Thread: N900 vs Iphone.
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shusai is offline shusai
2009-09-10 , 11:31
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#165
Originally Posted by frals View Post
Now, I don't know much about how hard it would be to switch the locale on Maemo, but shouldn't it be pretty straight-forward to add language support as its open source?

EDIT: Non-latin languages would obviously be hard to type out with the QWERTY, but you get the stylus and the touchscreen for "icon" based languages...
Well, it doesn't seem to be that easy...
There is (was ?) the Maemo CJK project, which tried to enable Chinese, Japanese and Korean input (output isn't such a problem, only some fonts have to be installed) on the N700/8x0, but it never really worked. For example, it only worked for some applications, was not able to change the input-method on-the-fly, the original virtual keyboard got replaced and couldn't be restored anymore, ...
The developers even suggested to be prepared to reflash your device!
So that are only 3 languages and already many problems, but what about other asian languages, what about languages written from right to left, such as Arabic or Hebrew?