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Arabic language support in Manjaro new Edition - Nido - 11-05-2020

Dear Pine-Experts, 
after newbie generalised look at the new Manjaro information.. is a Majaro phone operable in Arabic (text writing - messaging in Arabic).. or is it only for English speaking people ? 
I like the phone for its form factor, battery, humble nice look etc. But I am really concerned if I can write Arabic using its keyboard. 

Many thanks in advance,


RE: Arabic language support in Manjaro new Edition - marcih - 12-03-2020

I hope you'll still see this, considering your post is a month old. Confused Localization is a known issue with Manjaro:

Here's a bug report about the phone language not changing:
https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/issues/pinephone/phosh/-/issues/56

Here's a bug report about the keyboard not allowing to enter special characters from other languages:
https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/issues/pinephone/phosh/-/issues/103


RE: Arabic language support in Manjaro new Edition - ryo - 12-05-2020

@marcih
It's not just the interface language, the same problem exists in input methods.
To this day I still can't manage to get Fcitx to work (turned out that I need to use Fcitx5 for Wayland, and even that doesn't work).
I can use the Japanese Kana keyboard (which is really a pain to use compared to those in Android, iPhone, garake, and even Ubuntu Touch), but I'm limited to just Hiragana (ひらがな) and Katakana (カタカナ) on that one, so no way of inputting Kanji (漢字), being able to input that is necessary.