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YafaKlan
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Default Foreign languages

Will foreign languages finally be standard on these android phones?

I've been rooting to add libs all the time especially for semitic languages like hebrew and arabic. Recently its been near impossible to do it on the evo after the 3.70 upgrade.

If google and htc want to really get global, or more global than apple, they seriously need to consider the fact that their market can extend further than the english language barrier that they are restricting themselves to.

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As usual no opinions or posts on my rants of wanting arabic. Gosh. I'm at the bottom of the list.

One post., me. I feel somewhat happier.

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As usual no opinions or posts on my rants of wanting arabic. Gosh. I'm at the bottom of the list.

One post., me. I feel somewhat happier.

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Likely no one posted because no one knows the answer. Do you prefer a long string of off topic posts to no answer at all?

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yeah i know. cuz if someone had a little bit of info, there's no doubt that they would share it here. i love this website, the devs and the whole community. whatever knowledge they have, they are willing to spill it on the screen

on a side note. i believe that the lack of foreign fonts is more of a sense thing as opposed to a google thing.

so HTC step your game.
 
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So just in case HTC monitors this, which I believe they do. I just want to let you know that this lack of foreign language support (spcifically semitic languages) is getting ridiculous. My main reason for buying HTC is for the ease of rooting (from the hero to the evo 4g to now the evo 3d.

adding arabic libs, when possible, is awesome sauce. I can follow the arab spring revolutions through my facebook and twitter apps. and the emails that are sent back and forth from back home, provided that the phone is "arabized," keep me updated on all of the current events going on.

now, there are 29 days for htc to unlock it and/or provide support for foreign languages or else i would have to consider them part of the regime. and as you all know, the people want the downfall of the regime. (bad joke, but if you've been following the mid east revolutions, then you'd understand)

even in my old evo 4g i was running 3.30 firmware (vaelpak 2.3) and couldn't upgrade to 3.70 firmware because of the lack of support in the libraries.jar portion of the nwe firmware. and since htc wont release source code.... i had to stay behind everyone else.

plus i like to sh-t on my i-douchebag friends and family of mine. and when they see my letters aren't "connected" and are NOT going from right to left, well then its +1 for iphone and -1 for HTC/google/me

so in conclusion, like i've stated in an earlier post. STOP RESTRICTING YOURSELF WITH THE LANGUAGE BARRIER.

I seriously dont get it. Just add foreign language support (especially for semitic languages). Whoever uses it... uses it. whoever doesn't... it doesn't hurt them. WTF?!?!?!

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Arabic please..
 
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how did you add the languages into the rom? im looking to get polish onto a stock rom


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