[Patch] Add Arabic Support to any ROM [0.97][Updated 9-5-2012]

IT's NoT My WORK - I've already added the source at the end

What is this patch doing?
framework.jar: takes care of shaping texts in android on all texts except Gmail and the browser
libwebcore.so: takes care of shaping texts in the default Browser and Gmail app.

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The coder [madmack]:
"This should work with all Android phones supporting Android Froyo or Gingerbread with the exception of MIUI ROMs as they are closed source and I can’t work with that."

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Requirements:

1. Rooted Device
2. Android 2.1 at least
3. Your ROM needs to be deodexed.[!]
4. Java "32-bit" installed

[!] To find out if your installed ROM is deodexed, navigate to /system/framework on your phone. If you see a file called framework.odex then this patch will NOT work for you.

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Steps to apply the patch:

1. Download the patch below and extract it to a folder on your computer.
2. Pull these files to the "input" folder
   /system/framework/framework.jar
   /system/lib/libwebcore.so
   /system/lib/libandroid_runtime.so (If you’re not using a CyanogenMod ROM)
3. Run "commands.exe". (Do not close the black cmd screens that will pop up. Once the patch is done)
4. You should get a patched framework.jar, libwebcore.so and libandroid_runtime.so in the subfolder "output"
5. There is a recovery flashable file in folder output. Place that on your sdcard, reboot into recovery and flash it.[!!] [**]

[!!] It's better to replace the generated .zip "SYSTEM" Folder with The "SYSTEM" folder of any flashable .Zip which worked on your RECOVERY before

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[**] If the flashing through recovery didn’t work for some reason,
You’ll need to do the following manually:

1. Put file output/framework.jar in /system/framework/
2. Put file output/libandroid_runtime.so in /system/lib/ (if this file exists, it shouldn’t if you’re arabizing CM6).
3. Put file output/libicuuc-arabic.so in /system/lib/
   (This is extremely important, failing to place this file will result in a boot loop of your deivce)
4. If file exists: Place file output/libwebcore.so in /system/lib/
5. If file exists: Place file output/lib__bcore.so in /system/lib/

Sometimes permissions and xml data doesn’t get updated correctly resulting in corrupted data entries. If you receive a bunch of Force Closes after a reboot, you’ll need to Factory Reset.

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0.906 - http://www.mediafire.com/?4hisiqyjq7n3n1f

0.905 - http://www.multiupload.com/624XH5H7YO

0.902 - http://www.multiupload.com/70TG5L3XIQ

0.901 - http://www.multiupload.com/KZH2N0ASEZ

0.813 - http://www.multiupload.com/2DDS2B35HI

0.812 - http://www.multiupload.com/CULDPEQACA

0.811 - http://www.multiupload.com/Y1EOQYOJ6B

0.804 - http://www.multiupload.com/TUQLR9TQ1M

0.803 - http://www.multiupload.com/JRF6SPOIFS

0.802 - http://www.multiupload.com/OCH233RPK8

0.801 - http://www.multiupload.com/31A9AOAG3A

0.800 - http://www.multiupload.com/ROGWC6G0Q2

0.789 - http://www.multiupload.com/868WFGNER6

0.788 - http://www.multiupload.com/4KXZF81IVB

0.787 - http://www.multiupload.com/P8BYJQEZQ0

0.786 - http://www.multiupload.com/C4J0VJPLX2

0.785 - http://www.multiupload.com/V98TYUHUO1

0.784 - http://www.multiupload.com/BAU681Q6AZ

0.781 - http://www.multiupload.com/RONE05PCE7

0.76 - http://www.multiupload.com/WUUDZK9ITQ

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0.907
Updated the webkit patcher to 3.91B (support for more devices).

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0.906
Updated the webkit patcher to 3.1B (support for more devices).
Reduced size of libicuuc-arabic.so to the bare minimum. This should also help make it have broader device compatibility. (Thank you brightidea)

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0.904 & 0.905
Updated the webkit patcher to 2.6B (support for more devices).
Fixed errors caused by 0.904 in 0.905. To all who have downloaded 0.904, please download 0.905.

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0.902
Updated the webkit patcher to 2.3B (support for more devices. e.g. Galaxy I5800).

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0.901
Updated the webkit patcher to 2.2B.
Reversed the default font to the old one due to its wider compatibility.
Fixed patching JVT rom for the I9000.
Using a cleaned up reworked script and a new libandroid_runtime.so patcher by brightidea.

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0.813
Updated the webkit patcher to 1.5B.
Updated the default font.
Fixed the “dancing letters” problem in WhatsApp.
Compiled libicuuc-arabic.so with armv5te which should support more devices[/B]

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0.812
Updated baksmali and smali to version 1.2.8.
Updated the webkit patcher to 0.7B (more devices are supported now)

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0.811
Updated baksmali and smali to version 1.2.7.
Added the arabic shaping libwebcore patcher by brightidea (v 0.3 Beta)
Renamed folders to facilitate the process for you guys: you only have to pull files and dump them in the input folder. All generated files will be placed in the output folder.

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0.804
Fixed numbers getting reversed in some cases.

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0.803
Updated Baksmali and Smali to the latest version.
The clockworkmod recovery file is modified (hopefully will work on more roms now)

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0.802
Updated the arabization files to include the latest CM7 fixes (Alignment, text width and many more).
Unified Gingerbread and Froyo patches by moving TextUtils.java’s methods into a new class.
Fixed garbled text appearing in Gmail’s titles in some ROMs

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0.801
Using latest CyanogenMod 7 patch for Arabic. Reference
HTC Gingerbread Sense ROMs will now go through a separate patching process for Layout.smali. This patch has been borrowed from the bright minds that created HebFix_0.91

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0.800
Space after LAMALEF is fixed.
This is a port of the latest arabic patch for CM7. It should work globally on all devices > 2.1. This is also why support for arabizing CM7 is dropped in this patch.
Scrolling and viewing arabic content should be much faster because the new patch relies on c++ to do this instead of Java
Now patch produces a Clockworkmod recovery file for ease of use
Added an arabic font that facilitates reading Arabic text

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0.789
Fixed a Force Close in CM7 due to missing Styles.smali
No longer using ICU4J to shape text. This could also possibly fix shaping for Persian text. Instead, we use Aziz Huss’s ArabicShaper class with some modifications of my own.

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0.788
Fixed a minor Force Close issue in gTalk with Gingerbread Sense UI.

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0.787
Added patch files for Gingerbread Sense UI.
Removed clockworkmod recovery generated file due to incompatibility with all systems

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0.786
Added patch files for CyanogenMod 6.
Added patch files for Gingerbread.
Recovery flashable update files are generated alongside the framework.

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0.785
Added patch files for CyanogenMod 7.
Added libwebcore.so (used to shape text in Browser and Gmail) to subfolder libwebcore. You’ll need to place them in /system/lib on your device.

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0.784
Space after LAMALEF is back. The previous patch caused problems in some apps.
Fixed the RTL alignment in google talk.
Arabic shaping works correctly in Twitter.

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0.781
Space after LAMALEF is gone. Strings are resized to accommodate this change.
Change to Y6b’s source code to reflect on these new changes.
ArabicShaper function only shapes requested width instead of the whole string. This should speed things up considerably.
Some corrections to y6b’s source code
Added subfolder “Aljazeera fonts” for those who want to replace their phone’s fonts.
Clicking on commands.exe will not produce all these prompts anymore. Minimized them to save your precious time.

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ahmadshawki said:

I want to confirm that this method worked on two ROMs for my Samsung Galaxy S2 Epic 4G Touch (for Sprint).
Thanks a lot...

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The coder [madmack]:
"This should work with all Android phones supporting Android Froyo or Gingerbread with the exception of MIUI ROMs as they are closed source and I can’t work with that."

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