Why Android do not support Vietnamsese?

[onimsha]

I have a T-mobile G1 and i discoverd that this phone is completely not support vietnamsese. I'm a vietnamsese so that i can't view website from my country. Can T-mobile or google or someone give me some answers? Thanks for any help!!!

[DaYuMu6ft7]

OH WOW!

But they love the Japanese, I think

(Don't quote me on that)

[jopari]

If I had to guess it's probably because it's not officially offered in Vitnam. The first release of the iPhone didn't have support for international owners simply because international people weren't supposed to own it.

[onimsha]

i think that is not the reason. Actually unicode today support vietnamsese in native. So that i cannot understand that why android do not include our language , like another applications of google.....?

[cal3thousand]

i've seen where you can add the symbols used in vietnamese. I am VN, can't read it that well.

I just looked, and it's missing a few things to make it VN worthy. maybe they will include it in an update in the future.

BTW to see what I'm talking about, hold down a vowel while typing.

[Sakodax]

I know some developers are making lang packs for android...
Sadly I do not see theVietnamese pack as one being in production.

Maybe Google will release a lang pack update or something in the future.

Its like me trying to use a phone ment to be in japan. I can only read so much Japanese... and a lot of the good phones will never ever make it here...GREAT phones over there btw...

[ghoonk]

Oddly enough, my G1 won't display Arabic characters (not that I can read them anyway), but displays Chinese characters just fine. I suspect it has something to do with the fonts not being installed, but I'm guessing that it's just a matter of loading the right fontset into the phone, and having a modified RC30 probably helps in this case

[xdavidn88]

Probably a racist thing.

Just kidding haha.

[onimsha]

sign...... so that i could only hope they will update their OS soon......Hope that they won't forget the vietnamese or the Arabian......

[mingkee]

you just need appropriate font and registry
G1 has DroidSans font (supports East Asian lanugage)
you can configure font setting and install the font to support, even Arabic