Xoom is absolutely not a US only device.   You can buy it in Singapore
where I live from official channels.   Also, 3.1 still only got the 3
languages which makes your 'reference " Honeycomb device pretty
useless for localization testing -

On Jun 10, 2:28 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote:
> The initial Xoom was a US-only device, so the other languages were not
> needed.  Since that was the first release of Android 3.0, generating all of
> the translations would have delayed the product for stuff it didn't need.
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> It is just going to be a fact of life that different devices will ship with
> different languages depending on the places it is being shipped and other
> considerations.
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> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Zsolt Vasvari <zvasv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > But even my Xoom only includes 3 languages so it's almost useless for
> > testing translations -
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> > On Jun 9, 12:04 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote:
> > > Nexus One has a smaller partition for the system image, so can't fit
> > every
> > > possible thing.  New translations were added to the platform after the
> > > initial Nexus One release, but those new translations are not included on
> > N1
> > > due to the limited space.
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> > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Paolo <brand...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > yes those fonts are for the last platform, I guess Gingerbread that
> > > > provides an extended language support.
> > > > However I noticed something strange... On my Nexus S there are a lot
> > > > of languages supported selectable, on the other hand on my Nexus One
> > > > (always 2.3.4) there are only a subset of those.
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> > > > I expected they were the same... I am a bit confused! :|
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> > > > On 8 Giu, 12:23, James Ots <james...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Here are the fonts in the android source.
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> >http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git;a=tree;...
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> > > > > These are listed in the makefile
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> > > > > DroidSans.ttf
> > > > > DroidSans-Bold.ttf
> > > > > DroidSansArabic.ttf
> > > > > DroidSansHebrew.ttf
> > > > > DroidSansThai.ttf
> > > > > DroidSerif-Regular.ttf
> > > > > DroidSerif-Bold.ttf
> > > > > DroidSerif-Italic.ttf
> > > > > DroidSerif-BoldItalic.ttf
> > > > > DroidSansMono.ttf
> > > > > Clockopia.ttf
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> > > > > Although I can't see any guarantee that these will be there, I think
> > you
> > > > can probably assume that any Compatible Android device will have these
> > fonts
> > > > available.
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> > > > > James
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