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why is my mini opera displaying websites in different language?

my mini opera is displaying all the pages in different language. how can i fix this? thanks in advance

Mine shows up German sometimes. No other language besides English shows up though. I havn't found any language preference settings.

hslayer said:
my mini opera is displaying all the pages in different language. how can i fix this? thanks in advance
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I'm guessing Opera have setup a proxy to re-encode images to speed up performance. So I'd assume their server is in Germany or something and sites that can tell where you are by your IP think you're there...

afaik opera software is in oslo norway...
all the opera mini traffic runs through a server which transcodes the info and sends it to your phone...so wherever the server is (i'm guessing norway too?) ...that's where websites think you're coming from...

lol this is annoying for sites that think they're being smart and default to another language.. myspace and a few others that I've seen.. seems odd opera wouldn't have some kind of a workaround for this.

Zenoran said:
lol this is annoying for sites that think they're being smart and default to another language.. myspace and a few others that I've seen.. seems odd opera wouldn't have some kind of a workaround for this.
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if you change the automatic shortcut for myspace to just myspace.com it fixes this issue... for whatever reason the myspace they have bookmarked for you is to the german one.

want to view chinese websites and musics

i have an english touch diamond nam. i don't really want to change the whole operating system to chinese but i just want to be able to view websites that are written in traditional chinese and songs with traditional chinese names. is there any way that i can do that?

bump.... anybody???

Maybe it's sufficient to copy a Chinese font from your desktop windows to your Diamond. If this doesn't help, you'll have to install a IME cab, which will also enable you to input Chinese characters. But try the font first, it might work.

search the internet for CE_Star_R3. download then install. After reset, you can read Simplified or Traditional Chinese

Opera Mobile with Chinese

I currently have CE Star 2.8 installed on my device. It works really well accept in Opera Mobile. When the web page first loads, the Chinese characters will be displayed. However, when the whole web page has loaded, the Chinese characters will disappear and everything turns into square blocks
I've searched around on this forum and Google and there seems to be no easy solution. Is anyone having the same problems?

ROM with full Hebrew support

I've installed PDAVIET's WM6.5 ROM 1.59.841.59, what's surprising about it, is that it has Hebrew support out of the box. I can view Hebrew websites in Opera without a mirror effect, and for the first time, in Internet Explorer without it crashing on spot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=555137

Question
Can you determine if this is inherent to this WM build (23041.5.3.0 /23047.5.3.0) or whether it's an add-on?
Did you flash using ROM V59?
Thanks.

Apparently this is inherent to the build 23047 rather than just an add on, seen this build on a guy's D1 and it displayed Hebrew equally well.
I flashed V56.

confirm
Thanks cytokine,
Right, seen it functioning on a D1 and on TP this morning (both running build 23047).
I guess we'll see this info spreading like wildfire now, though apparently no formal mention made available through MS SP program or MSDN.
Side note; I'm amazed that Balmer kept his promise to include Heb in future WM OS, even more surprised that it happened before WM7.

cytokine said:
Apparently this is inherent to the build 23047 rather than just an add on, seen this build on a guy's D1 and it displayed Hebrew equally well.
I flashed V56.
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i've tried V62. it displays hebrew well in internet explorer on some sites but not in all sites. ynet is working zap is not (site in gibberish).
in opera zap is working in hebrew very well.
SMSs are appearing in hebrew but backwards.
if you install the free hebrew it causes the internet to go backwards and the smss to be fine.
the same is for the contacts, notes and other applications. the built in heb is displaying backwards the free heb is OK.
so you have to decide...
for me the decision is to install free heb and the version of opera that support it.

Opera's display of hebrew is perfect. All sites working flawlessly and at an amazing speed; much faster than I've seen with any Hebrew add-on in previous version.
And though Internet Explorer will not display Hebrew correctly at a few sites, like "Zap", it's at least not brought to a complete halt. With every Hebrew add-on I've tried, the first sign of Hebrew on any webpage, including Google, would make IE crash completely.
tamiroff said:
so you have to decide...
for me the decision is to install free heb and the version of opera that support it.
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I've tried using that "special version" and it just wasn't appealing with its hospital-white interface, weird scrolling and zoom, buggy rendering and slow speed.

cytokine said:
Opera's display of hebrew is perfect. All sites working flawlessly and at an amazing speed; much faster than I've seen with any Hebrew add-on in previous version.
And though Internet Explorer will not display Hebrew correctly at a few sites, like "Zap", it's at least not brought to a complete halt. With every Hebrew add-on I've tried, the first sign of Hebrew on any webpage, including Google, would make IE crash completely.
I've tried using that "special version" and it just wasn't appealing with its hospital-white interface, weird scrolling and zoom, buggy rendering and slow speed.
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if you need hebrew that doesnt crash the explorer you can find it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4221361&postcount=424
you'll also want the hebrew local (for non unicode hebrew):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3878710&postcount=349
go for vivi_Regional.cab.

Thanks tamiroff, I'll take a look.

Question
I read tons of threads and I can't find an answer to the ultimate Question.
Is there a wm 6.5 ROM that can be used on a device with a hardware keyboard (like the se x1) and can be used like a regular device with relative ease?
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SONY ERICSSON X1 still with the original ROM

cytokine said:
Apparently this is inherent to the build 23047 rather than just an add on, seen this build on a guy's D1 and it displayed Hebrew equally well.
I flashed V56.
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VERY interesting,....A few questions please:
1. Would this mean that anything above build 23047 will also have Hebrew support?
2. By Hebrew support do you mean that the Menus are still in English while it can read/see Hebrew ( SMS, em, IE..etc)? , what about the Keyboard, if you install FingerKeyb-2.1 can you enter hebrew letters (RTL)?

Guys hold your horses.
The ttf files that come with WM by default only have limited sets of glyphs, including latin (english, french, german etc), cyrillic (russian) and possibly some more, but no vietnamese, chinese, japanese, hebrew, arabic etc. This can be easily remedied by overwriting the ttf files that come with windows mobile with the ttf files of the same name from a PC windows installation. this would give you all the glyphs of almost all languages of the world including hebrew.
That's nothing new and we always knew it and could always do it, however it doesn't solve the Right-to-Left issues for us.
PhamQuang makes ROMS for Vietnamese users and probably added the ttf files for their sake. Their language is written left-to-right so they only need the glyphs.
The new Pocket Explorer knows how to deal with RTL and so do recent versions of Opera. Unfortunately the rest of the OS does not and requires installation of third party software, and we still have the problem that new PIE doesn't like it when a third party app tries to mess with its text.
Bottom line: Move along... nothing to see here...
Cheers

Install Asian Language Support

Just got the Captivate, switching from Iphone 3Gs. Only issue I have with it is that the media player doesn't show Chinese, Korean, Japanese characters. Anyone knows a way to fix that?

write to samsung, and/or use a diff media player that supports those characters. I know, half assed solution. Its just something to go on unitill someone with more knowhow helps ya out.

i've played around with the original galaxy s i9000 and i know that supports asian languages (korean, japanese, chinese), so it seems that the ability has been removed from the phone (along with some other functions).
in the meantime, you can try installing this (code.google.com/p/android-traditional-chinese-ime) and see if it'll allow you to read the asian fonts. at the very least, you'll be able to type in chinese (google for additional font inputs).
we'll have to wait until 2.2 custom rom comes out before asian language support gets added back in

the vibrant has korean language. pisses me off since i'm korean

Take a look at Simeji4. It should be on the Android market. Or you can go to "www dot adamrocker dot com". As for fonts, I'm not sure if the fonts installed in the captivate supports japanese.

i think in general for android 2.1, the fonts should be installed just like they are for iOS but they were probably removed from the rom for the US release. its nothing a custom rom can't fix though

My support chinese characters out of the box, be sure your mp3 tags are unicode..

So can anyone confirm whether the captivate can handle "asian" fonts? Chinese, Japanese, Korean in Web pages, email client, etc?
I'm considering switching from blackberry but it's a deal breaker for me if it doesn't support the asian characters.
Please tell me if this is possible.

lacheias said:
So can anyone confirm whether the captivate can handle "asian" fonts? Chinese, Japanese, Korean in Web pages, email client, etc?
I'm considering switching from blackberry but it's a deal breaker for me if it doesn't support the asian characters.
Please tell me if this is possible.
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Of course, it can handle asian fonts. Its just a matter of installing the right fonts on it in the first place. The international Galaxy S (reference design) is sold all over Asia.

You may want to check the actual media you are playing. Sometimes it's the mp3 tags that are jacked (as mentioned above). I have a lot of KPOP and JPOP on my Captivate and the characters (Korean and Japanese) show up fine in the media player.
I also have emails and notes that show up just fine in Chinese and Japanese characters without any extra fonts installed on the phone.
And for those asking about the browser (just tested this):
Japanese - YES
Korean - YES
Chinese - YES
But keep in mind, this is DISPLAY only. I don't believe there are any input methods (IME) by default for Asian languages, so you'll have to find those if you need to actually compose messages or enter things in those languages. The only workaround I have heard of us to use a translation site like Google Translate from English to the other language, and then cut and paste into another field (since Asian language cut and paste is supported).

When you say Chinese, do you mean Simplified Chinese, or Traditional Chinese? Mine shows up fine for Traditional Chinese/Japanese/Korean. However Simplified Chinese does not showed up alright, I don't know whether it is unicode or not though.

tabrisnow said:
When you say Chinese, do you mean Simplified Chinese, or Traditional Chinese? Mine shows up fine for Traditional Chinese/Japanese/Korean. However Simplified Chinese does not showed up alright, I don't know whether it is unicode or not though.
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simplified chinese showed up fine, so check the tags of your mp3.

pinoymutt said:
You may want to check the actual media you are playing. Sometimes it's the mp3 tags that are jacked (as mentioned above). I have a lot of KPOP and JPOP on my Captivate and the characters (Korean and Japanese) show up fine in the media player.
I also have emails and notes that show up just fine in Chinese and Japanese characters without any extra fonts installed on the phone.
And for those asking about the browser (just tested this):
Japanese - YES
Korean - YES
Chinese - YES
But keep in mind, this is DISPLAY only. I don't believe there are any input methods (IME) by default for Asian languages, so you'll have to find those if you need to actually compose messages or enter things in those languages. The only workaround I have heard of us to use a translation site like Google Translate from English to the other language, and then cut and paste into another field (since Asian language cut and paste is supported).
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There are 3rd party input method you can install, at least for Chinese.

I believe there are several good 3rd party Chinese and Japanese IME packages. Not sure about Korean (since most Samsung/LG phones sold in Korea probably already have it in their local ROM).

For Korean input, I installed Korean keyboard from the android market and it's been working without any flaw for me.

pinoymutt said:
I also have emails and notes that show up just fine in Chinese and Japanese characters without any extra fonts installed on the phone.
And for those asking about the browser (just tested this):
Japanese - YES
Korean - YES
Chinese - YES
But keep in mind, this is DISPLAY only. I don't believe there are any input methods (IME) by default for Asian languages, so you'll have to find those if you need to actually compose messages or enter things in those languages.
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Thanks pinymutt! That helps alot! If the display of asian characters is functional, installing the IME is not a big deal although it may take a bit of getting used to.
Thanks again!

Hebrew
Not sure about Asian languages but I installed Hebrew fonts and it works system-wide (music player, browser, third party apps). It does require rooting the phone and a little command line work with adb to replace the fonts. Google install Hebrew on android and you should find the commands (am sure you can find the font files and respective commands for Asian languages as well).

For input, I downloaded the korean keyboard from the market and it works perfectly on browser and text.
Thought the default rom would have korean UI but guess not

I just made it by installing a i9000 Asian ROM on the Captivate and not lose any major functions. The stock i9000 ROM has Korean, Chinese (trad/simp), English on there.
If interested, PM me and I will write up a nice guide to do so.
This involve:
- Installing stock i9000 ROM
- Installing Reoriented Captivate kernel w/ Voodoo Ext4 & HSUPA modem
- Get Root, SU, ROM Manger, Busybox
Optional:
- Update Hosts file to skip ads
- Install Circle Battery meter w/ %
To do:
- Replaces Samsung Glass lock screen with stock lock screen (help please??)

Just like on a windows system, you may need to find a way to set your locale to the Asian language of your choice. The system then assumes that if an MP3 tag or text file is not encoded in unicode, it will use the language set in the default locale to show the text.
Of course, converting the mp3 tag to unicode will help as well. ConvertZ will convert MP3 1.3 tags to unicode but it's unable to do it for MP3 1.1 tags.