On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Mahesh T. Pai <paivakil_at_gmail.com> wrote:
...
>
> To be fair, when I flash one of the EU firmwares on my Android device,
> it boots up into Russian. I tried the Asian firmwares, only once - and
> it booted up into Chinese/ Korean / Japanese / one of those East Asian
> languages!!! ;-D
>
As Andrew Cunningham noted, the internationalization model --or really
what I would call
LACK of an intelligent I18N model-- on a lot of so-called "smart"
phones just goes to show
how immature these industry segments and markets still remain.
For a while I used a Chinese-made "smart" phone that was capable of
displaying more
languages than the phone I received from my American cell phone
carrier --and thus I conclude it
was designed for sale in many export markets-- BUT it had horribly
annoying shortcomings. For example, one could only type an SMS
message in Chinese if
it was set to a Chinese locale. But even then the Chinese input
methods were limited and were inseparably tied to specific Chinese
locales (i.e., pinyin was available for the Mainland locale, but
pinyin was *not* available for a Traditional Chinese locale). Similar
problems for Greek, Arabic, and
other locale choices.
This model is completely wrong and ignores the realities of most major
urban centers in the world today where numerous immigrant communities
not only exist but are also in constant contact with
friends/families/merchants/suppliers/other service providers from all
over the world.
I should be able to set my locale and display language to anything I
want; and still be able to use and switch-on-the-fly to any input
method for any language I want independent of the current locale and
display language.
- Ed
> --
> Mahesh T. Pai ||
> End Users are just friends who haven't submitted a patch yet.
>
>
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