Displaying non-English characters on phone

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"we are working on a project where the phone needs to display the
questions and radio buttons in the native language (Nepali).  I tested
this function by translating the <value> of the Label and Hint into
Spanish, and it worked great.  Its almost like a built-in translator
if the form is all radio buttons.

Now its time to insert Nepali characters.  I am using unicode in a
format of &#nnnn;
it doesn't work.  The form does not show on the gather app, even
though I can see it saved on the sd card.

Any one else have success with displaying non-Roman alphabet
characters in the forms?"

Original issue reported on code.google.com by yanokwa on 14 Dec 2011 at 5:11

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I don't think it is necessary to use the html entities for most unicode 
characters. For example you can copy and paste Chinese symbols directly into 
your xforms. However, Nepali might not be supported on Android. In Android 
2.3.4 I don't see it listed in the languages settings page. One workaround is 
to render the text as images using a tool like this one:
http://23.21.114.69/text_renderer/
I'm not sure why the form isn't showing up. I wonder if it shows up when the 
html entities are gone.

Original comment by nabr...@gmail.com on 23 Apr 2012 at 6:33

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Original comment by yanokwa on 25 May 2012 at 3:46

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Original comment by yanokwa on 26 May 2012 at 1:08

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No response from requester. Closing issue.

Original comment by mitchellsundt@gmail.com on 12 Jul 2012 at 7:28

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