{"id":562,"date":"2011-12-22T08:36:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T08:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microblog.ravidreams.net\/?p=562"},"modified":"2021-11-06T15:38:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T10:08:24","slug":"android-ics-support-for-tamil-indic-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apptamil.com\/android-ics-support-for-tamil-indic-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Android ICS support for Tamil and Indic languages"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest Android Ice Cream Sandwich<\/strong> release was keenly awaited by Indic languages as the earlier versions did not provide native support. I upgraded the OS in my Google Nexus S and found that Tamil is supported well in some native apps. Earlier we could only rely on some external android apps or hacks to view Tamil<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Here is a summary of the issues I observed:<\/p>\n

1. Tamil is shown well in Android’s native browser and Facebook app. However, the letters are seen scrambled in many other apps like Twitter, Music and SMS.<\/p>\n

Inference: Android provides native support for Tamil but the apps also have to code well to show it. Is it possible to do a single app that will fix this problem in all other apps present?
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\n2. Tamil, Bengali, Marathi and Hindi are the only Indian languages supported for now<\/strong>. Oh ya, it can also show English well without a problem \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

But, how did they choose these four languages? Possible guesses:<\/p>\n

* Languages by number of speakers<\/a> (But Telugu has more speakers than Tamil) ?<\/p>\n

* Possibility of revenue generation in these languages (Ad revenue in all Indic languages are almost nill or equal) ?<\/p>\n

* Based on the activity online? (I would guess that it is based on the volume of content, search queries, people using Google interfaces in their language).<\/p>\n

* Developers passionate in their own language? (very much possible)<\/p>\n

* National language status? ( Hindi, Tamil, Bengali are national languages in different countries. But choice of Marathi can’t be explained)<\/p>\n

\"Android-Tamil-Indic-languages-support\"<\/a>
Google.co.in showing Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Hindi and English in Android ICS browser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Android ICS Pro Tip: You can take screen shots like this by pressing the volume+power button together. The screen shots will be stored in your gallery. Then, you can share them easily across the web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest Android Ice Cream Sandwich release was keenly awaited by Indic languages as the earlier versions did not provide native support. I upgraded the OS in my Google Nexus S and found that Tamil is supported well in some native apps. Earlier we could only rely on some external android apps or hacks to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apptamil.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apptamil.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apptamil.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apptamil.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apptamil.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/apptamil.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1154,"href":"https:\/\/apptamil.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apptamil.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apptamil.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apptamil.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}