I was wondering if there is a built-in font for Japanese kana in the iPhone OS?
I was wanting to display kana characters and figured it would be easier to generate them in a UILabel as text versus creating a .PNG and display them in a UIImageView. I would want this to be available to non-Japanese iPhones/iPods. I'm not 100% aware if there are differences in the localizations of them as I could not find any of this info in the Dev. Center. Thank you for our time!
Yes, there's a font which contains Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. I'm not sure if there's a way to specify the style of the font though.
You can type Japanese straight into an 'NSString' and set the label text, it will show up no problem.
*Edit: * I found this list of fonts on the iPhone, which lists "Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN W3", a Japanese font. You can find it on the Mac too, it's the standard Japanese font. There's also a bold version. There doesn't seem to be a rounded version, just gothic.
http://www.alexcurylo.com/blog/2008/10/05/snippet-available-uifonts/