[Q] Persian/Arabic support with honeycomb - Nook Color General

Hi everyone ,
I`ve made a plan to buy a nook color after I saw the honeycomb on it, but persian language support in browser is very very important for me, previous versions of android had only Persian/Arabic characters but not showing correctly in the browser. characters are shown seperately and from left-to-right (opposite to persian language grammers). so I have a request. if you have honeycomb on your nook color , would you open a persian site in it`s browser and send me a screenshot of it (specially texts)?
Persian site like this one:
www.handheldusers.com
Thanks in advance and please accept my apologize if I should not post this topic here.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=871996

No Answer?

I think he's trying to tell you that you shouldn't have posted this here. I tried it, and it looks like it works fine. I can't get a screenshot yet, but I took pictures with my droid. In my best English judgment, it looks like it's rendering just the same as the computer is. I wouldn't buy a nook with the intention of using Honeycomb as the primary operating system yet. It's rather slow in many places. It does work though, and by all means, go for it if you want.
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amir_rafie said:
Hi everyone ,
I`ve made a plan to buy a nook color after I saw the honeycomb on it, but persian language support in browser is very very important for me, previous versions of android had only Persian/Arabic characters but not showing correctly in the browser. characters are shown seperately and from left-to-right (opposite to persian language grammers). so I have a request. if you have honeycomb on your nook color , would you open a persian site in it`s browser and send me a screenshot of it (specially texts)?
Persian site like this one:
www.handheldusers.com
Thanks in advance and please accept my apologize if I should not post this topic here.
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Persian works perfectly on Honeycomb on my nook

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Vietnamese fonts can't be displayed, please help!

I am a new user in this forum. I've just got a G1 phone. The browser can't display vietname characters on those vietnamese forums that I usually go to. Is there any way to change the setting on this? Or is there any application needed to be installed?
Besides, the songs that are posted on these forums can't not be heard. Is that because I need to install a player for this?? How can I listen to music on these sites?
The site I usually go to is: http://www.gachnoionline.org/diendan/index.php?showtopic=5065
Please help! Anyone? Thanks alot.
The G1 as of right now does not support true unicode needed to display the vietnamese language, only some of the special characters are supported due to their coincidence with the french and spanish vocabulary, which IS supported. Hopefully someone with enough knowledge can come up with the solution, either by creating a browser plug in or simply importing a true unicode font set into the system, kind of like how you can simply download font sets into windows machines.
As for listening to music, most sites tend to stream via flash, which is not yet available for the G1. The site that you have linked to streamed music via the Windows Media Player plugin, so in order to listen to it, you need to be able to the view the site's HTML code in order to find the true link to the music. You can then use some sort of download tool to download the song, which is then playable. Hopefully a more elegant solution can be developed.
coolairG1 said:
I am a new user in this forum. I've just got a G1 phone. The browser can't display vietname characters on those vietnamese forums that I usually go to. Is there any way to change the setting on this? Or is there any application needed to be installed?
Besides, the songs that are posted on these forums can't not be heard. Is that because I need to install a player for this?? How can I listen to music on these sites?
The site I usually go to is: http://www.gachnoionline.org/diendan/index.php?showtopic=5065
Please help! Anyone? Thanks alot.
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I got a JV 1.42 with vietnamese font, because im viet lol. This version is same as JV 1.42, but got extra viet font : )
alpha010203 said:
The G1 as of right now does not support true unicode needed to display the vietnamese language, only some of the special characters are supported due to their coincidence with the french and spanish vocabulary, which IS supported. Hopefully someone with enough knowledge can come up with the solution, either by creating a browser plug in or simply importing a true unicode font set into the system, kind of like how you can simply download font sets into windows machines.
As for listening to music, most sites tend to stream via flash, which is not yet available for the G1. The site that you have linked to streamed music via the Windows Media Player plugin, so in order to listen to it, you need to be able to the view the site's HTML code in order to find the true link to the music. You can then use some sort of download tool to download the song, which is then playable. Hopefully a more elegant solution can be developed.
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Thank you alpha10203 for your complete answer. So, I guess, I can do nothing now but wait.
demonfriend1 said:
I got a JV 1.42 with vietnamese font, because im viet lol. This version is same as JV 1.42, but got extra viet font : )
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Hi demonfriend1 , what is JV 1.42 and how to get it????
demonfriend1 said:
I got a JV 1.42 with vietnamese font, because im viet lol. This version is same as JV 1.42, but got extra viet font : )
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I think this update made by my friend, khoaitaychienvn. It's a RC33 version sign JF keys with fixed Tomaho font style from me. You can use Vietnamese on Browser only, can use Vietnamese on IM built-in, Meebo, .... Because when surfing web, the Browser us UTF-8 of the website, and when using one app, it doesn't use UTF-8 as default.
funbacon said:
I think this update made by my friend, khoaitaychienvn. It's a RC33 version sign JF keys with fixed Tomaho font style from me. You can use Vietnamese on Browser only, can use Vietnamese on IM built-in, Meebo, .... Because when surfing web, the Browser us UTF-8 of the website, and when using one app, it doesn't use UTF-8 as default.
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this version wasn't make by your friend; you can Cook almost any font to your G1 update version. The font work fine like English. Vietnamese Font Cook in JV 1.42. You get extra font in your version. : ) Same for others as well.
demonfriend1 said:
this version wasn't make by your friend; you can Cook almost any font to your G1 update version. The font work fine like English. Vietnamese Font Cook in JV 1.42. You get extra font in your version. : ) Same for others as well.
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demonfriend1, could you tell me how to get this update and how to install it into my G1, please ???
coolairG1 said:
demonfriend1, could you tell me how to get this update and how to install it into my G1, please ???
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http://benkia.com/forum/index.php?topic=564.msg572#msg572 here is the link with images and files.
demonfriend1 said:
http://benkia.com/forum/index.php?topic=564.msg572#msg572 here is the link with images and files.
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Thanks demonfriend1. I still don't know how to install this file into my G1 yet, but I will search that forum to find out. Thanks alot.

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.

[Discontinued] Native Hebrew Keyboard for WP7 -[U]- 15 JAN 2011 -[V]- 1.2

This project is discontinued.
Please use denominator77 native keyboard which now implements everything this keyboard can offer and more..
works but dosen't show hebrew in the people search and also it's still LTR and not RTL , nice work anyways
Please let us know if working, if so it´s worth for writing an article!
Works on my O2 UK HTC HD7 but sadly missing key features
great job!
אחלה עבודה! כל הכבוד למפתחים הישראלים!
טוב לראות כאן ישראלים.
תגיד, יש משהו כזה למכשירי סמסונג?
updated to v1.1
hebrew keyboard is now available for search, contacts and all the rest
blutz, your code looks interesting One of the Interfaces is from a Samsung DLL, correct? From where did you get DMXMLCOM? Is it default on HTC handsets? Elegant use of provisiong files, congrats!
-tobias
kuerbis2 said:
blutz, your code looks interesting One of the Interfaces is from a Samsung DLL, correct? From where did you get DMXMLCOM? Is it default on HTC handsets? Elegant use of provisiong files, congrats!
-tobias
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the samsung interface is there,but i'm not using it, maybe in the future if I'll create this for omnia7.
the DMXMLCOM is from the ConnectionSetup app, glad i find that method, because htc's comregrw have a bug and not writing string values correctly
Great job!
Thank you for the release!
do you know how can i change the writing so i wont need to write backwords in hebrew?
lifewriter said:
Thank you for the release!
do you know how can i change the writing so i wont need to write backwords in hebrew?
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you don't need to write backwards, it just displayed backwards, but it sends ok
(try sms.. )
as written in the first post, its only a keyboard layout and doesn't pretend to fix the rtl problems on the phone.
Hey guys,
I'm glad to announce that the Ported HD2 WP7 version fully supports Hebrew*!
SMS, emails and web browser displays hebrew fonts correctly and auto switches sides when RTL language is detected.
Now its left to see if this keyboard will work on it... also didnt test the contact names yet so cant be sure Hebrew is displayed correctly on these.
Overall I'm very happy!
Ok guys, I can confirm that Contacts work with Hebrew too. No RTL problems.
They names are aligned left however, not a big issue but I suspect it has to do with the Interface.
there are font missing in one note... so that app is out of the question....
Just a quick update, the office suite has hebrew fonts but the text is mirrored
I Have the HD2 aswell but my text is mirrored in SMS, Facebook, and probably more places, the contacts are fine thou and the facebook integration is displayed correctly.
The problem is only in the SMS and Facebook apps but probably appear in other places aswell.
BTW, I Can write hebrew, but it's always mirrored, no matter where I try.
samsung support would be awesome
KingpinEX said:
samsung support would be awesome
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i can send some stuff to test on samsung, pm me your email
Aternus said:
Just a quick update, the office suite has hebrew fonts but the text is mirrored
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then why do i see question marks?
lathera said:
then why do i see question marks?
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Do you have HTC HD2 and LEO70 ROM ?
updated v1.2,
added hebrew font for Office (font only, typing will still be mirrored)

[Q] International (danish) characters on keyboard

Last night I rooted my Nook Color (thanks for all the great threads and tips in here)
The Nook is really cool!
Anyway, when writing mails etc. it would be really nice to have the danish letters available on the keyboard.
Is the danish/international keyboards hidden somewhere in there or...?!
(it's almost like the early versions of MS-DOS
I think that users i other countries has had the same experience.
What is the solution to this problem?
Is there a solution?

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