Hi all,
i have a general problem with android: how can i set up a locale that's different from the UI language?
in other systems (windows on PC, or symbian on phones), you can set up a locale (which determines how time, date, currency, etc. is displayed) and a language. in android it seems that the two settings are connected, so language also determines the locale. i live in slovakia, so obviously i want a slovak locale, but i also want an english ui. if i set the english language, i have weeks starting with sunday in calendar, and dates separated by slash instead of a dot.
i find this really annoying. is there any way to overcome this limitation? i was using the stock Sony Ericcson firmware as well as Cyanogenmod, so i assume the issue is not rom connected.
Thanks
Good question. I am also interested in the answer.
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As far as I understand the transcriber's recognition capabilities for different languages are defined by the "TranscriberENG" or "TranscriberGER" files within the Windows directory.
I have a german ROM, so I have the "TranscriberGER" file installed, but about 25% of the text I write is in englisch.
Writing englisch text with german language support this is what I'd call a bad user experience.
Is somebody willing to send me a set of the "TranscriberENG" files (There must be two of them, one is approx 50, the other one 145k) so I could try to use them as a replacement when I need english text recognition?
Has any of you already tried to replace these files? Does an easy method for switching languages in transcriber exist, in case muliple language files are installed?
If not, I think it would be great to pack this in a new rom, if possible at all.
Martin
I,m working on it along with keyboard and dictionary langauge options to be user switchable. Progress is slow but hopefully I'll get there in the end.
Richard
That would be really great! Can you tell me more about your progress?
When can we expect a beta version?
Hi
I have tablet with android 3.1. When I have the table all in english everything is fine. But when I switch it into my language (czech), some of the description or names of the app in market got translated into my language (and the translation is very very bad)
I would like to switch this automatic feature off, so I will always see the text in original language (eg English).
It happens within different version of market
I tried to find it, but the only thing I found
http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/developer/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=113469
from this I can see that developer can allow this automatic translation for his app.
But I want to disable it from user perspective.
Thanks.
Not my normal wont to buy such a new machine, but circumstances led to my purchase of a first-day-in-the-store Toshiba AT 700 Regza tablet running Android 3.2. After a couple of days of use, I have encountered one particularly annoying problem:
Voice input works quite well, though still on the basis of a few sentences at a time. However, when I do voice input in Gmail, it switches from English (the current language setting) to Japanese (Toshiba's initial market for the new box).
I'm almost sure this is really a problem with the implementation of FSKAREN, the Japanese conversion system. It's possible that it involves the keyboard selector, however. (Sorry, Dorothy, but the Toshiba website is clearly not ready yet, though I may telephone them later...) This behavior is different from my prior experience with voice input in Android (both versions 2 and 3). However, for whatever it is worth, the Japanese recognition is surprisingly good since my Japanese pronunciation is certainly not native-like.
Any ideas or diagnostic suggestions? I was tweaking around in the keyboard settings and actually got it to accept one sentence in English from within Gmail, but that is obviously not a solution. I'm loathe to disable FSKAREN or even to poke at it too hard, but I'm thinking that one solution might be to use an alternative keyboard and enable the input system selector...
Not sure if the background will help, but most of the applications are running in Japanese, though the main applications (as in those from the Google) and including Gmail do run in English mode with English menus. I can usually get along well enough in Japanese, but most of my correspondents read English, not Japanese...
I posted the same question in the Google forums, but I'm almost certain the increasingly evil Google will evade involvement and my prior experience with those help forums has been distinctly unhelpful. So I decided to be optimistic and try over here, too.
Here is the issue I've run into. Nowhere can I find information about this.
My phone is a StraightTalk Huawei Ascend H866C and it is rooted.
I am looking now at the Build.pop and there are two entries here:
Code:
ro.product.locale.language (set to en)
ro.product.locale.region (set to US)
I was originally born in Germany and I grew up learning and using British English. I now live in the United States (I was actually born as a US citizen).
Here's where the issue comes in, I want to change all language things to being British English, but I don't want the region to change to British, I need any in-app purchases and market purchases to recognise my devise as being located in the USA and display USD and not GBP. I don't want to have to keep using some app to switch my "locale" back and forth between US and GB English.
Well I couldn't find an app that lets you set each one independently and decided to go for that manually, however I can find no information on this.
Now my thinking would be that changing the language to be British English and leaving the region as US would work, however I couldn't find out if something like en_GB would even be recognised in that field.
My granddad recently purchased a 9" android tablet from china, for him it really hasn't paid off. He loved being able to sit down anywhere and just browse the web, play some little games, check emails and view documents for his various charity groups. But the device was slow, poor screen resolution and backlighting and awful at locking onto a WiFi signal.
So this week he bought a galaxy tab 10. He has been much happier with this device and decided to buy a Bluetooth keyboard at the same time.
However he didn't check the layout before purchasing and has accidently bought a US layout keyboard in the UK. Otherwise the keyboard is fine. It doesn't look flash and is made of plastic but it works and you can actually type quite nicely on it, does the job.
Our problem is that when we set the system language on the galaxy tab to English UK shift 2 returns a " symbol as is normal for UK keyboards but the keyboard is a US keyboard and it is marked as @. Setting the system language to English US fixes that. But we're British and use UK English. So far he has been using it this way anyway but it has been annoying him, setting the system language to English US annoyed him more.
Is there a way to set android to use a US layout keyboard but still use a UK system language?
He doesn't want to buy a new keyboard and seems happy enough to live with the US one but would still like the symbols to match up.
I think your solution is External Keybord Helper.
EDIT: It can setup different layout for your external keyboard including different language. And most probably you can manually set up the keyboard layout. First try the demo version if it works than get the pro one.
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