Re: Will Maemo support East-Asian Languages?
 

Not in Winmo.. they dont have multi-languages localization so it wont display any other languages apart from the OS language itself.

Re: Will Maemo support East-Asian Languages?
 

Right, WinMo != Windows. It's a nasty work-alike with the same name slapped on it. To make WinMo display/input anything other than english it takes a bit of work. I managed to bash WinMo 4.3 into working with Japanese, but it was flaky.

Maemo runs the same Linux that your desktop PC can, which uses UTF-8 systemwide, I suspect that display will be system wide and problem free, while input projects are currently in progress.

Re: Will Maemo support East-Asian Languages?
 

Yeah, the input is not a big deal for me. Not having it im ok, having it im very happy.

Re: Will Maemo support East-Asian Languages?
 

some people are working on ibus for N900.

Re: Will Maemo support East-Asian Languages?
 

How do I install Thai font exactly? Need help here.

Re: Will Maemo support East-Asian Languages?
 

here's another thread specifically for Korean.

Seems N900 can display Korean for both file names and Web browsing.
But I'm not sure how to go about getting it to work once I take it out of the box.
(I'm still waiting for my N900 to arrive from Amazon......)

Also, is getting Korean/Japanese input to work using the hardware keyboard really difficult to do on N900?

Re: Will Maemo support East-Asian Languages?
 

I am using N900 to view Chinese and Japanese webpages and it works just fine. But there is not yet any way to input chinese (except perhaps using a website dictionary and ctrl+c, ctrl+v).

Re: Will Maemo support East-Asian Languages?
 

mscim appeared in devel-extras this evening.
i installed it and its deps (mscim mscim-modules-table mscim-tables-ja) and it works great!

there is a configuration app in the n900 settings.
ctrl+space changes input methods.

mind that this disables the SYM key and virtual keyboard functionalities, just like on the 810 =\
anyone know how to easily get to the extra symbols (specifically the pipe |)?

Re: Will Maemo support East-Asian Languages?
 

hallgreng, I also found it today by chance and installed it on my N900, but I couldn't make it work. Ctrl+Space does nothing... I installed the same packages you wrote on your post, and even restarted the device... do you know what could be missing or wrong?

Re: Will Maemo support East-Asian Languages?
 

hm, no i dont know what the problem could be.
i rendered my tablet unbootable last night (be careful when remapping keys!) and just reflashed and then reinstalled those listed packages, it works fine for me without any configuration (tested in an xterm immediately after install/reboot).

are you holding the Ctrl/Sym key when you press Spacebar?


it would be really nice to be able to launch the Sym menu. i mapped | to the 'sterling' key, but i miss []{} etc...
also its dangerous as hell to mess with the keymappings. i was trying to map a fourth-level keypress differently than its third-level and that left me unbootable.
anyone have an idea to get to the extra keys in the virtual keyboard?