Video: Arabic in Windows Phone 8?
One of the reasons WP has been taking its sweet time to get to new markets is poor language support.
Here’s a look at Arabic in Windows Phone 8.
Also notice the presence of the app list but instead of coming from the right, it comes from the left (but that’s due to the right to left nature of Arabic, same for options, icon indicators etc)
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Thanks Adel for the tip!
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- WP8: Right to Left language support demoed (video) | WMPoweruser | July 27, 2012
Good to see more languages support.
What about Hindi, did anyone noticed that in WP8?
This is more crucial than you can imagine.
Middle East luxury phone market (the whole market basically
) is still ripe for disruption.
The competition here is primarily BBM (I’d say BB, but not its crucially the BBM network and to a lesser extent, Samsung (Android).
iPhone has failed to make as big of a mark in Middle East and India compared to BB/Android (though it does enjoy a fair bit of niche support in Middle East and virtually none in India).
The only things that can break BBM network effect are either Whatsapp (which is available for all platforms now) and Gtalk (integrated with every Android). Now there is new contender in Nokia’s favour: Skype. They will need to push Skype messaging to compete with BBM ecosystem
No clue why this got posted as a reply. I could have sworn I hit new post…
FINALLY!
seems you guys didn’t watch the win phone 8 summit until the end. Arabic keyboard and display language will be in wp8. as well as keyboard for Persian/farsi
Jay, do you mean right to left writing? Most common languages write from left to right (start left, and go right), so I guess you mean arabic is from right to left (starts right, goes left).
Think you switched it!
Yes, good catch thanks.
No Prob
!
You probably just have your hands full (Tips+topics+studies+discussions), we get it!!
A lot of people (me included) enjoys your posts!! Keep it up!!!
Hi Jey and Aliqudsi
I have some question:
do you have any screenshot from Persian keyboard in Windows Phone 8 SDK? Persian and Arabic keyboard are very Similar but there are few Differences. Persian keyboard has 4 words more. so keyboards may be different.
I want to know:
what Microsoft has done about this Difference?
How Microsoft has designed the Persian keyboard?
I believe there’s a Farsi keyboard (I think it was mentioned at the end of the dev summit). I dont have the SDk yet as I need Win8 to run it, but i’ll check for you once I download it.
To the above question, yes, Hindi written in Hindi (Devanagiri) can be clearly seen in the above video around 0:22 mark (check the bottom of the phone screen).
Don’t know Urdu (or any other RTL language), but this just looks like a “mirror” implementation of the normal, rather than true dedicated RTL support. Are all other OS’es with RTL language support like this? Just curious.
Here is part two of the demo | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STd8Kxjgd1g
nokia is the 1 who always introduce new technology other’s cheats always nokia rockz….thumbz up
About time! WP looks more desirable now. If only each tile can have a different color instead of just one color theme, then it would be colorful enough to seal the deal!
Hi,
it does support Arabic but no arabic keyboard at all. Meaning, you can read arabic writings but you can not write. The only way to do that is to type in an arabic keyboard, have it copyed and then paste it in the message. Which i see is a hurdle and no worth it. So, thumbs down to WP8 until i can write and make jokes in my own language.
Cheers