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iOS Chinese font comparison: PingFang with various weights 以iOS程式顯示並比較六種不同粗細變化的「蘋方」字體

Update: August 3, 2017 (Swift 3.1 + Xcode 8.3.3)

Original Post: November 8, 2015 (Swift 2)

This post shows how to list the PingFang TC(Traditional Chinese) font with 6 different weights in a table for comparison.

蘋果公司於9月正式推出的iOS9及OS X 10.11 El Capitan (酋長巨石)中，新增了「蘋方」中文字型，有正體(TC)、香港(ＨK)及簡體(SC)三個版本，每個版本皆有6種不同的粗細變化。

以下的Swift程式以表格列出不同粗細的「蘋方」字體：

ViewController.swift

Update: August 3, 2017 (Swift 3.1 + Xcode 8.3.3)

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController, UITableViewDataSource, UITableViewDelegate {

    

    //font names

    let fontArray : [String] = [".PingFangTC-Ultralight",".PingFangTC-Thin",".PingFangTC-Light",".PingFangTC-Regular",".PingFangTC-Medium",".PingFangTC-Semibold"]

    

    override func viewDidLoad() {

        super.viewDidLoad()

        

        let tableView = UITableView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 50, width: view.bounds.width, height: view.bounds.height-50))

        tableView.dataSource = self

        tableView.delegate = self

        

        //Do not draw line separators for empty cells.

        tableView.tableFooterView = UIView()

        

        view.addSubview(tableView)

    }

    

    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {

        return 6

    }

    

    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {

        let cell = UITableViewCell(style: UITableViewCellStyle.default, reuseIdentifier: "myIdentifier")

        cell.textLabel?.text = "蘋方字型測試 永 正體"

        cell.textLabel?.font = UIFont(name: fontArray[indexPath.row], size: 28)

        cell.textLabel?.textAlignment = NSTextAlignment.center

        return cell

    }

    

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {

        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()

    }

}

Original Post: November 8, 2015 (Swift 2)

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController, UITableViewDataSource, UITableViewDelegate {

    

    //font names

    let fontArray : [String] = [".PingFangTC-Ultralight",".PingFangTC-Thin",".PingFangTC-Light",".PingFangTC-Regular",".PingFangTC-Medium",".PingFangTC-Semibold"]

    

    override func viewDidLoad() {

        super.viewDidLoad()

        

        let tableView = UITableView(frame: CGRectMake(0, 50, view.bounds.width, view.bounds.height-50))

        tableView.dataSource = self

        tableView.delegate = self

        

        //Do not draw line separators for empty cells.

        tableView.tableFooterView = UIView()

        

        view.addSubview(tableView)

        

    }

    

    func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {

        return 6

    }

    

    func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {

        let cell = UITableViewCell(style: UITableViewCellStyle.Default, reuseIdentifier: "myIdentifier")

        cell.textLabel?.text = "蘋方字型測試 永 正體"

        cell.textLabel?.font = UIFont(name: fontArray[indexPath.row], size: 30)

        

        return cell

    }

    

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {

        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()

    }

}

結果如下：

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Open the browser with a URL including Unicode characters 以瀏覽器開啟中文網址

The following example is written with Xcode 6.4. It converts a string with Unicode characters to the NSURL format.

Edit ViewController.swift as below:

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    override func viewDidLoad() {

        super.viewDidLoad()

        

        let button = UIButton(frame: CGRectMake(100, 100, 100, 20))

        button.setTitle("Press", forState: UIControlState.Normal)

        button.setTitleColor(UIColor.blueColor(), forState: UIControlState.Normal)

        button.setTitleColor(UIColor.cyanColor(), forState: UIControlState.Highlighted)//Set the title color while highlighted

        button.addTarget(self, action: "btnPressed:", forControlEvents: UIControlEvents.TouchUpInside)

        view.addSubview(button)

    }

    

    func btnPressed(sender: UIButton) {

        println("btnPressed")

        

        let string = "https://tw.news.yahoo.com/ios-9-0-1釋出-網友：滑臉書好快喔-083210396.html".stringByAddingPercentEncodingWithAllowedCharacters(NSCharacterSet.URLQueryAllowedCharacterSet())

        

        let url = NSURL(string: string!)

        UIApplication.sharedApplication().openURL(url!)//Open the URL in the browser.

    }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {

        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()

    }

}

After pressing the 'Press' button, the browser is opened with the  URL in Chinese.