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HTC Desire and Arabic Language

fokakmeny

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Apr 12, 2010
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hello there
I'm planning to buy HTC desire, I'm currently in Egypt and main langauge here ( for mails and SMSs ) is Arabic
1- does HTC desire support Arabic mails and SMSs? for even just recieving them correctly!
2- and if not? is there anyway, or update to the software that will enable arabic on the device?
3- is there any plans for HTC to add arabic to HTC desire software soon?
thats all, I couldn't find a forum for Desire, so I posted the thread here
if the wrong forum, I'm sorry
thanks in advance, bye
 
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Hey,

I've actually had to test this as I work for an online SMS company and we are implementing Unicode for predominantly Arabic SMS messages.

The Desire does not support the Arabic language natively, further than this I can reasonably say that the Android operating system doesn't either.

Despite this there are applications in the App Store which I believe do add this functionality. I don't think any of these are currently perfect, but due to the demand the developers should be keen to push forward (and I believe be glad of any help translation wise).

I don't think HTC (or Google in the Android OP) have specific plans to implement Arabic in upcoming updates/Android versions, but as I said before there is a fairly big demand for it.

I hope this helps!

p.s. Funny that I'm using Google Chrome but the default Spell checker tells me Google is spelt incorrectly :D
 
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Hi :)

I just checked the website on my Desire, sadly though the font won't show as the text code available is Latin, Unicode, Japanese & Chinese, but no arabic support :-/ the only stuff that shows up in Arabic is the graphic stuff like ads or the "add comment" (indhaf mgala I think it was)

Sorry to bear the news, but I hope maybe one of the app developers around may have a solloution if possible to add Arabic in the text code.

I found these links, might be of help to you.

http://code.google.com/p/arabicandroid/

https://sites.google.com/a/ut.utm.edu/arabic-android/Home

The first one shows lots of promise I think.

"Edit 2"

I tried scanning the barcode in the first website to try and install it to recheck but my browser won't open the page, not sure if its region limited or something, since I'm from Denmark, our marketplace is limited, the 2nd link requires root and I'm pretty new to this hehe so I'm afraid someone with root would have to check it out since the whole root stuff seems far to techie for me to meddle with.
 
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Hi :)

I just checked the website on my Desire, sadly though the font won't show as the text code available is Latin, Unicode, Japanese & Chinese, but no arabic support :-/ the only stuff that shows up in Arabic is the graphic stuff like ads or the "add comment" (indhaf mgala I think it was)

Sorry to bear the news, but I hope maybe one of the app developers around may have a solloution if possible to add Arabic in the text code.

I found these links, might be of help to you.

arabicandroid - Project Hosting on Google Code

https://sites.google.com/a/ut.utm.edu/arabic-android/Home

The first one shows lots of promise I think.

"Edit 2"

I tried scanning the barcode in the first website to try and install it to recheck but my browser won't open the page, not sure if its region limited or something, since I'm from Denmark, our marketplace is limited, the 2nd link requires root and I'm pretty new to this hehe so I'm afraid someone with root would have to check it out since the whole root stuff seems far to techie for me to meddle with.

thanks alot stavut
your effort is greatly appreciated :)
I really hope to that this arabic matter will be fixed, you guys renewed my hope :)

I'll check these site as soon as i receive my Desire
 
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thanks bashar
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but I viewed the post and didn't understand anything :p
I'll recheck it later
thanks man!
 
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hi i buy htc desire hd and i did updated the android version 2.3.5
my software number is 3.13.751.3
well its made in china and the problem is i want 2 have arabic language in my htc because i need it for sms and chat and documents , i am in dubai now so please if anyone can give me a help plz

This is desire forum. Not desire hd
 
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