Re: [tlug] Making an Android device bilingual

[Dave Evans <dave@example.com>]

On 2013/12/15 12:50, CL wrote:
> On 12/14/2013 08:13 PM, Dave Evans wrote:
> > You can side-load a compatible keyboard if you want. I did that, and
> > am able to write in Japanese just fine on my English Kindle Fire (8.9"
> > from last year.)
> Imagine for a minute that you're sending this to a person who last used
> the term "side-load" in a computing environment to describe a type of
> 80-column punch card reader that he used in his daily work to copy his
> COBOL programs on to paper punch tape or 2" magnetic tape (this was
> before we got "modern" screw-on demountable 380Mb hard drives in the
> ultra-compact 30" size).  The term calls up visions of mechanically
> attaching or inserting something into something else, producing an
> audible, satisfying "click" sound.

I grew up on an Apple //e, luckily with two 5.25" disk drives, so I 
didn't need to mess with those things.

> Are there some instructions around that someone as inept as me could use
> to try this procedure?  And, is jailbreaking required?

Jailbreaking is not required.  Here are some notes I wrote up a long 
time ago: http://fugutabetai.com/?postid=513
Actually, I don't use the JellyBean keyboard now.  I just use the 
default Amazon Japanese keyboard.  I have a US Kindle, but once I 
installed the Jellybean keyboard, that opened up access to the normal 
Keyboard layout options panel, which also included the stock Amazon 
Japanese keyboard.  Which I like slightly better.
> > After jailbreaking it you can put even more keyboards on it, but if
> > you use the Amazon ecosystem it probably is better not to jailbreak.
> I only need to bounce between two -- within the same message, sometimes,
> so I'd like to use a combination keystroke command to switch between
> languages, as I do with iBus. Well, I  also like Avast! but BitDefender
> (which Amazon allows) seems to be working okay.
I have the same requirements.  The Amazon keyboard has a button that 
toggles between hiragana, roman, and numbers.
> > Dave E. Disclaimer: I might be employed at a large river-themed
> > ecommerce company, but not in any capacity related to Kindle stuff.
> Wow.  I've never met anyone from the Rio Grande Tex-Mex Food site,
> before.  I need more Carrol Shelby's Chili Mix.  Do y'all deliver overseas?
Wrong river, but sometimes we deliver overseas.  ;-)

Dave E.