Hi guys,
probably well known by our long-time Android users but it was news for me so seeing there are a lot of new people coming to Android with the Wildfire I decided to post my findings here.
Even if a particular language is not included for your phone there is a way to add/activate it on your android powered smartphone (as long as it uses unicode).
!!WARNING!! This will NOT change the language for all applications (only stock android apps). HTC specific apps for example will stay in the language of your stock ROM.
It also does NOT add text prediction input when using the keyboard. This is apparently included in the keyboard software (IME).
To add/activate a language not included by default in your settings
- Download the application
LocaleSwitch: http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.aokabi.android.localeswitch
MoreLocale: http://www.appbrain.com/app/jp.co.c_lis.ccl.morelocale
- Activate another language in the list
OR
- Create a new locale code using the lists below
First two letters define the language, the second two the country.
Language (ISO 639 codes)
Country (ISO 3166 codes); use the two letter codes of the first column
More explanation here:
http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/Locale.html
I managed to add croatian language on my phone by creating the locale hr_HR for example.
This info might be useful if you would flash your phone in the future with a ROM of a different language than the one you are using now.
Cheers,
Sylvain
probably well known by our long-time Android users but it was news for me so seeing there are a lot of new people coming to Android with the Wildfire I decided to post my findings here.
Even if a particular language is not included for your phone there is a way to add/activate it on your android powered smartphone (as long as it uses unicode).
!!WARNING!! This will NOT change the language for all applications (only stock android apps). HTC specific apps for example will stay in the language of your stock ROM.
It also does NOT add text prediction input when using the keyboard. This is apparently included in the keyboard software (IME).
To add/activate a language not included by default in your settings
- Download the application
LocaleSwitch: http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.aokabi.android.localeswitch
MoreLocale: http://www.appbrain.com/app/jp.co.c_lis.ccl.morelocale
- Activate another language in the list
OR
- Create a new locale code using the lists below
First two letters define the language, the second two the country.
Language (ISO 639 codes)
Technical contents of ISO 639:1988 (E/F)
"Code for the representation of names of languages".
Typed by Keld.Simonsen@dkuug.dk 1990-11-30 <ftp://dkuug.dk/i18n/ISO_639>
Minor corrections, 1992-09-08 by Keld Simonsen
Sundanese corrected, 1992-11-11 by Keld Simonsen
Telugu corrected, 1995-08-24 by Keld Simonsen
Hebrew, Indonesian, Yiddish corrected 1995-10-10 by Michael Everson
Inuktitut, Uighur, Zhuang added 1995-10-10 by Michael Everson
Sinhalese corrected, 1995-10-10 by Michael Everson
Faeroese corrected to Faroese, 1995-11-18 by Keld Simonsen
Sangro corrected to Sangho, 1996-07-28 by Keld Simonsen
Two-letter lower-case symbols are used.
The Registration Authority for ISO 639 is Infoterm, Osterreichisches
Normungsinstitut (ON), Postfach 130, A-1021 Vienna, Austria.
aa Afar
ab Abkhazian
af Afrikaans
am Amharic
ar Arabic
as Assamese
ay Aymara
az Azerbaijani
ba Bashkir
be Byelorussian
bg Bulgarian
bh Bihari
bi Bislama
bn Bengali; Bangla
bo Tibetan
br Breton
ca Catalan
co Corsican
cs Czech
cy Welsh
da Danish
de German
dz Bhutani
el Greek
en English
eo Esperanto
es Spanish
et Estonian
eu Basque
fa Persian
fi Finnish
fj Fiji
fo Faroese
fr French
fy Frisian
ga Irish
gd Scots Gaelic
gl Galician
gn Guarani
gu Gujarati
ha Hausa
he Hebrew (formerly iw)
hi Hindi
hr Croatian
hu Hungarian
hy Armenian
ia Interlingua
id Indonesian (formerly in)
ie Interlingue
ik Inupiak
is Icelandic
it Italian
iu Inuktitut
ja Japanese
jw Javanese
ka Georgian
kk Kazakh
kl Greenlandic
km Cambodian
kn Kannada
ko Korean
ks Kashmiri
ku Kurdish
ky Kirghiz
la Latin
ln Lingala
lo Laothian
lt Lithuanian
lv Latvian, Lettish
mg Malagasy
mi Maori
mk Macedonian
ml Malayalam
mn Mongolian
mo Moldavian
mr Marathi
ms Malay
mt Maltese
my Burmese
na Nauru
ne Nepali
nl Dutch
no Norwegian
oc Occitan
om (Afan) Oromo
or Oriya
pa Punjabi
pl Polish
ps Pashto, Pushto
pt Portuguese
qu Quechua
rm Rhaeto-Romance
rn Kirundi
ro Romanian
ru Russian
rw Kinyarwanda
sa Sanskrit
sd Sindhi
sg Sangho
sh Serbo-Croatian
si Sinhalese
sk Slovak
sl Slovenian
sm Samoan
sn Shona
so Somali
sq Albanian
sr Serbian
ss Siswati
st Sesotho
su Sundanese
sv Swedish
sw Swahili
ta Tamil
te Telugu
tg Tajik
th Thai
ti Tigrinya
tk Turkmen
tl Tagalog
tn Setswana
to Tonga
tr Turkish
ts Tsonga
tt Tatar
tw Twi
ug Uighur
uk Ukrainian
ur Urdu
uz Uzbek
vi Vietnamese
vo Volapuk
wo Wolof
xh Xhosa
yi Yiddish (formerly ji)
yo Yoruba
za Zhuang
zh Chinese
zu Zulu
Country (ISO 3166 codes); use the two letter codes of the first column
Country A 2 A 3 Number
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AALAND ISLANDS AX ALA 248
AFGHANISTAN AF AFG 004
ALBANIA AL ALB 008
ALGERIA DZ DZA 012
AMERICAN SAMOA AS ASM 016
ANDORRA AD AND 020
ANGOLA AO AGO 024
ANGUILLA AI AIA 660
ANTARCTICA AQ ATA 010
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA AG ATG 028
ARGENTINA AR ARG 032
ARMENIA AM ARM 051
ARUBA AW ABW 533
AUSTRALIA AU AUS 036
AUSTRIA AT AUT 040
AZERBAIJAN AZ AZE 031
BAHAMAS BS BHS 044
BAHRAIN BH BHR 048
BANGLADESH BD BGD 050
BARBADOS BB BRB 052
BELARUS BY BLR 112
BELGIUM BE BEL 056
BELIZE BZ BLZ 084
BENIN BJ BEN 204
BERMUDA BM BMU 060
BHUTAN BT BTN 064
BOLIVIA BO BOL 068
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOWINA BA BIH 070
BOTSWANA BW BWA 072
BOUVET ISLAND BV BVT 074
BRAZIL BR BRA 076
BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY IO IOT 086
BRUNEI DARUSSALAM BN BRN 096
BULGARIA BG BGR 100
BURKINA FASO BF BFA 854
BURUNDI BI BDI 108
CAMBODIA KH KHM 116
CAMEROON CM CMR 120
CANADA CA CAN 124
CAPE VERDE CV CPV 132
CAYMAN ISLANDS KY CYM 136
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC CF CAF 140
CHAD TD TCD 148
CHILE CL CHL 152
CHINA CN CHN 156
CHRISTMAS ISLAND CX CXR 162
COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS CC CCK 166
COLOMBIA CO COL 170
COMOROS KM COM 174
CONGO, Democratic Republic of (was Zaire) CD COD 180
CONGO, Republic of CG COG 178
COOK ISLANDS CK COK 184
COSTA RICA CR CRI 188
COTE D'IVOIRE CI CIV 384
CROATIA (local name: Hrvatska) HR HRV 191
CUBA CU CUB 192
CYPRUS CY CYP 196
CZECH REPUBLIC CZ CZE 203
DENMARK DK DNK 208
DJIBOUTI DJ DJI 262
DOMINICA DM DMA 212
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC DO DOM 214
ECUADOR EC ECU 218
EGYPT EG EGY 818
EL SALVADOR SV SLV 222
EQUATORIAL GUINEA GQ GNQ 226
ERITREA ER ERI 232
ESTONIA EE EST 233
ETHIOPIA ET ETH 231
FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS) FK FLK 238
FAROE ISLANDS FO FRO 234
FIJI FJ FJI 242
FINLAND FI FIN 246
FRANCE FR FRA 250
FRENCH GUIANA GF GUF 254
FRENCH POLYNESIA PF PYF 258
FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES TF ATF 260
GABON GA GAB 266
GAMBIA GM GMB 270
GEORGIA GE GEO 268
GERMANY DE DEU 276
GHANA GH GHA 288
GIBRALTAR GI GIB 292
GREECE GR GRC 300
GREENLAND GL GRL 304
GRENADA GD GRD 308
GUADELOUPE GP GLP 312
GUAM GU GUM 316
GUATEMALA GT GTM 320
GUINEA GN GIN 324
GUINEA-BISSAU GW GNB 624
GUYANA GY GUY 328
HAITI HT HTI 332
HEARD AND MC DONALD ISLANDS HM HMD 334
HONDURAS HN HND 340
HONG KONG HK HKG 344
HUNGARY HU HUN 348
ICELAND IS ISL 352
INDIA IN IND 356
INDONESIA ID IDN 360
IRAN (ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF) IR IRN 364
IRAQ IQ IRQ 368
IRELAND IE IRL 372
ISRAEL IL ISR 376
ITALY IT ITA 380
JAMAICA JM JAM 388
JAPAN JP JPN 392
JORDAN JO JOR 400
KAZAKHSTAN KZ KAZ 398
KENYA KE KEN 404
KIRIBATI KI KIR 296
KOREA, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KP PRK 408
KOREA, REPUBLIC OF KR KOR 410
KUWAIT KW KWT 414
KYRGYZSTAN KG KGZ 417
LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC LA LAO 418
LATVIA LV LVA 428
LEBANON LB LBN 422
LESOTHO LS LSO 426
LIBERIA LR LBR 430
LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA LY LBY 434
LIECHTENSTEIN LI LIE 438
LITHUANIA LT LTU 440
LUXEMBOURG LU LUX 442
MACAU MO MAC 446
MACEDONIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MK MKD 807
MADAGASCAR MG MDG 450
MALAWI MW MWI 454
MALAYSIA MY MYS 458
MALDIVES MV MDV 462
MALI ML MLI 466
MALTA MT MLT 470
MARSHALL ISLANDS MH MHL 584
MARTINIQUE MQ MTQ 474
MAURITANIA MR MRT 478
MAURITIUS MU MUS 480
MAYOTTE YT MYT 175
MEXICO MX MEX 484
MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF FM FSM 583
MOLDOVA, REPUBLIC OF MD MDA 498
MONACO MC MCO 492
MONGOLIA MN MNG 496
MONTSERRAT MS MSR 500
MOROCCO MA MAR 504
MOZAMBIQUE MZ MOZ 508
MYANMAR MM MMR 104
NAMIBIA NA NAM 516
NAURU NR NRU 520
NEPAL NP NPL 524
NETHERLANDS NL NLD 528
NETHERLANDS ANTILLES AN ANT 530
NEW CALEDONIA NC NCL 540
NEW ZEALAND NZ NZL 554
NICARAGUA NI NIC 558
NIGER NE NER 562
NIGERIA NG NGA 566
NIUE NU NIU 570
NORFOLK ISLAND NF NFK 574
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS MP MNP 580
NORWAY NO NOR 578
OMAN OM OMN 512
PAKISTAN PK PAK 586
PALAU PW PLW 585
PALESTINIAN TERRITORY, Occupied PS PSE 275
PANAMA PA PAN 591
PAPUA NEW GUINEA PG PNG 598
PARAGUAY PY PRY 600
PERU PE PER 604
PHILIPPINES PH PHL 608
PITCAIRN PN PCN 612
POLAND PL POL 616
PORTUGAL PT PRT 620
PUERTO RICO PR PRI 630
QATAR QA QAT 634
REUNION RE REU 638
ROMANIA RO ROU 642
RUSSIAN FEDERATION RU RUS 643
RWANDA RW RWA 646
SAINT HELENA SH SHN 654
SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS KN KNA 659
SAINT LUCIA LC LCA 662
SAINT PIERRE AND MIQUELON PM SPM 666
SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES VC VCT 670
SAMOA WS WSM 882
SAN MARINO SM SMR 674
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE ST STP 678
SAUDI ARABIA SA SAU 682
SENEGAL SN SEN 686
SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO CS SCG 891
SEYCHELLES SC SYC 690
SIERRA LEONE SL SLE 694
SINGAPORE SG SGP 702
SLOVAKIA SK SVK 703
SLOVENIA SI SVN 705
SOLOMON ISLANDS SB SLB 090
SOMALIA SO SOM 706
SOUTH AFRICA ZA ZAF 710
SOUTH GEORGIA AND THE SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS GS SGS 239
SPAIN ES ESP 724
SRI LANKA LK LKA 144
SUDAN SD SDN 736
SURINAME SR SUR 740
SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN ISLANDS SJ SJM 744
SWAZILAND SZ SWZ 748
SWEDEN SE SWE 752
SWITZERLAND CH CHE 756
SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC SY SYR 760
TAIWAN TW TWN 158
TAJIKISTAN TJ TJK 762
TANZANIA, UNITED REPUBLIC OF TZ TZA 834
THAILAND TH THA 764
TIMOR-LESTE TL TLS 626
TOGO TG TGO 768
TOKELAU TK TKL 772
TONGA TO TON 776
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO TT TTO 780
TUNISIA TN TUN 788
TURKEY TR TUR 792
TURKMENISTAN TM TKM 795
TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS TC TCA 796
TUVALU TV TUV 798
UGANDA UG UGA 800
UKRAINE UA UKR 804
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES AE ARE 784
UNITED KINGDOM GB GBR 826
UNITED STATES US USA 840
UNITED STATES MINOR OUTLYING ISLANDS UM UMI 581
URUGUAY UY URY 858
UZBEKISTAN UZ UZB 860
VANUATU VU VUT 548
VATICAN CITY STATE (HOLY SEE) VA VAT 336
VENEZUELA VE VEN 862
VIET NAM VN VNM 704
VIRGIN ISLANDS (BRITISH) VG VGB 092
VIRGIN ISLANDS (U.S.) VI VIR 850
WALLIS AND FUTUNA ISLANDS WF WLF 876
WESTERN SAHARA EH ESH 732
YEMEN YE YEM 887
ZAMBIA ZM ZMB 894
ZIMBABWE ZW ZWE 716
More explanation here:
http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/Locale.html
I managed to add croatian language on my phone by creating the locale hr_HR for example.
This info might be useful if you would flash your phone in the future with a ROM of a different language than the one you are using now.
Cheers,
Sylvain
