Help:Multilingual support for Android
Android devices, you're trying to view other alphabets on Android, you may find that you've taken a significant step back.
A Galaxy Tab p1000, sold for the European marker has built in support for inputting a number of European languages in the Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Greek alphabets, and Korean, and for reading, but not imputing Thai,
Check
This will let you check, to see what scripts are installed properly on your computer
Alphabets
Latin: If you're reading this, you already have Latin installed on your device.
Script | Correct rendering | Your computer |
---|---|---|
Cyrillic | ![]() |
Кирилица |
Greek | ![]() |
Ελληνικό |
Georgian | ![]() |
ქართული |
Armenian | ![]() |
Հայերեն |
Arabic | ![]() |
أبجدية عربية |
Hebrew | ![]() |
אלפבית עברי |
Other
Script | Correct rendering | Your computer |
---|---|---|
Ethiopic | ![]() |
ግዕዝ ፊደል |
Thaana | ![]() |
ތާނަ އަލިފުބާގެ ތަރުތީބު |
Indic
Script | ||
---|---|---|
Correct rendering | Your computer | |
Devanagari | ![]() |
क + ि → कि |
Tamil | ![]() |
க + ே → கே |
Gujarati | ![]() |
ક + િ → કિ |
Gurmukhi | ![]() |
ਕ + ਿ → ਕਿ |
Kannada | ![]() |
ಕ + ಿ → ಕಿ |
Telugu | ![]() |
య + ీ → యీ |
Bengali, Assamese |
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ক + ি → কি |
Malayalam | ![]() |
ക + െ → കെ |
Tibetan | ![]() |
ར + ྐ + ྱ → རྐྱ |
Sinhala | ![]() |
ඵ + ේ → ඵේ |
Oriya | ![]() |
କ + େ → କେ |
Thai | ![]() |
ฐ + ู → ฐู |
Lao | ລ + າ + ວ → ລາວ | |
Khmer | ![]() |
ម + ្ + ស + ៅ → ម្សៅ |
Burmese | ![]() |
ဃ + ြ → ဃြ |
East Asian
Script | Correct rendering | Your computer |
---|---|---|
Traditional Chinese | ![]() |
人人生來自由, |
Simplified Chinese | ![]() |
人人生来自由, |
Japanese | ![]() |
すべての人間は、生まれながらにして自由であり、 |
Korean | ![]() |
모든 인간은 태어날 때부터 |
Keyboards
If you plan to use multiple languages in Android, or to edit articles on Wikipedia on foreign languages that require scripts, chances are you will need to install a new keyboard, that can easily switch between settings without forcing you to return to settings. Fortunately, there are several free keyboards available for Android which will allow you to do this.
- AnySoft Keyboard by Amidos
- Go Keyboard by Go Dev Team
- MultiLing Keyboard by Hanso
- MultiLingual Keyboard by Amidos
There are also several other free multilingual keyboards which come with experimental input methods:
- Adaptxt Beta by KeyPoint Technologies
- Hacker's Keyboard by Klaus Weidner
- Slide IT Soft Keyboard by Dasur Ltd. (Lite version)
- TouchPal Keyboard Tablet by CooTek