Language setting

[jrtokarz]

Hi,

I am just about to order an N900.

I am english but I live in Germany. I have found a store that will be selling devices with a QWERTY keyboard but I just wanted to know if there are any possible issue with changing the UI language.

It will probably come set to German but I will want to change it to English.

Are there any parts of the OS that won't change to English properly?

[bemymonkey]

Any news on this? I'm pretty much in the same situation...

[pelago]

I'm pretty sure that the onscreen language can be changed to any of the supported languages, on any N900. (That is, you don't need a device bought in Germany to use German language). But someone who has an N900 should probably confirm this for sure.

[Andre Klapper]

Everything should definitely work fine (at least it does for me here on the N900).

[RenegadeFanboy]

where can I find the list of officially supported languages?

[edgar2]

where can I find the list of officially supported languages?

these are available on the pre-production device running 41-10:

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"cestina" (ceska republica)
dansk (denmark)
deutsch (deutschland)
english (uk)
english (usa)
espanol (espana)
francais (canada)
francais (france)
italiano (italia)
nederlands (nederland)
norsk (norge)
polski (polska)
portugues (portugal)
suomi (suomi)
svenska (sverige)
pyccknn (must be russia :) )

[pycage]

I'm pretty sure that the onscreen language can be changed to any of the supported languages, on any N900. (That is, you don't need a device bought in Germany to use German language). But someone who has an N900 should probably confirm this for sure.

Confirmed, running German language on a preproduction unit with QWERTY keyboard on a German carrier. And I have all the umlauts on the onscreen keyboard.

[bemymonkey]

Does changing the OS language change the keyboard layout as well? Or can you set them separately? How about hardware keyboard vs. software keyboard?

I'll probably be getting the German version, but want to use it in English with an English keyboard layout (I'll put stickers on there or something)... :)

[edgar2]

Does changing the OS language change the keyboard layout as well? Or can you set them separately? How about hardware keyboard vs. software keyboard?

I'll probably be getting the German version, but want to use it in English with an English keyboard layout (I'll put stickers on there or something)... :)

you define the keyboard layout separately, under settings > text input.

i didn't understand what you meant by "how about hardware keyboard vs software keyboard?".

[bemymonkey]

I meant whether you can change the software keyboard's layout without changing the hardware keyboard's layout :)

[Andre Klapper]

Yes, you can.

[bemymonkey]

Awesome. Thanks for the info! :)

[0Dark Knight0]

What about arabic Language!!!???
why not supported yet!!!

[Andre Klapper]

What about arabic Language!!!???
why not supported yet!!!

Discussion of Arabic support has happened already in http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=33538 as you know.
There is no need to post the same question in other threads again.

[colourblind]

Hi just wondering if there is only 1 language used in the phone or can we choose? I live in france so obviously my keyboard will be the AZERTY one :( but i hope the system can be changed from english-french as well.

thanks for ur replies

[sjgadsby]

Threads merged.

I live in france so obviously my keyboard will be the AZERTY one :( but i hope the system can be changed from english-french as well.

Please read back through the thread. Thank you.

[riahc3]

I have a related question.

If I get a USA English QWERTY keyboard, but I perfer a spanish layout can I for example make the "W" key, which is a letter not used in spanish, to make it output another letter which is common in spanish?

[anapospastos]

any way to write in greek with the physical keyboard? now only with the keyboard on screen