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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, Japanese and Chinese.

To install fonts on Android, you may need to root your device.

Check

This will let you check, to see what scripts are installed properly on your computer

Alphabets

Main page: Help:Multilingual support

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

Main page: Help:Multilingual support (Ethiopic)
Script Correct rendering Your computer
Ethiopic ግዕዝ ፊደል
Thaana ތާނަ އަލިފުބާގެ ތަރުތީބު

Indic

Main page: Help:Multilingual support (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 		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

Main page: Help:Multilingual support (East Asian)
Script Correct rendering Your computer
Traditional Chinese

人人生來自由，
在尊嚴和權利上一律平等。
他們有理性和良心，
請以手足關係的精神相對待。

Simplified Chinese

人人生来自由，
在尊严和权利上一律平等。
他们有理性和良心，
请以手足关系的精神相对待。

Japanese

すべての人間は、生まれながらにして自由であり、
かつ、尊厳と権利と について平等である。
人間は、理性と良心とを授けられており、
互いに同胞の精神をもって行動しなければならない。

Korean

모든 인간은 태어날 때부터
자유로우며 그 존엄과 권리에
있어 동등하다. 인간은 천부적으로
이성과 양심을 부여받았으며 서로
형제애의 정신으로 행동하여야 한다.

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.

There are also several other free multilingual keyboards which come with experimental input methods:

Comparison

Comparison of native support and available plugins for each keyboard. Not that not all plugins may work without installing a suitable font.

Alphabet Language AnySoft Go Hanso ML Amidos ML Adaptxt Hacker's Slide IT TouchPal
Latin Azerbaijani --- --- Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native --- --- --- ---
French Plugin Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native --- --- Plugin ---
German Plugin Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native --- --- Plugin ---
Spanish Plugin Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native --- --- Plugin ---
Indonesian --- Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native --- --- Plugin ---
Turkish --- Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native --- --- Plugin ---
Vietnamese --- Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 --- --- --- --- ---
Cyrillic Russian Plugin Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native --- --- Plugin ---
Bulgarian Plugin Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 --- --- --- Plugin ---
Ukrainian Plugin Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native --- --- Plugin ---
Greek Plugin Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 --- --- --- Plugin ---
Georgian Plugin
Requires font		 Native Keyboard
Requires font
Dictionary plugin		 Native Keyboard
Requires font
Dictionary plugin		 Native
Requires font		 --- --- --- ---
Armenian Plugin
Requires font		 --- Native Keyboard
Requires font
Dictionary plugin		 --- --- --- --- ---
Arabic Plugin --- Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 --- --- --- Plugin ---
Farsi Plugin Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native Keyboard
Requires font
Dictionary plugin		 --- --- --- Plugin ---
Urdu --- Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native Keyboard
Requires font
Dictionary plugin		 --- --- --- Plugin ---
Hebrew Hebrew --- Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 --- --- --- --- ---
Yiddish --- --- Native Keyboard
Requires font
Dictionary plugin		 --- --- --- --- ---
Ethiopic Amharic --- --- Native Keyboard
Requires font
Dictionary plugin		 --- --- --- --- ---
Thaana Dhivehi --- --- Native Keyboard
Requires font		 --- --- --- --- ---
Korean --- Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 --- --- --- --- ---
Japanese --- Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 --- --- --- --- ---
Chinese (Simplified) --- Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 --- --- --- --- ---
Chinese (Traditional) --- Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 --- --- --- --- ---
Yi --- --- Native Keyboard
Requires font		 --- --- --- --- ---
Devangari Hindi Plugin
Requires font		 Native Keyboard
Requires font
Dictionary plugin		 Native Keyboard
Requires font
Dictionary plugin		 --- --- --- --- ---
Marathi --- --- Native Keyboard
Requires font		 --- --- --- --- ---
Bengali --- --- Native Keyboard
Requires font		 --- --- --- --- ---
Gujarati --- --- Native Keyboard
Requires font
Dictionary plugin		 --- --- --- --- ---
Gurmukhi Punjabi --- --- Native Keyboard
Requires font		 --- --- --- --- ---
Oriya --- --- Native Keyboard
Requires font		 --- --- --- --- ---
Sinhala --- --- Native Keyboard
Requires font		 --- --- --- --- ---
Kannada Plugin
Requires font		 --- Native Keyboard
Requires font		 --- --- --- --- ---
Malayalam --- --- Native Keyboard
Requires font		 --- --- --- --- ---
Tamil Plugin
Requires font		 --- Native Keyboard
Requires font		 --- --- --- --- ---
Telugu --- --- Native Keyboard
Requires font		 --- --- --- --- ---
Tibetan --- --- Native Keyboard
Requires font		 --- --- --- --- ---
Burmese --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
Khmer --- --- Native Keyboard
Requires font		 --- --- --- --- ---
Lao Plugin
Requires font		 --- Native Keyboard
Requires font		 --- --- --- --- ---
Thai Plugin Native Keyboard
Dictionary plugin		 Native Keyboard
Dictionary Plugin		 --- --- --- --- ---
Canadian Aboriginal --- --- Native Keyboard
Requires font		 --- --- --- --- ---


Fonts

Many of these keyboards won't work unless you have the correct fonts, and many Android devices (such as the Galaxy Tab mentioned above) do not allow you to install fonts. To install fonts on such devices, you will have to root them, before installing fonts. Detailed rooting instructions can be found here. Keep in mind that rooting your phone will format it, which means that it is very important to back-up your data prior to rooting.

Once your device is open, you will be able to install true-type fonts directly on your device, or use an installer from Android, such as this one for Georgian.

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