesn't display Japanese characters at all there. I created a simple sample project illustrating the issue. There are two fonts: - Roboto-Regular.ttf (without Japanese characters) - Roboto-Regular-With-Fallback.ttf (with Japanese characters) The second font is included in the font references of the first font in import settings. Unity seems to ha…

Japanese Hiragana Characters don't work in WebGL?

Hey I made a WebGL build of an app I was working on and noticed only English characters work in the Unity UI. Japanese characters work in the Editor, PC and Android just fine but NOT WebGL. Is this a bug? Unity 5.2.0p1. Windows 10. Tested in Chrome and Firefox.

Any feedback or suggestions are welcomed! Thank you.

[jinxed_byte]

Have you tried this?

TextMeshPro - Dynamic Font Asset Creation Process

[tliu7]

@jinxed_byte

Have you tried this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY1xKqCIj3c

Thank you. I will look into that. The majority of translation is done in C# codes. Would TextMeshPro work as well?