I was looking for a reasonably reliable way of knowing whether the device we're currently running on supports displaying text in a particular language. I found none.
What I ended up doing is that I only display Hindi if Hindi is the current active language in device settings. It's not my ideal solution as I'd like to give users the option to select language independent of device language, however I think this way I can be reasonably sure there will be no garbled text renderings, with no guessing from Android versions necessary. On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Pieter <pie...@gamesquare.nl> wrote: > We have some apps that do great in India. In order to better cater for the > users in that country, we have translated our strings.xml into Hindi. > > However, searching the internet it seems not all Android versions have > adequate support for Hindi, with complaints ranging from "black boxes" > where Hindi characters should show up to "garbled" Hindi output. We find it > difficult to find any hard data on which Android versions have acceptable > Hindi support and which have not. > > Does anyone have any data to share on this (either empirically or from > "official" Google sources)? > > Specifically: > - On which (stock) Android versions is it safe to use Hindi translations > in "values-hi/strings.xml"? > - On which (stock) Android versions is it safe to use Hindi text in a > WebView widget? > > Any input would be appreciated! > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
