[android-developers] Re: On which Android version is it safe to use Hindi?

There's no official documentation, they dont list it for some reason.

As far as i know, 4.03 added Indian languages support (it was available on earlier versions for localized ROMs).

You can just add the translations to the app and either:

- Add a user option to override locale in case the font does not function properly

- Use a custom font throughout your application (not fun, but not that hard)

On Monday, September 16, 2013 12:43:53 PM UTC+3, Pieter wrote:

We have some apps that do great in India. In order to better cater for the users in that country, we have translated our strings.xml into Hindi.

However, searching the internet it seems not all Android versions have adequate support for Hindi, with complaints ranging from "black boxes" where Hindi characters should show up to "garbled" Hindi output. We find it difficult to find any hard data on which Android versions have acceptable Hindi support and which have not.

Does anyone have any data to share on this (either empirically or from "official" Google sources)?

Specifically:
- On which (stock) Android versions is it safe to use Hindi translations in "values-hi/strings.xml"?
- On which (stock) Android versions is it safe to use Hindi text in a WebView widget?

Any input would be appreciated!

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