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I am attaching another screenshot of the Locale Setting.

I noticed the same issue with the emulator. i also checked the /system/fonts dir and there is no sign of hindi fonts.

@sasidublin, agreed. Not only do they not have a font they don't have any shaper that can handle Hindi in Android 2.3. So that's bad. Someone taking care of i18n should really check his notes. Just putting localized strings for languages like Hindi would not work as some form of shaper is still needed to render them. So the issues are:

1) Missing Shaper for Hindi. Just supporting locale without a shaper is meaningless.
2) Missing Font for Hindi.

However the Platform Highlights says thus:


New Platform Technologies

Core libraries:

Expanded I18N support (full worldwide encodings, more locales)

Locales

The system image included in the downloadable SDK platform provides a variety of built-in locales. In some cases, region-specific strings are available for the locales. In other cases, a default version of the language is used. The languages that are available in the Android 2.3 system image are listed below (with language_country/region locale descriptor).

Hi,
How about the browser rendering?
Is Webkit is able to render the indian languages properly?

Just square boxes in Browser. For Hindi font does not exist at all, and even if we added our own font, rendering will still be broken. Will try to add font and upload a test here.

Yup @nasamissions is correct. That is exactly wat I see on my emulator. Using emulator's browser I went to my Hindi blog and I still see the pestiferous square boxes on the web pages. Same result for Google's Hindi news website. Come on Google!! Really?

Anyways people, make sure that in addition to writing your comments here, please remember to click on the "Star" button on top-left corner of this defect page to push this defect up in queue.

@ravi please do share if anything works out.

Thanks!

yes dude,
you are right, still the square boxes are displaying.
it's pathetic to see the square boxes. C'mon google... wake up.

Hmm this seems to be a very annoying issue..... as Sandeep said... Google people please wake up !!
Seemingly the rendering of Hindi is still not "upto the mark."

Finished testing by putting mangal.ttf as DroidSansFallback.ttf into /system/fonts/
As expected re-ordering and halant/half-forms is not working. But if Google can put in Arabic font even though it does not work, I think it would be great if they would also put in a Hindi font even if it does not work.

Didn't see this post and I just reported this issue as well.

ID : 13022

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13022&q=status%3DNew&sort=-id%20status&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars

It's mind numbing to see many news site claiming Hindi to be supported just based on the release notes from Android. So far no news sites has claimed otherwise, I think this bug begs to be publicized to gain more attention. Anyone that can help, please?

Good work on testing the SDK. It is disappointing that Hindi is being neglected by i18n team of Android again and again. Does anyone know a lead/developer inside the mighty Google who can help us get this issue some more love.

Starred this issue.  

@Ravi.Chhabra
I have been on crusade (for lack of a better word) to ask Android team members that I could identify on twitter or otherwise for ETA on Hindi support. Till now I have been a single man's team. I have written to TSeng when he used to work for Google, now he is at Facebook. Had gotten a generic reply from him in past. I have written to Romain Guy and Nikesh Arora (Head of Google Sales). Haven't received any replies from them. I agree with you, if we want this to work we have to coordinate and collectively put pressure on Android team through blogs and news media or any other medium. For God sakes its embarrassing, look at Enhancement #5597 demanding Arabic support, it has 5628 stars and 5018 comments in less than one year. And our Enhancement has been around for 2 years with just 134 stars and 92 comments. Then we wonder why us Indians get short-change again and again. This is not just about getting Hindi support. Its Devnagri (big umbrella) and with it will come support for other Indian languages of different charset too. I hope the fence sitters will shed their "my language first" chauvinism and unite to get Google to stop ignoring us.

If you are on Facebook, then suggest this page to all your friends and ask them to star this complaint
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Support-for-Devanagari-in-Android/124395064291990?v=wall

I have a Samsung Galaxy 3 running Android 2.1 and surprisingly, it renders Hindi perfectly. I guess Samsung fixes the engine on their part. Also, I rooted the phone and it does have a DroidHindi.ttf in /system/fonts.

Pratulkkalia,
That is good news for me. I would see if I can download the source of Samsung Galaxy 3. I have also read a similar feedback from another person for Galaxy 5 (I5801)Android 2.1 Eclair. It also supports Hindi perfectly out of the box. This means it's time to get that ROM modded for another devices.Can you confirm if they have a keyboard as well?

Back some months I emaild HTC India about Hindi and they told me 'regional' languages were not supported on HTC. If Sumsung supports it kudos to them, and we should let our Indian audience know that this korean company values our country a lot more than HTC. Samsung like you have mentioned obviously is using a non Google technology to achieve this. Will report more after running the galaxy 5 image.

Nope, there is no keyboard for Hindi input. I checked that.

I tried adding Mangal font by renaming it to DroidSansFallback.ttf, it won't work on LG GT540 Optimus

@Pratulkalia: Thanks for the update. Can you pull that DroidHindi.ttf out of /system/fonts & share with us? May be it is more optimized for mobile phones than Mangal.ttf.

@ravi: I agree on that Korean company values our country point of yours. This should be mentioned on that FB page also.

All: DroidSansFallback.ttf trick works on HTC Hero.

Samsung Galaxy 3 - DroidHindi.ttf

@tejasdj,
please make me and Preeka admins on the FB page so that we could upload
pictures and do more stuff on that page. Thanks.

Hi, Do you have a small description on how to add (or replace) the font file? I'm not really good in this rooting / modding stuff. Perhaps that would also be something for the Facebook page?

Thanks!

Good point. It shall be added.

@ravi.chhabra
I have made you the admin

kindly give devnagri/hindi support in android.

Hi please fix the bug to  to proper support hindi fonts in android so it will be useful in crating application targeted to Indian market.

Once Android phones go below Rs. 5000 level there will be a lot more pressure to support Hindi and other Indian languages.

Kudos to Samsung for supporting Hindi. One more reason to buy Samsung.

Google, please support Hindi in Android.

Android phones costing less than 5000 INR? Already, the phones costing 12K INR (like the Samsung Galaxy 3) are amazingly slow and underpowered. Phones that cheap will have such useless hardware that the entire Android experience will be destroyed. I played around with a Micromax Android phone worth 8000 INR recently and it took me 5 seconds to open the dialer or the Contacts app.

IMO, I hope that never happens. People will buy cheap Android phones and expect the same level of awesomeness as they see on higher end ones. That's disappointing. Maybe we need a stripped down light weight version of Android for those phones :-)

@ ravi.chhabra,
@ Finished testing by putting mangal.ttf as DroidSansFallback.ttf into /system/fonts/

did you changed the font files in the emulator? i am trying to do it in the emulator, but unsuccesful.
can you please share the mangal.ttf file with us. So that it will be useful to test.

@pratulka...@gmail.com
@kitallis

Can you post the libwebcore.so libskiagl.so libskia.so files. They are in the /system/lib folder. There is method to get Arabic support by replacing those from a device which has full Arabic support.

Moore's law is relentless. What is slow for you may be ok for me.

Please support Hindi Fonts in Android. There are a lot of people in India.

Hi,

I am Samsung's 'Galaxy S' mobile phone user, it has Android 2.1 OS. I am looking for Indian Font (specially Hindi) in it. Please tell me how to set Hindi Fonts in Galaxy S.
Thanks...

Hi , the complext text rendering will be supported in "HoneyComb" release. As quoted by android framework engineer. This will hopefully will resolve all the indian language support issues.

Check this link for more details
http://groups.google.com/group/android-platform/browse_thread/thread/3dc8d17daf955348/9bd1799a0f5fcd6d?#9bd1799a0f5fcd6d

Hi,

I'm a Sri Lankan Sinhalese & an Android app developer. In my opinion we can't wait until Android officailly supports our Indic scripts. Therefore I developed the SETT Browser, a mobile web browser for Android which can render & display Sinhala & Tamil unicode web text.

SETT Browser: http://code.google.com/p/sett-browser/

This is an open-source app & I developed this only for Sinhala & Tamil Indic scripts since I've no language knowledge about the other Indic scripts such as Hindi. But if anyone of you can help me, I'm ready to extend the language support of the SETT Browser to support Hindi as well.

You can contact me via mail: dhanikaperera[at]gmail[dot]com

Thanks!

Dhani is right. We should not wait. Google has *not* said Indic will be supported in 3.0, they just said 3.0 will include harfbuzz which are two entirely different things. As for me I prefer to put the support into the OS rather than write an app that supports it. We can do what was done for Arabic. As we lack a place to meet and share what we have I will update our progress on Burmese (Myanmar) shaping here. Currently we have written a shaper similar to Better Arabic Reshaper and have hooked it to dratText() in Canvas.java. Canvas.java is in:

/frameworks/base/graphics/java/android/graphics

That is for the framework. Webkit has to be done separately. Also we have not been told if Harfbuzz-ng will be back ported to 2.3 (not that it matters, since Harfbuzz-ng doesn't support indic anyway). Once I am done with Burmese, I can work on Hindi and Punjabi.

I was also searching why p500 [2.2]was not showing hindi fonts in web pages  and contact names. But in  English hindi  dictionaarry hindi fonts were displayed.

I was also searching why p500 [2.2]was not showing hindi fonts in web pages  and contact names. But in  English hindi  dictionaarry hindi fonts were displayed.

@ravi

I think it is better to start a group for this. What you are saying is true. Even android 2.4 does support complex text existing users can not use it without an OS update. In case like x10 that won't happen. So I also think it is better to start a group to discuss what we have found and work as a team.

Mr. Google, if Samsung can provide Hindi support in their Galaxy series phones, why can't you do this for Android?

Please provide Hindi support ASAP.

Yes, I am looking for Google to address this issue.
It would be better if Google could work out an independent Hindi keyboard which could be installed on any version of Android. similar to http://www.eyron.com/'s keyboard for Hindi.

I m also unable to watch hindi font on p500 optimus. pls help.

I am just a user with verylittle knowledge of how fonts are displayed, if a
small application can show hindi fonts then i dont know why they are not
being displayed in contacts and native android browser. Android devs need to
answer why hindi support not given!!!  I hope indians at google are
listening

Once v hav a good android market everything wuld becum stable!

Very Nice initiatives @Dhani and @Ravi, I love that spirit.
Although I am just an application developer as of now, I would love to help in any way possible.
Keep it up, guys!

@Shekh
Thanks a lot for your appreciation! (BTW my name is Dhanika Perera)
I've started working on extending the language support of SETT Browser to support other Indic scripts with the help of @Sandeep. First I'll work on Hindi as it is the widely used one.
Will let you all know once I released the Hindi rendering supported SETT Browser.
Regards from Sri Lanka! :)

Yes, I would request Google to address this issue ASAP.
It would be better if Google provides both the Inscript and Phonetic Hindi keyboards which could be installed on any version of Android.

Please fix this issue...

Please fix all Hindi/Indian language related issues. Guys, which world you are living in?

ravikant

Really full of pain! pl fix the issue!
Ravikant jee is right not only for Hindi but for all Indian language!

rajesh

If sony ericsson can do that in their latest update to xperia x10! why not google???
In the latest update to xperia versions, SE included support for devanagiri font rendering!!! I can see hindi fonts in all applications and it is proper!
and my xperia is running on android 2.1!

shame on google!!!

The need is much! People are puttng so many comments from mobile and they are unable to write comments! No input! Disgusting!

When the wait will be over! Becoming a perennial question! Please fix the issue asap!

please provide hindi support

U know what no one cares what India wants. Better we should develop the apps ourselves..

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I am using SAMSUNG GALAXY 5
and it has Android 2.1 and Hindi Font Preinstalled

BUT WHEN I UPDATE IT TO ANDROID 2.2
HINDI FONT DELETED

i rooted it and download DroidHindi.ttf
http://www.mediafire.com/?s6mehiwlw7zp7r7

and put DroidHindi.ttf as DroidSansFallback.ttf into /system/fonts/

Restarted it !!!

and it works

Well, anyone can root their phones and install it that way, but I suppose we're looking for a solution from Google so that when we create apps using hindi/other languages, which will be running on thousands of phones, not just rooted ones, then the users can use them well.

I don't find it a solution.

Hindi (devnagari) support will be highly appreciated. I am unable to browse many hindi websites currently and so are millions of users.

i have galaxy s preinstalled android 2.1... no hindi support, then upgraded to android 2.2 through kies.... was able to see hindi fonts in web browser like navbharattimes.com, webdunia.com, google news... etc.... but with the froyo (2.2) update the phone was laggy and unstable... so chose custom ROMs, tried Darky's and Doc Roms... but no support for hindi fonts!!! in google news all except indian languages are displayed!!!! Hope google/samsung/smart people like Pratulkkalia, Dhanika Ravi will succeed in displaying indian languages, Smart people Wish you all the best!!!

how to replace the font which is in system folder. myfiles does not show system files? File expert shows but does not replace? dual file and ghost file managers do not show system folders?? help!

@Comment 60 by susheeln...@gmail.com, Mar 10, 2011
If you know how to use adb, here is how you replace the font (dont forget to take backup of existing font - mentioned below):

----> to copy into phone/device
adb remount
adb push DroidSansFallback.ttf /system/fonts/

before doing this, it's better you take backup of existing font in the system folder which you can do by issuing pull instead of push as following:

----> to copy from phone/device (backup)
adb pull /system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf

Required Hindi Support for SMS as well.

Android can read hindi webpage click here http://android-bucket.blogspot.com/2011/04/android-can-read-hindi-font.html

Dear Google,
I had an x10i with 2.1 eclair, installed on it. It used to display Hindi fonts beautifully. but now i am using galaxy s (2.2 Froyo) and it does not display hindi fonts. I dont wish to root the phone..
We Indians are 1.2 billion. 16% of world population.. and still hindi is not supported. thats shame. Even the apple which does not have their office in India yet gives the hindi support.
Please add this to my wishlist * 1.2 billion times :)

I bought samsung galaxy I5003 few days back and it was rendering hindi perfactly. Few days back i upgraded it to froyo GT I5000 as i wasnt able to see hindi fonts so I replaced DroidSansFallback.ttf  with DroidHindi.ttf (/system/fonts  folder ) downloaded from here itself. Now I am able to see hindi fonts but they are not rendered properly as earlier (I mean some problem with मात्रा, विशर्ग, हलन्त). As i dont have the original 2.1 eclair firmware i cant get the original ttf file which came with samsung . If someone is having then plz provide that ttf file. I am sure it will solve my problem.

Now Android is Hindi enabled. Read this post.
http://sahibaat.blogspot.com/2011/05/blog-post.html

@kajal,
Android is not Hindi enabled. The link you gave just shows that a particular variant of Sony Ericsson phone can display Hindi correctly. We already know that, and we know that the Samsung Galaxy 5 and Galaxy 3 phones sold in India can display Hindi fonts. We want Official support, not vendor fragmentations.

@avinash
I am afraid it is not the ttf file, but the Firmware. You will need the correct firmware that can display Hindi. I don't know where that is available.

Yes, many languages like Hindi, Arabic, Tamil aren't available officially
from Android, despite of being in the list of supported languages.

Some devices like Samsung Galaxy 3 has hindi as a language, its 2.2 update
supports Arabic too.
But this is something we can't rely on.
Consider your hindi application running on the devices that don't support
hindi!

It's extremely unfortunate and disgusting that Android has ignored Hindi compatibility for Gingerbread 2.3.3 .... how can they be ignorant about the fact that every Sixth person in the world is an Indian and directly being affeceted by the Indic language portability in the morden mobiles or electronic gadgets! After long wait of at least seven months, I purchaged a Samsung Galaxy S2 on 5th June 2011. Its a Gingerbread OS 2.3.3 phone. But I got shocked to know that it doesn't have Devnagri compatibility. I tag it a slap on the face of Indians specially those Hindustanies who are working with Google or Android or even Samsung! Shame-Shame!
Indian languages are not in the list but there are many others are there which is hardly a language of few million people! Clearly a pathetic approach has been adopted against 121 billion people!
Only remady to this issue would be the IMMEDIATE upgradation of the OS 2.3.3...!
MAY THE GOOD SENSE PREVAIL..!

It's extremely unfortunate and disgusting that Android has ignored Hindi compatibility for Gingerbread 2.3.3 .... how can they be ignorant about the fact that every Sixth person in the world is an Indian and directly being affeceted by the Indic language portability in the morden mobiles or electronic gadgets! After long wait of at least seven months, I purchaged a Samsung Galaxy S2 on 5th June 2011. Its a Gingerbread OS 2.3.3 phone. But I got shocked to know that it doesn't have Devnagri compatibility. I tag it a slap on the face of Indians specially those Hindustanies who are working with Google or Android or even Samsung! Shame-Shame!
Indian languages are not in the list but there are many others are there which is hardly a language of few million people! Clearly a pathetic approach has been adopted against 121 billion people!
Only remady to this issue would be the IMMEDIATE upgradation of the OS 2.3.3...!
MAY THE GOOD SENSE PREVAIL..!

It's extremely unfortunate and disgusting that Android has ignored Hindi compatibility for Gingerbread 2.3.3 .... how can they be ignorant about the fact that every Sixth person in the world is an Indian and directly being affeceted by the Indic language portability in the morden mobiles or electronic gadgets! After long wait of at least seven months, I purchaged a Samsung Galaxy S2 on 5th June 2011. Its a Gingerbread OS 2.3.3 phone. But I got shocked to know that it doesn't have Devnagri compatibility. I tag it a slap on the face of Indians specially those Hindustanies who are working with Google or Android or even Samsung! Shame-Shame!
Indian languages are not in the list but there are many others are there which is hardly a language of few million people! Clearly a pathetic approach has been adopted against 121 billion people!
Only remady to this issue would be the IMMEDIATE upgradation of the OS 2.3.3...!
MAY THE GOOD SENSE PREVAIL..!

Android at the heart is Linux. But it is striped down Linux. Hence the packages that Linux has for rendering Hindi and other complex scripts is not present in Android. They can include Pango, which on Linux is being phased out in favor of Harfbuzz. But Pango is too heavy for a Mobile OS. Hence they want to include Harfbuzz (and has done so on Honeycomb). But Harfbuzz is still for from being complete, partly because the person maintaining Harfbuzz was working for RedHat. He is now working for Google (more than a year already). Google now more or less 'owns' the technology that renders complex scripts, they were just sitting on it doing nothing. Doing nothing as Symbian and Meego were still a threat which could benefit from the work of HarfBuzz. Hence Google just was not pushing Harfbuzz enough in fear that Nokia which also uses Harfbuzz will gain from it! The Ironies of the Open Source world. But this factor should not longer be a threat as Nokia has abandoned Symbian. So we can be sure that we will see something soon. But if you are on Gingerbread, just forget it. It will never come as minor updates just don't work that way. Even if it did, your Handset Vendor will not bake a new firmware for every minor update from Google.

@Ravi
Thats a very useful update. Thanks.

hindi fonts:- thanks to opera for his solution in opera mini, only in operaq mini hindi fonts are properly rendered. Go to opera:config last option, tick yes to complex scripts and then shows hindi fonts properly.

it's OK to see hindi fonts in opera but what about input in hindi.
if i want to search योग or ताजमहल in Hindi, how i can do it.
And when android is Unicode based system why Hindi rendering is not there.
we do not want patchwork. we want hasslefree Hindi on android.

@Comment 75 by susheeln...@gmail.com

the solution is not through font rendering.
it shows the hindi or any complex scripy fonts in bitmap fonts........i.e. in image form.

you can check it !

Opera displays hindi pretty well.this doesn't help for those translation apps. I stumbled on this font apk for my samsung galaxy that displays hindi font pretty well except conjunct letters .

Need Hindi Support

I am using HTC desire HD
Looking for same

I am using HTC desire s and it doesn't support Hindi font.
Need update to support Hindi font.

We would luv to have Hindi Lang.

love to see this in my S2 and XCD35..

i would love to have hindi and other indian language.

यदि एच.टी.सी वाला अभी भी जाग नहीं रहा है, तो राज ठाकरे स्टाइल से जगाएं क्या? मुंबई में उसका ऑफ़िस ही फ़ोड देना चाहिए. दो चार कांच फ़ूटेगी तो लाईन पर आएगा ससुरा.
ऊपर लिखी हुई सभी टिप्पणियां पढने के बाद केवल निराशा के चलते मुझे यह कहना पड रहा है. स्मार्ट फ़ोन्स में हिन्दी इनपुट देने के लिए मैंने नोकिया के साथ भी काफ़ी अनुवर्ती प्रयास किया, लेकिन वे सभी कंपनियां यदि भारतीय ग्राहक का मत दुर्लक्षणीय ही मानती हैं तो और क्या किया जाए?

कौन्तेय मैं आपसे सहमत हूँ। यह विदेशी कम्पनियाँ हम भारतीय ग्राहकों की अवहेलना करने से घबराती नहीं हैं क्योंकि हम कुछ कहते ही नहीं और अपनी राय जताते ही नहीं। जब हम ही अपनी मातृ भाषा हिंदी को महत्व नहीं देते तो फिर यह गोरे क्यों देंगे।

बात बिलकुल सही कही तुम लोगो ने. जब तक हम सब मिलकर इन लोगो के ऊपर दबाव नहीं
डालेंगे कुछ ज्यादा नहीं होगा. अपने facebook और गूगल+ में लोगो को उकसाना
जरूरी हैं ताकि लोग यहाँ आकर वोते करे और इस बात पर लोगो ध्यान लाये.

मित्रों,
मैंने TRAI वेबसाइट पर जा कर अपनी शिकायत दी है. आप भी अपनी तरफ़ से दर्ज करें यह बिनति है. मुझे लगता है कि जहां मैंने ये पोस्ट दिया है वह शायद जालघर के बारे में टिप्पणियां देने की जगह भी हो सकती है. लेकिन यदि उन्हें ५०० समान विषय की शिकायतें मिलेंगी तो उन्हें उसपर विचार तो करना ही होगा.
 
http://www.trai.gov.in/Feedback.asp 
"All the mobile phone mfrs in India do not offer Indian languages on their handsets. While the 'cheaper' phones can deliver Indic input & reading, why the so-called 'smart phones' should not?
Every internet forum is filled with these complaints, but the phone mfrs refuse to take notice.
I think its time TRAI steps in & tell all the phone makers wanting to do business in India to offer Indic scripts on all their phones or simply get out!
Its time India stands for herself."

TRAI का लिंक सीधे नहीं चलता. कृपया होम पर जाकर दायीं ओर feedback की और जाए

Guys,

This forum is not maintained by phone manufacturers. It for the peolp who develop the android os. And be nice, cause ur getting something for free from these guys. You can request for a new feature. U have no rights to demand them. And fyi kaunteya ur trai has no control here and stop acting smart.

If u really want ro get this moving try contributing to the android project. If ur a developer help on some of the bugs or if ur not u can help by testing neq releases. Else just shut ur mouth.

Android 3.2 is out and still all I see is those damn square boxes. Indians got snubbed again.

@Kaunteya
Not sure if TRAI has any control to dictate manufacturing requirements but that doesn't mean it cannot. Its a good idea. I'll write a general complaint to TRAI and Ministry of Communications & Information Technology.

@Ramkumar1985
Whoa... demanding someone to be nice and shut up is very nice of you. Kaunteya or for that matter everyone has Free Speech. Its not your prerogative to tell him what to do. We are all here for our love for Hindi language and we are all free to do whatever we deem fit, legally, to get what we want. Please be civil.

Secondly, you are ignorant if you think Android OS is free. Have you heard of patent royalty fees? If not, search the term.

Thirdly, similar thread on Arabic language had over 5000 votes within couple of months of its creation in 2010 and Arabic language support was added by next release. That's the power of "demanding". Compared to original defect on Hindi that was created way back in 2008 and was prematurely closed by Android team. And the issue is still lingering on.

Take it easy.

@prateeka
That is very much true. I agree with everything you hav said. Even i have an interest to see hindi fonts in my phone and thats y i am here and subscribed to this issue. its just the way he asked. You can request. You cannot order. Or he can ask his friends to vote for this issue so it gets more priority. Just a more than a hundred votes for this issue compared to the 5000 for arabic. That says it all.

@Ramkumar1985
If google didnt want anyone to demand, they wont add that feature in the
system. Even people raising their voice here in the group is doing
something. Lot of them not doing anything and if some people are here,
discouraging others is not the right thing to do.

I have also written to TRAI and they can certainly put minimum requirements
in place for devices to be sold in India irrespective of where it is
manufactured.

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Please provide Hindi (Indic) Language support in Android. There are thousands of Android developer from India, still no one looking into this issue in Google. If google has any issue, please discuss it in any forum, we are ready to help.

Please provide hindi support in Android, this is the only barrier for an Apple user like me to move towards Android.

I m using samsung galaxy s,2.3 version which is not supporting hindi font,very sad.it must b cleared !

@jitu so true!
@s..biois: unfortunately there are couple of companies like htc which are adamant and not providing support to indic fonts. In SonyEricsson and Samsung devices we can view hindi/marathi script. This is the reason we want android to support at least our national language by default.
@chanchal: SGS 2.3 latest version i.e. ddjv9 supports hindi font.

GOOD

Please provide hindi support in Android.

Where is the Hindi support for Android? When it will become available?

Anshu
www.ilearnhindi.com 

गूगल को Android हैंडसेट्स के लिए देवनागरी समर्थन उपलब्ध करवाना चाहिए।

i hope those who are commenting are also encouraging people to vote by
pressing the 'star' button. Comments are welcome but we need click on the
start as a mark of vote.

please please star this issue. There have been similar issues in the past too related to Indic fonts. I don't know why Google can support Indian script on their websites but Android system cannot support Indic fonts and scripts. This seems a very easy problem to solve for the android team. I hope they do listen to the request of all the concerned voters here related to this issue. I hope atleast one Google correspondent replies to this post officially. Otherwise it is cruel to keep discussing this issue without any support or word from the authorities governing android. Urge your fellow Indians to vote for this issue and Star it. Thats the only way we'll be able to make our voices heard on Google.

This issue is currently #148 on the list of android defects on this forum based on 152 votes. Lets try to take this to top 100 by voting it up more and more. Each google user just has one vote so please vote this issue up.

It is high time to support Hindi or loose customers. ..

मैंने आर्कोस टेबलेट खरीदी लेकिन देवनागरी न होने के कारण एकदम अनुपयोगी रही  एन्ड्राइड में देवनागरी नहीं है इसलिये मेरे लिये तो यह एकदम बेकार है.

देवनागरी प्रयोगकर्ताओं का बाजार बहुत बड़ा है. इसकी उपेक्षा से 'जनता' को असुविधा होगी और गूगल को व्यापारिक हानि.

-- अनुनाद सिंह, इदौर

purchased samsung galaxy pro but not able to write in hindi ;-(

are bhaai loga hindi ko to support karo.


Facing so much problems while using samsung galaxy S with out HINDI font

इतनी समस्याओं का सामना करना पड़ रहा है और गूगल को व्यापारिक हानि भी हो रही है

भारत के बाजार में हिंदी तथा अन्य भारतीय भाषाओं में हर कंपनी को अपने उत्पाद जारी करने चाहिए। गुगल को भी यह काम करना होगा।

For the sake of Indian market every company working in India need to give support in Hindi and other Indian languages and I hope Google will give attention to Hindi.

इतनी समस्याओं का सामना करना पड़ रहा है और गूगल को व्यापारिक हानि भी हो रही है

Please include Hindi

इतनी समस्याओं का सामना करना पड़ रहा है और गूगल को व्यापारिक हानि भी हो रही है

Please include Hindi

I renamed DroidSansHindi.ttf as DroidSansFallback.ttf & replaced the actual fall back font on system/fonts. That gave me a mangal like devanagari font. OK, but not so goodlooking. But that took away Chinese text to square boxes. I'm in China & need the Chinese text also on mobile.
So I replaced the new fall back font with Arial Unicode MS renamed as DroidSansFallback.ttf (22 mb!). This gave me a beautiful authentic devanagari font & also display of Chinese characters. Working fine on my HTC Desire HD / A9191. Only 2 problems displaying Hindi.
1. half characters rendered as full with broken leg (i dunno how to say this in English) ie: प्रमोद is seen as प्‌रमोद. समस्या as समस्‌या.
2. ऱ्हस्व ‘ई’कार अक्षर के बाद पड रहा है - जो कि अक्षर से पहले होना चाहिए. दीर्घ ‘ई’कार में दिक्कत नहीं क्यों कि वह बाद में ही आता है.
But this rendering ability has to be introduced from whom? Android or HTC?
Could anybody pls suggest any s/ware which can do this?

यहां हो रही चर्चा के आधार पर एक निष्कर्ष निकलता है कि देवनागरी फ़ाँट स्थापित करने पर भी एच्‌टीसी के फ़र्मवेअर में जब तक सुधार नहीं आ जाता तब तक देवनागरी की दृश्यमानता सही रूप से होगी नहीं. देवनागरी लिख पाने के लिए भी फ़ोन निर्माता की पहल अवश्यमेव है. इसी लिए मेरे अँड्रोइड २.३ संस्करण के ‘एच टी सी डिझायर एच डी’ हँडसेट पर हिन्दी / मराठी की सुविधा न पाने पर मैंने एच्‌टीसी के साथ पत्रव्यवहार शुरू किया है। अभी तक का संभाषण मेरे ब्लॉग पर दिया हुआ है।
http://kaunteya.mywebdunia.com/2011/08/09/htc_desire_hd_android_2_3_devanagari_support.html 
इसके बाद का नवीकरण तथा फ़ल इसी चिट्ठे पर मिलता रहेगा। आप भी यदि एच्‌टीसी ग्राहक हैं तो अपनी ओर से एच्‌टीसी को लिख सकते हैं। http://www.htc.com/in/CS_Mail.aspx 

On GAlaxy3 with eclair 2.1 it was working now after the second upgrade to froyo 2.2 (DDJP4) it doesnt work and was not working even in the first froyo 2.2 upgrade.

अगर अन्द्रोइड हिंदी का समर्थन नहीं करता है तो क्यूँ लें अन्द्रोइड फ़ोन जबकि सिम्बियन, माइक्रोसोफ्ट, आइफोन और दूसरे ऑपरेटिंग सिस्टम हिंदी को सप्पोर्ट करते है. तो क्यों ना अन्द्रोइड का वहिष्कार करें जब तक वो हिंदी को सप्पोर्ट नहीं करता.

i used galaxy sl and it dosenot support hindi webpages than i changed to galaxy s2
and shoked to know that it is also not supportin hindi fonts.we shold not use android phone.please dont use android if u r an indian

एचटीसी एंड्रोइड मोबाइल पर भारतीय अक्षर ठीक से न दिखने की समस्या को लेकर HTC India के साथ हुआ मेरा संभाषण नीचे दिया है। उससे एक बात तो साफ़ है कि एचटीसी (भारत) की ओर से यह समस्या सुलझाने के बारे में कोई भी पहल की अपेक्षा करना विफ़ल है। इसी विषय पर मैं अभी एचटीसी (हांगकांग) के साथ पत्र व्यवहार शुरू करूंगा जहां से मैंने यह फ़ोन खरीदा है। उनकी तरफ़ से फ़िर से किस तरीके का फ़ुटबाल खेला जाता है देखते हैं ...
http://kaunteya.mywebdunia.com/2011/08/18/htc_desire_hd_android_2_3_devanagari_script.html 

८ अगस्त की मेरी टिप्पणी फ़िरसे एक बार प्रतिमा के साथ दे रहा हूं. किसी के इसमें और सुधार लाने के लिए कुछ जानकारी हो तो कृपया बताइए.
I renamed DroidSansHindi.ttf as DroidSansFallback.ttf & replaced the actual fall back font on system/fonts. That gave me a mangal like devanagari font. OK, but not so goodlooking. But that took away Chinese text to square boxes. I'm in China & need the Chinese text also on mobile.
So I replaced the new fall back font with Arial Unicode MS renamed as DroidSansFallback.ttf (22 mb!). This gave me a beautiful authentic devanagari font & also display of Chinese characters. Working fine on my HTC Desire HD / A9191. Only 2 problems displaying Hindi.
1. half characters rendered as full with broken leg (i dunno how to say this in English) ie: प्रमोद is seen as प्‌रमोद. समस्या as समस्‌या.
2. ऱ्हस्व ‘ई’कार अक्षर के बाद पड रहा है - जो कि अक्षर से पहले होना चाहिए. दीर्घ ‘ई’कार में दिक्कत नहीं क्यों कि वह बाद में ही आता है.
But this rendering ability has to be introduced from whom? Android or HTC?
Could anybody pls suggest any s/ware which can do this?

@kaunteya...@gmail.com,
कौन्तेय जी सारी समस्या ही तो यही है। बात केवल हिन्दी फॉण्ट की ही नहीं है, देवनागरी को सही रुप से प्रदर्शित करने के लिये फॉण्ट के अलावा CTL (Complex Text Layout) इंजन भी चाहिये होता है जो कि देवनागरी टैक्स्ट को रैण्डर कर सही रुप में स्क्रीन पर प्रदर्शित करता है। इसके अभाव में आधे अक्षर, इ की मात्रा (ि) तथा रेफ (वर्मा के ऊपर लगने वाला रकार) आदि जैसे बहुत से वर्ण सही प्रदर्शित नहीं होते।

हिन्दी फॉण्ट तो फोन रुट करके कोई  भी डाल सकता है। ऍण्ड्रॉइड के स्क्रिप्ट रैण्डरिंग इंजन में देवनागरी का समर्थन न होना ही असली समस्या है।

guys can anyone tel me..what should i do to install marathi or hindi fonts in my I-9003

how to replace the font because while i do it through astro file manager it says no permissions

Why don't you use SETT Hindi Browser to read Hindi websites?
https://market.android.com/details?id=lk.bhasha.sett.hindi

It's an exclusive browser for Hindi & it displays Hindi unicode very well. You don't need to root the device or install fonts. Just install this browser.

गूगल को Android हैंडसेट्स के लिए देवनागरी समर्थन उपलब्ध करवाना चाहिए,हर जगह हिन्दी भारत की शान है ओर गूगल को ये समझना होगा ..................................

हिन्दी नहीं तो कुछ भी नहीं ....................................

ya hindi is must

हिंदी बोलने लिखने और समझनेवाले सबसे ज्यादा है फिर  भी उपलब्ध नहीं है एंड्रोएड मैं

I think issues 19691, 19466, 12420, 9248, 4153, 3393, 3029 and 1618 should all be merged together - why should there be so many open issues for basically the same problem/feature? UNITED WE CAN PRESSURISE GOOGLE TO RESPOND! Can some one tell me how to merge these issues together? Or can only GOOGLE do it?
Once these issues are merged together, count the number of stars and then you'll know why I'm suggesting this!

Also merge 20198

एंड्रॉइड हिंदी कंप्यूटिंग करने वाले एक बड़े हि्स्से को क्यों खुश नहीं करना चाहता। अगर हिंदी समर्थन मिल जाए तो निश्चित रूप से इसका इस्तेमाल और बढ़ेगा हिंदुस्तान में।

This is an open fact that HINDI is spoken by largest number of people on this earth after Chinese. Is Android not aware of this fact. It is strange that in today's most competitive market Android is not desirous of tapping the HINDI market. If Android keeps on ignoring HINDI any more people will start boycotting android. There are alternatives available to Android. So take it as a warning.

By not giving support for Hindi in Android..is google going to give way to MS Windows mobile (when they will make it a freeware in the near future) and tap on to whole of India.

We Indians don't respect ourselves how can google?

Google, plz let us be your fan forever.

Need Hindi font for Galaxy S2....please help!!!

Hindi font is required for Sharp Galapagos 03SH Android phone. Hope Android team will listen and come up with a solution soon.

if you developing your own application means,just download DroidHindi.ttf file from internet and put that in assest/font folder.AtLast set Typeface location.is enough.

अब वहाँ Android बाजार में एक अनन्य हिंदी ब्राउज़र है.
https://market.android.com/details?id=lk.bhasha.sett.hindi

यह मुफ़्त है और हिंदी में अच्छी तरह से renders. कोई फ़ॉन्ट स्थापित करने की जरूरत है. यह ब्राउज़र के भीतर हिंदी renders, तो कोई अतिरिक्त लागत OperaMini में पसंद है.

इस app की कोशिश करने के लिए बेहतर है.

@Everyone
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is out. So whats the verdict? Has anyone tested if SDK or emulator supports Devnagri (Hindi, etc.) or do we still see those dreaded boxes ☐?

@dhan...@bhasha.lk, Oct 13
Next time when you post on a serious complaint thread to unceremoniously plug your app, make sure you at least fix the considerable amount of grammatical mistakes in your Hindi writings, especially the incorrect use of full stop '.' instead of poorn-viraam '।'. Such ignorance of language will definitely repulse allot of us Hindi lovers and will not gain you any customers. Anyways, good luck with your browser. "jo hindi mein achhi tarah se renders। koi font sthapit karne ki jarurat hai।" Seriously?!

Ok guys if this is of any releif
"
Indic fonts (Devanagari, Bengali and Tamil) support in WebView and stock browser. No need to download other browsers just to view Hindi webpages.
"
Source: http://androidos.in/2011/10/android-4-0-features-that-google-missed-to-mention-at-launch-event/

Only way to validate this is try to render kavitakosh or some other hindi website on the emulator. Will try it on my machine and post back results. I am really excited. ping you guys in 5 hrs. If it works then I will consider it a real "Happy Dhanteras" and "Happy Deepawali"

More exciting is this bit from Android API http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/Layout.html#isRtlCharAt(int) 

This can help in building a a rendering engine (much like SETT) to all OEMs (Samsung, HTC, LG, etc) or Google themselves or us developers.

Sorry for 3rd post in almost as many minutes.. but yes this is important too.

WebVIew has indic support now.

"
Support for Indic fonts (Devanagari, Bengali, and Tamil, including the complex character support needed for combining glyphs) in WebView and the built-in Browser
"
Source: http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0.html

But.... what about other components? its a little difficult to build apps around WebView only. I would like to see all interface element (menus, buttons, textboxes and keyboard in hindi).

Sad news may be not. depends on way you look at it. I tried to create an avd on android SDK 4.0 (w/ and w/o google api 14) and result is disappointing. I dont see any boxes but i don't see any test. Changed font encoding to UTF-8 also. Still no test. I think hindi fonts might be missing. Will try to test and post back after pushing fonts into avd.

We in Nepal also would like Devanagari fonts enabled on Android... currently I am using HTC Desire (Android Froyo 2.2)

NEED HINDI SUPPORT!!!!

Dont want to do the routing and void my warranty. Google, please release an update with the base font including ALL UNICODE GLYPHS!

ASAP

No support for Devnagari fonts on HTC Chacha Gingerbread 2.3.3

Re comment 73 - Pango works fine on Linux phones - all complex scripts render properly on my Nokia N900. I can see no good reason why Google crippled Android this way.

Complex script support really needs to be in the OS itself - not just in a browser or special applications - or added on to some phones by some manufacturers.

Here is an example of Tibetan on Android 4.0 - the top line shows how the text *should* look. The bottom line shows how it actually renders with a Unicode compatible Tibetan script font installed. STILL NOT WORKING.

 

The Govt. of India should immediately make it a mandatory and *requirement* that all phones imported into India, or assembled/ manufactured in India should be able to properly display text in all the regional languages of India.  

If there was a law like this we would see proper complex script support in phones almost overnight. It is not that it is difficult to do.

It's been that long that Hindi font is not supported in Android !!! and Google has been so arrogant about it that have done nothing about it. Can't believe

Why these guys are selling phones in India that doesn't support our Language !!

I am a big fan of Google. But now, Shame on google... you just don't want to support languages that are spoken by 1/6th percent of world's population. Even your rivals Apple and facebook are supporting it very nicely. I don't think it is that hard to do. :-(

Please start posting on the following link for this issue.
We are divided and have opened up so many threads for the same issue. If we all get together and support one single "Issue" we will have more pressure.
Please start posting all your comments and posts on the link given below.

I am not doing this to favor one group over other it just happened that the following has got maximum no of stars as compared to others

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1618

Google is best in innovating and i hope that they will definitely come out with a solution in ICS 4.0

Please carry out this activity of adding support to Devanagari script on priority for android phones. At least for new OS

Why should a phone be called as 'smartphone' when it can't do a basic task? I have symbian s60v3 base Nokia E63 and it renders devanagari in an absolutely perfect way. Android may be smart, but not Google India nor companies selling smartphones in Indian Market. Open OS and such restrictions? I am fortunate that I found this before buying an Android. Guys, please mention your phone if it supports devanagari with proper rendering so that people will be educated about smartphones with devanagari support.

Hi, GOOD NEWS.

 Tested in 4.0.3 version, and finally Google supporting Hindi, Tamil and Bengali languages.(Tested on Nexus-s )

Thanks Google and Team.

Thanks Google for doing this!

-Paras
http://krazzytech.com

for more Indian language support.
check this link http://androidandsandu.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-to-add-indian-languages-to-android.html

संगठन में शक्ती है! United we stand! HTC ने एक भारतीय मोडेल पर हिन्दी व तमिल समर्थन देने का अभी वादा किया है. जल्दी ही अन्य मोडेल्स तथा अन्य भाषाओं को भी जोडा जाएगा. भारतीय भाषाप्रेमियों ने बडी तादात में इस विषय पर जोर दिया. इंटरनेट पर एक सशक्त आंदोलन चलाया उसका ही यह परिणाम है.
उन सभी प्रयासकों को, मोबाइल पर भारतीय भाषाओं का आग्रहपूर्वक उपयोग करने वालों को तथा HTC कंपनी को इस महत्वपूर्ण निर्णय के लिए हार्दिक बधाई तथा नए वर्ष की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं.
शुभम्‌ भवतु -
http://technoholik.com/news/mobile/smartphone/htc-explorer-will-offer-hindi-and-tamil-language-support/2737