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From: Steve Ollis [mailto:steve.ollis@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 7:12 AM
To: 'commcare-users@googlegroups.com'
Subject: RE: Nokia 2730 ability to input hindi characters
Hi Jon - let me address this one, I caused that problem with work I was
doing on the menus.
Will update in a moment
Steve
From: commcare-users@googlegroups.com
[mailto:commcare-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Payne
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 2:03 AM
To: commcare-users@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Nokia 2730 ability to input hindi characters
Hi Clayton and Derek,
First off, thanks for creating the custom build. Unfortunately, CommCare
won't load now. Fails during "CommCare is starting" screen with this
message: "There was an error and CommCare cannot be started" The logs show
(also attached):
[Error loading locale hi. There were 2 keys which were contained in this
locale, but were not properly registered in the default Locale. Any keys
which are added to a locale should always be added to the default locale to
ensure appropriate functioning.
The missing translations were for the keys:
bpanc.menu.send.all,bapanc.menu.send.all.val,]
tried this on builds of two of our functioning apps and received same error.
Derek, my hope is that we'll also go with hinglish text entry. we've had
several requests for straight hindi entry, though, and will likely need to
demonstrate both. the regular texters that i've talked to all use english or
hinglish entry, so hopefully that's what we settle. interesting to hear
that's also the norm where you are.
Thanks,
jon
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Derek Treatman derek.treatman@gmail.com wrote:
Jon,
Quick comment: nearly every Hindi (or other) speaker I have met in India who
routinely writes SMS actually writes in Hinglish (Hindi words spelled with
Roman characters), even if their phone supports the Devanagari script. This
is always much faster as it requires less key strokes.
Obviously it will be useful for us to have Devanagari input supported in
CommCare, but just wanted to point that out in case it applies for your
users as well.
If you collect text inputs in Hinglish, there are plenty of handy
transliteration apps available online (like google translate) that will
convert Roman into Devanagari.
The best,
Derek
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Clayton Sims csims@dimagi.com wrote:
Jon,
So I believe that Hindi input is supported, but in a somewhat awkward way.
Our applications support text input in one of two ways: In the normal way,
you type keys and they enter text into fields on the screen one character at
a time. The alternate way is the default Nokia style where once you are on a
text box, you press the center button, pop out to a text entry UI, and then
finish up, going back into chatterbox. I don't believe that hindi text input
is possible in the former method.
Unfortunately, it's a compile time option to use the pop-out pop-in method
that will enable Hindi text, but I believe we can have the server roll you
guys a test build to see if that input mode is acceptable if you'd like.
-Clayton
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Jonathan Payne paynejd@gmail.com wrote:
Great idea to start a google group...
We are having trouble setting the input language to Hindi in CommCare on a
Nokia 2730. It's easy enough when using other programs (such as calendar or
to do list) using the "options" menu when a text box is selected, but this
is not supported from within commcare. As an alternative, i tried setting
the default language of the phone to Hindi, which still did not work. Does
CommCare support other input character sets? If yes, how do we enable this?
Thanks,
Jon
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