[HTC Desire S] loveboatcaptain:
the next thing is the language thing.

let me please explain some mechanics of the google android language stuff first.

and please be kind with me. my english is not the best and this is difficult to explain for me... even in german ;) cause i´m not very deep into that thing like other dev´s. it´s the first time i´ve handle this stuff in htc sense.

we have different RUU´s from HTC. for each continent another one. this versions are localized, not only the language. some days ago i wrote similar stuff about the radio image.

so a european RUU have the european languages in framework. the RUU from china only had chinese and english.

a very strange thing is that the RUU WWE (means World Wide Edition) from Telstra which is basement of my rom hand ONLY english in the settings menu.

i played a bit with some xml files which are stored in /system/customise/CID and found out that some of these files are way smaler than the files i used in the early builds of my rom before v0.3.x. the first builds are made from the unbranded RUU from europe which was HTC build 1.28 for those who are new to this rom ;)

so i changed those xml files which contains language setting.

after reinstalling the rom with new files all the european languages (and some more which where enabled in this RUU)where back. but not all i wanted.

telstra is a real funking ***** to cut this WWE to the ground and to place everywhere their brandings.

good thing is that changing those files removed a lot of the branding stuff ;)

i contacted seo (the dev from the sense3.0 stuff) and asked if i understand that mechanic right. he suggested to use his xml files for a test if they are compatible. and they where ;) on the htc desire hd there are unbranded RUU WWE´s... so i just took all those setting files from an unbranded desire hd ruu ;)

i found out that these files are not device specific and as long you use a framework which is WWE (and the telstra ruu is a real wwe but languages are disabled) you could enable all the languages which are part of that ruu.

puuuh... that was hard stuff... but i hope you understand what i´m trying to tell you.

that leads to the questions of the hebrew and arabic users ;) like this one

please keep in might what i´ve written above.

i only enabled the default languages which where made by GOOGLE ;) not HTC not ME ;) so this was all i could do for language support. enable all possible languages from the original htc rom´s.

saga lbc mod is not CM7... for now ;) the AOSP community have those specific languages and letter styles and left align and right algin etc. but htc sense is not AOSP (CM7).

if i understand that right what some user wrote me.

google didn´t provide real hebrew language support. there is a setting to choose, but there is english behind as kind of placeholder. google promised full hebrew with android 2.4.

i think arabic is the same issue. i couldn´t test arabic, cause i don´t know where issues are. i´m not able to read arabic or hebrew ;)

BUT it wouldn´t be me, when i had nothing in my pockets to make this bad news a good news ;)

i´ve investigated a little bit on that and found two guys who bring hebrew and arabic language support to the htc desire hd. the android evolution rom has add-ons for hebrew and arabic. i will try to port that add-ons but i need at least one native speaker for hebrew and one for arabic to test is this could be work for us. if not wee wil find a way ;) when i know what to change i could build it from scratch for our rom. that shouldn´t be a big problem. it´s only decompile some files, include the new stuff, recompile, sign, flash. sounds easy... but it isn´t... means for me.

i will try to test a port of the add-ons the next days. if it´s booting i will made you a test version. you can report back if it´s ok or not.

sound´s good? i think so ;)

i understand that language issue as a high priority thing. nothing suckz more than have this cool phone but not with your mother language.

let´s see if i could implement it in v0.5.3 ;)

regards