Cyrillic's characters in cufon.

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1. 

   XprogeR
   Member

   Hi, can you help me. After i translated theme on my own language, i have found what the cyrillic characters is not displaying at all headers where using cufon. Please tell me how i can fix it?

   Posted 8 months ago #
2. 

   Ruderic
   Support

   Hello,

   This is most likely because cufon does not support those characters. Try navigating to Dashboard -> Echelon -> General Settings and check the "Globally Disable Cufon" option to see if they display.

   If you want to use those letters with cufon you might be able to include them as you create a new cufon font file, http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/, otherwise it would be best to leave cufon disabled.

   You can also try out the Google Font plugin, http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-google-fonts/, instead of cufon.

   Posted 8 months ago #
3. 

   XprogeR
   Member

   Thanks, i really didn't see this option, it helped. But i want to replace the default cufon's font, can you give me some tips about that.

   PS: I use the Awake theme.

   Posted 8 months ago #
4. 

   Ruderic
   Support

   Hello,

   First of all, you would need the font file, which is usually in TTF format. Then, generate your Cufon file, making sure to include your desired characters (There are some fields in the Cufon generator that allow you to include/exclude certain characters). Here you can find the generator: http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/

   Then, upload your font file to the "lib/scripts/fonts/" directory of your theme folder.

   Finally, in the "Manage Skins" section of your theme options panel, you can assign this new font to the elements in your website. Take a look at this guide, it might be helpful: http://mysitemyway.com/docs/index.php/Creating_a_new_Skin#General_Typography

   Posted 8 months ago #
5. 

   XprogeR
   Member

   With your help i did it. And wrote the little how-to add to cufon, yore own font with another language's characters support.
   1. You need find the font which supporting necessary characters.
   2. Go to http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/ and make your own, cufon's file with the font.
   3. After you downloaded the font's file, rename it, the name must not containing white space or the another symbols, only the latin letters.
   4. Copy the file name with out ".js" part, open the file in text editor and replace the font-family on the copyed file's name. Save file and close it.
   5. Put the file into theme's folder "lib/scripts/fonts".
   6. On your site, open the dashboard, and go to settings of theme. Click on Skins tab, check the Manage Skins, and push the button edit opposite using theme name.
   7. Now in the section where defining the font settings select your own font.
   8. Save settings. Done.

   PS: When i wrote this is how-to i was using Awake them v2.3

   Posted 8 months ago #
6. 

   Elliott
   Support

   Hello XprogeR,

   You also have to rename the file as seen here, http://mysitemyway.com/support/topic/additional-cufon-fonts-not-woking, but it sounds like you were able to work through that.

   Thanks for posting your solution.

   Posted 8 months ago #

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