Custom font does not render for the first word of a card

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Hoping someone can help me understand my issue: custom font does not render for the first word of a card · Issue #19176 · ankidroid/Anki-Android · GitHub. I have a workaround, so I don’t need help getting my card to display correctly, but I don’t understand why it’s a template issue. Basic summary: I have a custom font that works fine on desktop, but does not work on AnkiDroid for one of my cards. I discovered that wrapping the first parameter in a span or even adding   fixes it, which leads me to believe th at the way AnkiDroid renders the HTML for the card is wrong.

Please paste ‘Debug Info’ (Settings > About > ‘Copy debug info’) below:

AnkiDroid Version = 2.22.3 (4f2ec681da36b8307a865f05192498b8425adf0f)  
Backend Version = 0.1.60-anki25.07.5 (25.07.5 7172b2d26684c7ef9d10e249bd43dc5bf73ae00c)  
Android Version = 16 (SDK 36)  
ProductFlavor = play  
Device Info = Google | google | tokay | tokay | Pixel 9 | tokay  
Webview User Agent = Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 16; Pixel 9 Build/BP3A.250905.014; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/140.0.7339.51 Mobile Safari/537.36  
ACRA UUID = 1686eaaa-5dc2-4bc3-9dbe-6906fb97d66e  
FSRS = 4.1.1 (Enabled: true)  
Crash Reports Enabled = true
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That should be “even adding  ”

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I’m able to reproduce this with your note type and font.

  • When the front template is <span>{{Tengwar}}</span> – the character displays on all platforms.
  • When the front template is {{Tengwar}} – the character fails to display on AnkiDroid, but displays fine on desktop and AnkiMobile.

I think you’re right that this is something AnkiDroid specific, and I’m asking the developers to take another look.

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Does it work on the new study screen? (About > tap logo 6 times > enable developer options> enable new study screen in the developer options)

Or does it show correctly on the card preview (either the one from the browser or the one from the note editor)?

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On 2.22.3, it’s an interesting mix –

Does not display:

  • Regular study screen
  • Card browser table

Displays:

  • New study screen
  • Preview from card browser
  • Preview from note editor
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The new study screen will be out in the next release, so consider it fixed.

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