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Thread: Need help regarding RM-596 Symbian^3 Keyboard and Font - Language support for Nokia N8

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    Need help regarding RM-596 Symbian^3 Keyboard and Font - Language support for Nokia N8

    In you are residing in North America; you undoubtedly get Latin Fonts without backing for CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean), Arabic, Hindi, and Hebrew etc. then again the Keyboard is restrained to English, French, Spanish, conceivably Italian. So now, the iPhone and the Android have turned out. It has a Unicode font set that will showcase just about each and every element of any Latin-based or unfamiliar non-Latin based language. Your iPhone/Android can examine online documents, peruse quick messages in these languages BUT on a Nokia Device you are stayed. In the event that you purchased a phone in the US you most without a doubt see 'squares' when heading off to an outside languages web page or when you appropriate a note in a remote language outside your 'pre-predetermined' language pack. I require accommodate in my Nokia N8 RM-596 Symbian^3 Keyboard and Font.

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    Re: Need help regarding RM-596 Symbian^3 Keyboard and Font - Language support for Nokia N8

    With the iPhone/Android, you would be able to. Obviously, you could probably make your particular Unicode font and put it in E:\ or F:\ to override the Nokia pre-installed constrained font set and after that trust that there is a 3rd Party FEP (IME) that will override the Nokia (Virtual) Keyboard that will go with your gadget so you might enter in a language that is not English. In short, this is a PAIN when Nokia tries not to discharge a thoroughly adaptable firmware that is legitimately UNIVERSAL in nature that goes with the WORLD and make the phone a WORLD PHONE! I am, we are, every last trace of us are burnt out on hacking into our phones, adapting language packs, fonts, FEPs to construct our Nokia Device suit our necessities.

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    Re: Need help regarding RM-596 Symbian^3 Keyboard and Font - Language support for Nokia N8

    Yes, this is positively frustrating me. N8 in fact has no Unicode back, so I cannot peruse any content in anything fixnate than roman letters. Ever, with my N86, I might utilize 3rd gathering software. Anyway now, after S^3 is a decently unique managing system, the old software doesn't work. Consequently, I am unable to perused Chinese elements. My music records don't peruse legitimately, sites don't render truly. Is it accurate to say that it is so far to solicit to have multilingual support?

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    Re: Need help regarding RM-596 Symbian^3 Keyboard and Font - Language support for Nokia N8

    I am a German guy living in China; I speak and compose in 3 special languages with mates, tribe and business confederates. Notwithstanding I should peruse Chinese. It's been a couple years now that I need to experience the other portable for assistance. I am not a hacker, I don't like doing. I actually require a pro device as a phone.

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    Re: Need help regarding RM-596 Symbian^3 Keyboard and Font - Language support for Nokia N8

    Unequivocally put your 'changed font' in E:\Resource\Fonts or F:\Resource\Fonts. The font ought to have the same font name, font tribe as what the S^3 gadget dispatches with. Effortless as in N97 and N97 Mini Font Replacement and more senior Nokia's that tries not to need the 'Font Router' provision, that cannot be installed and utilized in some S60 devices.

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    Re: Need help regarding RM-596 Symbian^3 Keyboard and Font - Language support for Nokia N8

    N85 & N86, you required the Font Router LT. In N97 Mini, you unequivocally reinstate it. Nokia's Font-Series 60 Sans is a Unicode Font, however, the official discharge of the Font in North America, it do not have underpin for CJK, Hindi the extent that my Font Editor can see. Succession 60 Sans underpins Latin-Based Languages incorporating those who have entertaining elements, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic-Based Languages, Hindi, Hebrew and Thai. This was the N97/N97 Mini Symbian font.

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    Re: Need help regarding RM-596 Symbian^3 Keyboard and Font - Language support for Nokia N8

    I am downloading the S^3 SDK now to see what font is in utilize and go on from there. Cheerfully, before I finalize re-making a font that will suit my requirements, Nokia could at present have released a URGENT Software Update that combines an over-compose of the default font furnished in the gadget.

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    Re: Need help regarding RM-596 Symbian^3 Keyboard and Font - Language support for Nokia N8

    When you head off to the Nokia Care Centre and have a different district's language pack flashed into your phone, you might possibly lose your present language pack. In the past, you do. For instance, provided that you exist in the Switzerland, you will have French, English, Italian and German, perhaps a spot of Turkish and Russian on your phone. In any case you require Chinese. You run over to the Care Centre and have your phone flashed to the N8 Chinese Region Firmware. Then, you just wind up with Chinese and English. You lose your capability to do anything for French, Italian, German, Russian and Turkish.

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    Re: Need help regarding RM-596 Symbian^3 Keyboard and Font - Language support for Nokia N8

    By default Nokia utilizes the Series 60 Sans Font Family. The default font s60snr.ttf holds typefaces for Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Thai, and Hindi but tries not to have support for others, such as Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Tibetan, Lao and whatnot. Conceivably Nokia makes a point not to spot a necessity to rival the iPhone which not just has a Unicode Font that can showcase the proposed. And then to boot, the iPhone has different IME's that you are able to utilize to enter elements in a different language.

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    Re: Need help regarding RM-596 Symbian^3 Keyboard and Font - Language support for Nokia N8

    Connect the phone to "Mass Storage Mode", in E:\Resource\Fonts, copy the fonts and afterward reboot. It is greatest to utilize F:\Resource\Fonts first (utilize MicroSD) and test that the boot should be successful with the 'changed font'. So in the event that it tries not to, you are effectively able to evacuate the MicroSD and boot the phone. Just when you know the system will boot decently with the 'adjusted font', then you are able to transfer the font to E:\ for faster system access.

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    Re: Need help regarding RM-596 Symbian^3 Keyboard and Font - Language support for Nokia N8

    I resolved it! The directions are comparable to swapping fonts on S60. For one thing, I acquired Y-Browser and found out the font names on the N8.There are as follows:
    • nosnr60.ttf
    • nssb60.ttf
    • nstsb60.ttf
    • s60ZDIGI.ttf

    With this, we essentially copy over a font onto X:\Resource\Fonts and copy it 4 times, with those 4 offbeat names.

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