Default font

[ashf]

I think the way font assigned by Affinity should be changed for non English languages.
Substitute fonts no longer work from Ventura.
This problem constantly raised by Japanese users.
They don't expect that they should select Japanese font first.
(Also changing font on blank text object often doesn't work.)

Here's suggestions.

- Japanese font should be the default font with Japanese UI.  Arial does not contain Japanese characters.
- If pasted/typed text includes non Ascii characters, a multilingual font should be assigned at least.

Here's a related topic.

 

[MikeTO]

It does seems like there could be a way to ease the setup for Japanese and Chinese users without changing the whole approach to default fonts.

Perhaps when changing the user interface to Japanese the app could check if the user had not set a default font of their own and if not prompt the user with something like "The default font is Arial which does not support Japanese characters. Do you want to change the default font to Hiragino?" On Windows it would likely be Yu Gothic.

And something similar for Chinese.

[ashf]

1 hour ago, MikeTO said:

It does seems like there could be a way to ease the setup for Japanese and Chinese users without changing the whole approach to default fonts.

Perhaps when changing the user interface to Japanese the app could check if the user had not set a default font of their own and if not prompt the user with something like "The default font is Arial which does not support Japanese characters. Do you want to change the default font to Hiragino?" On Windows it would likely be Yu Gothic.

And something similar for Chinese.

Yeah, that's a viable option.

[ashf]

FYI,
Adobe and MS apps automatically assign a proper font to pasted/typed text regardless of UI languages or predefined fonts.

e.g.

Adobe uses Myriad Pro as the default font for English.
But when I paste/type text, KozGoPro(Adobe's default Japanese font) will be assigned to text automatically.
Even with English UI.