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1. Download onto your computer a font that allows your desired language to be displayed. I suggest DejaVu fonts:
Download - DejaVu. DejaVu fonts display a lot of languages. Check to see if your desired language is supported.
2. Connect your Droid to your computer and mount it.
3. Open the DejaVu fonts zip file, find the file "DejaVuSans.ttf", then copy this file onto your sdcard in the root directory (in other words, directly onto the sdcard but not in any particular folder).
4. Rename the "DejaVuSans.ttf" file on the sdcard to "DroidSansFallback.ttf". Make sure you've renamed the file exactly as I've specified.
5. Unmount your Droid.
6. On your Droid, open up a terminal emulator application -- I used "Android Terminal Emulator" -- and type this exactly (make sure to be case-sensitive and do not type directions I include in parenthesis):
- su (wait for the superuser screen, and press "yes")
- mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
- chmod 4755 /system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf
- dd if=/sdcard/DroidSansFallback.ttf of=/system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf
- reboot
After your Droid restarts, it should be able to support many more foreign scripts (such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Vietnamese). Try opening your Droid browser and find a page with text in a non-Roman script (like Hebrew). This worked like a charm for me. I wanted to read Armenian on my Droid and now I can.
