Hebrew on Android (and other issues)

[Dov Grobgeld]

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 <shachar at 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
>
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