m6_font_import tool

[Uzime]

Extract to "m6_font_import" folder and copy the folder to C:\
Edit the font.txt file in notepad and enter the name of the font you want to use.

EG:
One Stroke Script LET
700
0x0021 0x00ff
0x0400 0x04f0

Then save the text file.



Copy the resource.bin file you want to use to the font patch folder.

Click on start menu and select run then type in "cmd" to open a command window.

In the command window type "cd C:\" and press enter to go to C: drive.
Then type "cd m6_font_import" and press enter to go to the font patch folder.
Then type "m6_font_import.exe resource.bin font.txt out.bin" to run the patch which will create "out.bin".
Copy out.bin to your player and rename it resource.bin then reboot as normal to load the resources and your new font.

The easiest wat to check out what fonts are available on your PC and their names is to use something like Microsoft Word to preview the fonts in the drop down menu.



You can also go to www.dafont.com and download thousands of free fonts which you just need to copy to the C:\Windows\Fonts directory.

EDIT: oooops a bit slow......

OK THIS is WHERE I GET CONFUSED , what resource bin file ??????
can u guys brake it down to lamen's term , I 'm almost there
but in the cmd window when I do the "m6_font_import.exe resource.bin font.txt out.bin" it tells me Importing....
Failed to open input file.
Please help :D
Laters Haters,

[Asmo]

Could you export all fonts ( in bitmap format will be ok ) in the official resource.bin? So we can know which character need to import.

If the bitmaps could come with the range that will be great!

See the first post.

[Erag0n]

See the first post.

Any address or offset for that font ?

[Asmo]

Any address or offset for that font ?

Offset? Where? In resource.bin 16x16 font is kept in block #26, 20x20 - in block #27.

[Erag0n]

Offset? Where? In resource.bin 16x16 font is kept in block #26, 20x20 - in block #27.

Sorry , again . How I access resource.bin to block #26 #27
What program to use open ? Thank you If you don't mind, I try to mod. in Thai lang.

[Asmo]

Sorry , again . How I access resource.bin to block #26 #27
What program to use open ? Thank you If you don't mind, I try to mod. in Thai lang.

There is no program to do it (except mine) and the font format is not obvious. Say what modifications you want and maybe I can help you.

[Erag0n]

I need to adjust Ident of some font , I attach photo thai lang tag from ipod to you to make you more understand thai lang. ID format

** My thai lang tag have some char OVER the char; Some char UNDER char , not like english is sort 123ABC
Now I already Thai bitmap font each char in *.bmp file, Any help me pls
Thai user to much waiting for this after now M6 can read Thai on M6 about 90 % We need to make more correct.

[Hotsport]

Our Thai language is like this
"สวัสดีครับทุกๆท่าน...ผมอีทีซี"
But now our meizu M6 Show its like this
"สว ัสด ีคร ับท ุกๆท ่ าน...ผมอ ีท ีซ ี"
If above Thai sentences doesn't appear please install
Thai font on your computer.

Hope this might give you some idea on how to fix it.

Thanks in advance

[Asmo]

Our Thai language is like this
"สวัสดีครับทุกๆท่าน...ผมอีทีซี"
But now our meizu M6 Show its like this
"สว ัสด ีคร ับท ุกๆท ่ าน...ผมอ ีท ีซ ี"
If above Thai sentences doesn't appear please install
Thai font on your computer.

Hope this might give you some idea on how to fix it.

Thanks in advance

Oh guys, I've forgotten to warn you... Thai language is one of the languages that require complex glyph shaping...
That means that the input number of code points doesn't equal to output number of glyphs to represent these code points. In the example you've given:
these 4 code points 0x3626 0x3623 0x3633 0x3626 must be shown as 3 glyphs. This problem can't be solved without unicode shaping engine... If Meizu opened the source of the firmware I would add here normal vector fonts and support of the languages with complex scripts. For now it's impossible, sorry.

[Erag0n]

Oh guys, I've forgotten to warn you... Thai language is one of the languages that require complex glyph shaping...
That means that the input number of code points doesn't equal to output number of glyphs to represent these code points. In the example you've given:
these 4 code points 0x3626 0x3623 0x3633 0x3626 must be shown as 3 glyphs. This problem can't be solved without unicode shaping engine... If Meizu opened the source of the firmware I would add here normal vector fonts and support of the languages with complex scripts. For now it's impossible, sorry.

Thank you to quick answer , Hope meizu open firmware

[Hotsport]

Well we all know that it's a complex language.
Let's hope Meizu open source the firmware.

Thanks anyway Asmo

[Uzime]

It is amazing to see that only questions posted by geeks get answer by other geeks (right away) , I thought this website was to help people with different issues with their player or to teach them on "How to" not so.....
I just wanted to remind all the BRAINS out there:D that ,they had to start some where at one point , they weren't born with the knowledge of computer , so cut some slacks to the people here who actually want to learn something new about their players , be kind and transfer you knowledge to others , it'll make you feel better knowing that you made someone happy by teaching them a new thing :D "PASS IT ON"
Laters, Haters

[ssungiri]

Hi, iversonjack
CHINESE Font resource

<chinese>
HanWangWCL10
DEFAULT
700
2E80 2EFF
2FF0 2FFF
3000 303F
3040 309F
30A0 30FF
3190 319F
31C0 31EF
31F0 31FF
3200 32FF
3300 33FF
3400 4DBF
4E00 9FBF
F900 FAFF
FE30 FE4F
FF00 FFEF
20000 2A6DF
2F800 2FA1F

[Asmo]

OK THIS is WHERE I GET CONFUSED , what resource bin file ??????

The BRAINS has heard you :D, so here is it, the answer to your question!
Just download the firmware package (see this thread) and you'll find in archive 2 files. One of them is resource.bin, which you have to put to the same directory as m6_font_import.exe. Then follow the common instructions.

...
20000 2A6DF
2F800 2FA1F

What!? Hey, the last 2 lines won't work, cause my program operates only UTF-16 encoding, more precisely UCS-2, i.e. 2 bytes per code point. And the most important - M6 supports only UCS-2! Do not use codepoints after 0xFFFE even if program doesn't crash (generally speaking - it should crash, but strange things happen...)

[iversonjack]

I am tempted to try ssungiri's code there. Asmo, is it safe? Can the font name be in chinese, or does it have to be in English? I am very interested.

[rokitski]

My player correctly shows file names in cyrillic, but in the song list it uses wrong characters. Is there any way to fix this?

[Uzime]

Thanks Asmo , I had it to work this am :D, I actually used a "resource.bin" from a custom skin , worked good
wish I knew more about all that stuff , but doing some digging around the forum can be a lot of fun :D
Laters Haters

[Asmo]

My player correctly shows file names in cyrillic, but in the song list it uses wrong characters. Is there any way to fix this?

Possibly these tracks use ANSI codepage for cyrillic, try the following:
first use m6_font_import and then m6_patch_font.

I am tempted to try ssungiri's code there. Asmo, is it safe? Can the font name be in chinese, or does it have to be in English? I am very interested.

Safe, but delete last 2 lines. The font can be chinese but save the text file in UTF-16 (UCS-2) encoding.

[iversonjack]

Asmo, you talked about saving files in UTF-16. I don't have the option to save under UTF-16 in notepad... reason why? (sorry if I am noob). All I see is ANSI, Unicode, Unicode big endian, UTF-8.

PS: I have successfully uploaded a Chinese simplified font onto my M6, but only because the Chinese simplified font has an english title.

[Asmo]

Asmo, you talked about saving files in UTF-16. I don't have the option to save under UTF-16 in notepad... reason why? (sorry if I am noob). All I see is ANSI, Unicode, Unicode big endian, UTF-8.

PS: I have successfully uploaded a Chinese simplified font onto my M6, but only because the Chinese simplified font has an english title.

Select Unicode. That's strange things from Microsoft. They think that UTF-8 is not Unicode... Poor people...