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[Pat McGowan <pat.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/30/2013 08:11 AM, Rasmus Eneman wrote:
> I assume fonts for Chinese as well as other languages will be included
> at a later stage?
>
It may be that the initial OOBE setup will include selecting a language
that will install the appropriate fonts. It would probably bloat the
image too much to keep all the fonts installed.

Pat
>
> 2013/5/30 Pat McGowan <pat.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:pat.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>
>     On 05/27/2013 05:29 AM, Ricky Chan wrote:
>>     Is there a language I could push to the phone in order for it to
>>     DISPLAY languages other than the ones with alphabets? I view a
>>     lot of traditional chinese on a daily basis, whether it is
>>     webistes or contacts.
>>
>>     It's not about localization or inputting but just simply
>>     displaying the languages.
>>
>>     Thank you.
>>
>>
>
>     We’re not shipping any font that supports Chinese in the image.
>
>     A quick fix for this situation is to install the fonts-droid
>     package (that’s the default font set for Android, it covers an
>     extensive character set, including simplified and traditional
>     Chinese, licensed under the Apache2 license). Not sure what the
>     other options are, but that one works nicely.
>
>     When installed, it’s able to display both the UI in Chinese (where
>     translations are available and with the correct language setup),
>     and web pages in Chinese (tested with news.cn <http://news.cn>,
>     webkit knows how to pick the right font).
>
>     Cheers,
>
>      Olivier
>
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