Arabic Language

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I can help to make Arabic localization for the And Bible,

Can you send me the text in English & I can send you back the Arabic version

Thanks you a lot for that very nice application,
God bless you

Original issue reported on code.google.com by emad...@gmail.com on 12 Jun 2012 at 11:57

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Hi,

It would be terrific to have a localised Arabic interface?  For a long time 
Android did not support Arabic at all but it seems that Android 4 now supports 
Arabic.  Are you able to confirm this?

We use a web site named Amanuens to facilitate localisation of And Bible.  So I 
will set you up on Amanuens.  You should receive a registration e-mail.

JSword is a library we use and among many other things it provides localised 
bible book names.  It seems that Arabic book names are present but have been 
restricted for use in Egypt.  Could Arabic bible book names be different for 
Egyptians or do you think this is a mistake?

Martin

Original comment by mjden...@gmail.com on 13 Jun 2012 at 8:34

• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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Thank you a lot for the quick response,

about supporting Arabic language in android; there is android roms supports 
Arabic by default, made specially for middle east, I'm using Galaxy sII and 
still didn't upgrade to  ICS, and my mobile supports Arabic,
about ICS, I don't know if it's supporting Arabic by default or not, but what I 
read that Samsung didn't produce the middle east yet,

thanks for the Amanuens access, I'll discover it, 

about book bible names; I downloaded the "smith van dyke ketab el hayat" Arabic 
bible, and I thought that bible books names (in choose bible screen) would be 
in arabic as wrtten book, for me it doesn't matter because I speak English well 
but simple users would suffer from that.

I think it's handled from another place no in the apk application,

thanks a lot,

Original comment by emad...@gmail.com on 13 Jun 2012 at 9:26

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I have just asked about Arabic book names on the JSword mailing list and there 
is a suspicion that Egyptian Arabic is distinctive.  Do you know if that is the 
case?

I can enable the Egyptian Arabic Bible book names we have for all Arabic users 
and you can tell me if they are correct.  If they are not correct then I can 
add them for you to translate in Amanuens if that is okay.

Martin

Original comment by mjden...@gmail.com on 13 Jun 2012 at 9:35

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Great,

Can you let me to see the Egyptian Bible Book names to know if it doesn't match 
the standard or not?

let me know when I can login to Amanuens  project to begin translating And 
Bible,

Original comment by emad...@gmail.com on 13 Jun 2012 at 9:55

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You can log in to Amanuens now.  I will try to get a screen print to you 
tomorrow.

Martin

Original comment by mjden...@gmail.com on 13 Jun 2012 at 9:58

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Thanks a lot,

I began translating, and will continue tomorrow,

Again Thanks a lot for your huge effort, and your time that you gave for Arabic 
localization.

God bless you,

Emad

Original comment by emad...@gmail.com on 13 Jun 2012 at 10:14

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After you translate a string it is good to press the small icon on the left 
that looks like a piece of paper with a pink line along the bottom 
(https://my.amanuens.com/Content/Untranslated.png) to mark it as translated.

Thanks for your contribution
Martin

Original comment by mjden...@gmail.com on 14 Jun 2012 at 7:59

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Emad has added short bible book names and begun the Arabic localisation which 
is being continued in Transifex so I am closing this Issue report.

Original comment by mjden...@gmail.com on 14 Aug 2012 at 8:21

• Changed state: Done