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[Matthew Fischer <matthew.fischer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We are working to officially support this but here is a solution that I
know works for Chinese and hopefully will work for the other ones you
mentioned. It requires making the image r/w and is not supported in any
way. This will also make your image non-updateable, so you'll have to
reflash to get newer images. Additionally there are many non-translated
items still, but if you want to try it, here is what you can do:

1) Modify /etc/environment and /etc/default/locale to change the locale. In
/etc/environment, change LANG and LANGUAGE. You can use sed if you want
like this (example for Chinese): "sed -e s/en_US/zh_CN/ -i.orig
/etc/default/locale && sed -e s/en_US/zh_CN/ -i.orig /etc/environment"
2) Run locale-gen <locale> <locale.UTF8> for example, "locale-gen zh_CN
zh_CN.UTF-8"
3) Reboot the device

If you have issues with some bad characters then you've run into the font
fallback bug <https://bugs.launchpad.net/sevilerow/+bug/1189352>. You can
work-around it by doing the following:

1) rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-droid-sans-fonts.conf
2) fc-cache -f -v -s
3) Reboot


On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> probably language-pack-* should depend on a font required for rendering
> the locale in question.
>
> Actually it seems they do but maybe it would be good idea to double-check.
>
> Thanks
>
> Michal
>
>
> On 3 October 2013 12:58, Joey Chan <qqworini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I don't think this bug is from locale, environment, setting, conf, etc..
>>  I just add some *.ttf files to make the language support available
>>
>>
>> 2013/10/3 Penk Chen <penk.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> FYI, I've created one (seemly related) bug here:
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/+bug/1189352
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> penk
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Joey Chan <qqworini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Ladies and Gentlemen,
>>>>
>>>> For those who are living in east-Asian countries(China, Korea, Japan),
>>>> pls have a test about your native language support in Ubuntu-Touch, e.g.
>>>> use webbrowser to see a native website.
>>>>
>>>> 1. Release Notes
>>>> The Release Notes website
>>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/ReleaseNotes#Language  has a sulotion
>>>> for installing fonts-droid, but in latest version of
>>>> Ubuntu-Touch, fonts-droid is already the latest version;
>>>>
>>>> 2. choose language in setting
>>>> Flick the list to the end, all east-Asian languages are broken, include
>>>> Japanese,   Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean;
>>>>  screenshot 7.png<https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1Fa0vQaKud1SkZKbG1pWklZRTA/edit?usp=drive_web>
>>>>
>>>> 3. use the webbrowser to test language support
>>>>
>>>> * 4. manually add fonts to Touch
>>>> I tried copy all my fonts from /usr/share/fonts/truetype/  to the same
>>>> directory in Touch, then I saw different fonts shown all-in-one sentence
>>>>
>>>>  screenshot 6.png<https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1Fa0vQaKud1dVN0SkNoTUp2WVE/edit?usp=drive_web>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ** Suggestion from David:*
>>>> to help improve Ubuntu-Touch, pls follow:
>>>> 1. copy your desktop fonts to phone one by one, until your native
>>>> language is supported;
>>>> 2. collect enough info (font file name, desktop version, which
>>>> language, etc..);
>>>> 3. reply this email or report to Canonical directly (I'm not an
>>>> official, but David is) ;
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> BR,
>>>> Joey from China
>>>>
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