BIDI spport (aka Arabic, hebrew...) - Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi all,
I have been looking around for long time and trying different solutions to add Arabic (BIDI or RTL) support to my vibrant but with no luck.the only thing is just adding the font so instead of showing squares it shows the letters but disconnected and in reverse order.
Have any one been successful in porting the language support from the i9000 middle eastern rom? I tried but my phone will not boot and I don't know how to access the log at that stage to see why or what is missing.
Do we have a better built in support in froyo? Or it is the same?
I have seen many threads in many forums but most are not active for long time.
Any help will be appreciated.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

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I managed to make an arabic 2.1 rom. Everything works fine with exception of GPS. Just do not know how to create a flashable zip file for the rom to post it.

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arahma said:
I managed to make an arabic 2.1 rom. Everything works fine with exception of GPS. Just do not know how to create a flashable zip file for the rom to post it.
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How did you do it?
Where did you get the files from? or you compiled your own?
Is it working now right-to-left and reshaping?
I would appreciate your help.
I am running now BIONIX1.6 rom (based on T959UVJI6). what is yours?

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I have made a nandroid backup file. I can put it in online.

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arahma said:
I have made a nandroid backup file. I can put it in online.
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Please do i would greatly appreciate it ill even try to make an update from it. My friend would call you a life saver

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i need hebrew support for this device 2 im using bionix 1.7 there is a script for fixing the framework.jar but after use with it the phone wont load the homescreen

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arahma said:
I have made a nandroid backup file. I can put it in online.
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That will be awesome, but would you also provide more details about what ROM you are running and what have you done and where did get the update files from.

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oror494 said:
i need hebrew support for this device 2 im using bionix 1.7 there is a script for fixing the framework.jar but after use with it the phone wont load the homescreen
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Can you provide us with that script or show where to get it from? maybe we can update it to work with the new rom.
There is an update rom running froyo 2.2 for Orange (I9000JHJP4) and has support for Arabic and hebrew, i tried to get some files from it to my 2.1 but did not work, i know i am missing more files that should be also integrated. that rom is for the international Galaxy S i9000 so it might not work with Vibrant
you can find the rom at samfirmware.com

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windows
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9085803/Hebrew 0.7/hebfix_script_0.71_win.zip
mac /linux
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9085803/Hebrew 0.6/hebfix_script_0.64.zip
credit: classicaldude

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oror494 said:
windows
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9085803/Hebrew 0.7/hebfix_script_0.71_win.zip
mac /linux
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9085803/Hebrew 0.6/hebfix_script_0.64.zip
credit: classicaldude
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Thanks, i will see if i can fix or update this script. By the way what happens when you run it now? do you get an error or what?

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fduraibi said:
Thanks, i will see if i can fix or update this script. By the way what happens when you run it now? do you get an error or what?
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http://www.multiupload.com/ZBK8NCMTDF
this is the log txt

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oror494 said:
http://www.multiupload.com/ZBK8NCMTDF
this is the log txt
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I tested this patch without any changes and got the same error
I am trying to understand this java disassembled code to be able to fix it for the new ROM.
The patch already cover the full range of unicode characters for hebrew and arabic + other rtl languages.
Can anyone help me with generally understanding the disassembled code or provide links to some resources that can help?
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

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any luck?
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oror494 said:
any luck?
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nope
there is a lot of line reference shift and i am not sure what or where are these reference and how can i update the new code based on these values.

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oror494 said:
any luck?
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Look at this thread, one guy is trying the same thing and he is getting the same error, and i think he got a work around in a hebrew site which i could not understand so you might find the solution to your problem there http://iandroid.co.il/forum/topic5657.html but for me I still need the Arabic character reshaping so RTL alone is not enough
And this is the link to the XDA thread where they discuss the same issues, and it seems that they are about to integrate the BIDI solution into the AOSP and CM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=701281