I'm curious. Did your Hebrew support modifications include full BiDi support? Did you write the bidi code yourself, or did you use some known library?
Moadim lesimcha! Dov 2010/9/3 Shachar Shemesh <shac...@shemesh.biz> > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I have heard that the Hebrew on Android devices is lacking. Orange > does not have a Galaxy to "test drive" at the moment, so could any > Android users let me know of any (all) problems with Android devices? > Hebrew- and non-Hebrew related. Thanks. > > > > I'll try to summarize the information, though things are not simple by a > long stretch. > > Vanilla Android 2.2 comes, built in, with Hebrew and Arabic fonts. These, > however, arrive as separate files, so expect device manufacturers to pull > them off. Aside from that, 2.2 is identical to all previous releases, which > is another way of saying that Hebrew is somewhat supported, but sucks. > > Main bugs: > > - Appointment text in day view in Calendar is displayed the wrong way > - Numbers in Hebrew context are displayed from right to left (makes it > extremely difficult to receive SMS instructions for, say, an address to get > to). > - Scrolled lists with mixed English/Hebrew items have items > disappearing when scrolled. > > Of these, I have not confirmed whether the first one is still in 2.2. The > other two definitely are. > > Phones, and possibly other devices, sold in Israel get special Hebrew > adaptations done to them. The two I've checked are the Samsung Galaxy and > the HTC Magic. For the later, I was the one doing the i18n adaptations. Both > did not suffer the full scale of the first two problems. Both did suffer the > third one, to various degrees. Also, both had varying degrees of > completeness to the work done. > > Also, many people do not run vanilla or device provided Android at all. > Many run the Cyanogenmod[1] distribution (recently on slashdot[2]). I know > for a fact that it incorporates a solution to at least some of the problems > spelled above (the Calendar one at least used to incorporate a patch[3] sent > in by me, that was never merged into Android proper), and thus might provide > far better Hebrew support than vanilla Android. > > Shachar > > 1 - http://www.cyanogenmod.com/ > 2 - > http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/09/01/0343231/Android-Fork-Brings-Froyo-To-12-Smartphones > 3 - https://review.source.android.com/#change,12661 > > -- > Shachar Shemesh > Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.http://www.lingnu.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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