My previous device was a SE P800 running on Symbian OS UIQ.
To change the localization of the device, you were able to download a language pack, install it, and then it would be available as an option in the "Language" control panel, so you could easily switch interface from english to russian to greek and so on.
I know that Windows mobile has different versions (DE, EN, FR, CH, etc). When (if ever) will have this sort of functionality? I know you can go over to penreader.com and purchase locations, but it's more of a hack rather than a normal/standard solution.
Any ideas?
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I'm having some troubles with my contacts, appointments etc. I have chosen to have an english PPC because most software etc. is in english anyway, but my OS and Outlook is in Danish so I get double appointments for birthdays etc. e.g. both one in danish and one in english. What can I do?
I'm thinking of switching to the english Outlook that came with my PPC but since it's only 2002 and I have 2007 now it's quite a step back
What do you mean by 'get double'?
Do you enter them twice - once in English on the PPC and once in Danish on the PC or do they somehow duplicate them selves?
In the first case, there is no reason to suffer. WWE (World Wide English) ROMs come with Danish locale in regional settings. Also I believe the fonts on the device should support any extra characters your language uses so all you need is a proper virtual keyboard.
Just google for a 'Danish keyboard for PPC'. You can install extra keyboards just like any other program.
If I am wrong and your language alphabet is not included in the fonts on the device (does Danish use Latin / Western European characters?) you can always copy the fonts from your PC.
This way while your PPC will be primarily in English it will still fully support reading and writing Danish.
If it is a second case - though I can't imagine how something would get automatically translated I am not sure what the solution is.
Well it is the second case, I guess it's because both the PPC and Outlook makes the appointments based on my contacts.
I have made the changes to regional settings and also use a danish keyboard plugin. Danish uses Latin /western.
Would it be a good idea to switch ROM maybe to danish version? Or maybe I should just bite the apple and get windows/office in english.
I take it now that you changed the region it still happens?
One last thing you could try before more desperate measures:
Backup your device (you can use SPB Backup trial if you do not already have a backup), then using the built in file explorer rename pim.vol (in root of your device) to something else and reset. This will delete all your contacts, appointments etc on the device. Now back your pst file on the PC just in case, and sync the device.
If nothing went horribly wrong all your info should be in Danish and the duplication should go away.
hello all,
i'm lloking for a solution - i just bought a htc 4350 in germany -so it came with wm5 in the german language , when i'm connected with the wifi i can't see nothing with hebrew encoding, how can i solve it? is there a free hebrew package that i can install on my phone ?
thanks in advance -- fensi
I know of companies selling Hebrew support but I don't think there is a free solution.
The problem with languages like Hebrew and Arabic is that MS neglected to implement right-to-left writing mechanism in Windows Mobile. Doing that with 3rd party software is fairly complicated which is why I think so far only commercial products are available.
You can of course copy fonts from desktop windows to the windows folder on the device (don't forget to reset it afterwards) but you will see everything backwards.
Hello, i'm looking for a way to install a languages support on my Qtek 9100 like windows. I need to read and write a lit a languages in my pocket pc. There is any ways ?
there is no way to modify the windows xp's languages support's DLLs ?
No official MUI packs available.
However depends on which language you want, there may be language support software available that let you view and enter that language.
YEs but i seen you have made on your own a traditional chinese support. 太酷啦哈哈. 你怎麼辦 ? Have you programmed DLL or what?
Hi!
So I'm from Sweden but I always prefer menus in English whether it be my mobile phone or computer. Although I want to use everything bound to the metric system.
If I set it to UK - English I get miles in google maps for instance, imperial ****.
So this is done easy in windows mobile or in Windows/Ubuntu.
How can I do this with my android device?
Thanks!
Hi all!
A lot of users want to use several input languages in their devices. Why not cooking a really multi-language ROM supporting UIs in different languages and multiple keyboard layouts? It is possible as some devices (e.g. Samsung OmniaPro) are delivered with a ROM supporting UI and HW/SW keyboard resources in several languages which every user can switch. I've also read about such custom ROMs for HTC Touch. Additionaly, in ROMs for non-latin languages (like Russian, Chinese) user can switch between latin and national keyboard layout by pressing the SYM button, and there are solutions like AEKMap.
What is to be done to create a ML ROM work, is to integrate
1) *.mui system files for several languages
2) an app (basically a registry updater) where user can activate a particular UI language and which keyboard layouts (one, or two, or maybe three?) have to be switched by pressing the SYM button.
My personal use case is as follows: I own a HTC P4350 with standard German ROM (6.0) and QWERTZ layout and need two things: 1) the additional Russian input for the hardware keyboard and 2) Russian UI. The only way now is flashing a Russian ROM - which will alas change QWERTZ (Ger) to QWERTY (Eng) and then using a tweak to set the layout back to QWERTY (yes, I've read those threads).
I've experimented a little bit without flashing, just by copying *.0419.mui files to the device (0419 for RU) and editing the registry like advised in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=366756. However there is obviously more to be changed or added than I could discover. The best method to catch all the differencies is probably to compare two registries of same ROM version but in different languages, or to check solutions for other devices.
What do you think? Can someone try to cook a ML ROM? No matter WM 6.0, 6.1 or 6.5.
You see the main problem in doing that is the conflicts that would occur in creating a ml ROM.
But what we can do is install apps like FingerKeyboard with ml support and doing as you're doing.
But the conflicts I am talking about may render your device useless.
Tribulattifather, thanks for your point.
1. Why should there be conflicts with P4350 if there are apparently none with other devices? Which conflicts for example?
2. FingerKeyboard is for the screen keyboard, but I'm talking about the hardware keyboard.
Look at this:
msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa911786.aspx
msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa913008.aspx
I apologize, I forgot to mention the problems in my last post. You see, I have actually tried to adopt a similar theory. The problems that I faced where in the process of cooking the ROM. The ROM would not boot. And when I finally got 1 ROM that was a German/WWE combo, the device would constantly shut down because the device was trying to call to an operation expecting one thing and getting another.
But maybe we can figure something out from an already cooked ROM in WWE. I will experiment and let you know what I find out.
Tribulattifather, what you describe sounds more like a kitchen problem, because, as I've already mentionned, there are official multilingual WM ROMs. I have another mobile device, a Samsung OmniaPro P7330, which runs under official WM6.5 with a ROM supporting English US, English UK, German, Italian, French and Spanish UIs. There is a menu item in Regional Settings for switching the UI, it requires a soft reset, and voila, after the reboot everything is in another language (but not the keyboard layout).
On the other hand, official ROMs for non-latin languages like Russian support two input methods, one for Russian and one for English.
It would be great to figure out how it works. Can a look into registry dumps from a Herald with Russian firmware and from my multilingual-UI'ed smartphone help you?