@Mark Murphy NexusS is pure vanilla AOSP software. So, it should reflect whatever you find in a emulator (SDK image). So, it was not a Samsung decision. There are some discussions on the contrib email list of the RTL support in general ...
-Dan On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:04 AM, omar <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Each day I read a new thread in Arabic forums about someone frustrated > > that Android doesnt support Arabic, and what made things worse is that > > in this page: http://d.android.com/sdk/android-2.3.html , Arabic is > > mentioned as its supported in Gingerbread, and I was lucky enough to > > not rush and buy the Nexus S to discover it actually doesnt support > > Arabic. > > That was a decision by Samsung, presumably. > > > So the question is: Will future Android releases receive native Arabic > > support? > > Android is an operating system. Android supports Arabic today (though > my understanding is that RTL support is better in Android 3.x). > > Whether any given device manufacturer elects to include Arabic in > their firmware is up to the device manufacturer. > > Third-party firmwares (e.g., CyanogenMod) may include support for more > languages than a given device supports from the manufacturer -- you'd > need to see what their support is for Arabic. > > > Will Ice Cream Sandwich have Arabic support? > > Considering that Gingerbread has Arabic support, and that Google has > not dropped support for any language AFAIK, one would presume that ICS > will have Arabic support. > > Whether any given ICS device has Arabic support is up to the device > manufacturer. > > If you feel that device manufacturers are not supporting Arabic > enough, please take up your issues with the device manufacturers in > question. > > And, of course, absolutely none of this has anything whatsoever to do > with this list. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android 3.0 Programming Books: http://commonsware.com/books > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
