FontRouter is an open font rasterizer plug-in (also called “font driver”) for Symbian. It is started about 4 years ago, initially for improving the Chinese font support on Symbian. With more than 3 years’ development, FontRouter extended its functionality to language-neutral & UI-independent and give user more controls over font mechanism on Symbian, such as [...]
由于很长时间没有继续维护和开发FontRouter,却时常有网友发信来询问近况和报告问题,让我觉得很对不起大家长期以来的关注和支持。为了不让这个有用的小工具就这样默默死掉,希望后续有人能继续其开发,造福广大Symbian玩家,遂决定将其开源。初步考虑以GPL协议发布源代码。(如果有更适合的开源协议也欢迎建议) 如果有人愿意继续其开发,我将尽我所能的提供支持! UPDATE: Source code of FontRouter is released under Apache License 2.0
Now, FontRouter2 is expectatively compatible with all the Symbian phones except those of Symbian 9 (S60v3 and UIQ3). This is definite the binary compatibility with one single binary! (: Binary compatibility with Symbian 9 could not be achieved because of the break in compiler. As mentioned in SDK document of Symbian 9: New compiler and [...]
I did not expect so, as N9210 is nearly the oldest Symbian phone which based on Symbian 6.0 and I never planned FontRouter for it. But the fact by test on emulator is affirmative… and amazing… :O