Locale / Language Issue

[Guest billybiro]

Hi,

My Acer Liquid Metal came with Gingerbread and the latest Acer Firmware (Acer_LiquidMT_4.000.13_EMEA_GEN1), however, when initially setting up the phone, I'm asked to select my locale. I'm in the UK, so I select "English" (which is the full title of the option offered). After setup, when I go back into Android's settings to check (Settings > Language & Keyboard) it displays "English (United States)". I've recently flashed Gingerounay 3.1 and this does exactly the same thing!

This is very frustrating as it subtely changes other things around the phone (i.e. when phone numbers are displayed, they are shown grouped like XXX-YYY-ZZZZ rather than XXXYYYZZZZ) not to mention that the various keyboards dictionaries are based upon US spellings (i.e. color not colour etc.)

Is there anyway (using any particular ROM) that I can get the Android settings to realise I'm in a "English (United Kingdom)" locale (and all the little changes that means) as well as ensuring that I have UK English dictionaries available for the keyboards ???

Thanks.

[Guest cheebstar]

I think there is an app called MoreLocale2 is able to change your dictionary to UK English. I'm not sure if reformats phone numbers though, but give it a try. I'm sure there is some workaround you can do when syncing with Google Contacts, but I don't know the specifics.

[Guest k123456]

I have exactly the same prob, phone numbers I cant help with,

however KBD, download swiftkey,using swiftkey, pick UK English

Hi,

My Acer Liquid Metal came with Gingerbread and the latest Acer Firmware (Acer_LiquidMT_4.000.13_EMEA_GEN1), however, when initially setting up the phone, I'm asked to select my locale. I'm in the UK, so I select "English" (which is the full title of the option offered). After setup, when I go back into Android's settings to check (Settings > Language & Keyboard) it displays "English (United States)". I've recently flashed Gingerounay 3.1 and this does exactly the same thing!

This is very frustrating as it subtely changes other things around the phone (i.e. when phone numbers are displayed, they are shown grouped like XXX-YYY-ZZZZ rather than XXXYYYZZZZ) not to mention that the various keyboards dictionaries are based upon US spellings (i.e. color not colour etc.)

Is there anyway (using any particular ROM) that I can get the Android settings to realise I'm in a "English (United Kingdom)" locale (and all the little changes that means) as well as ensuring that I have UK English dictionaries available for the keyboards ???

Thanks.

[Guest billybiro]

Thanks for the replies guys..

What you've suggested is basically what I've resorted to... I've installed "Any Locale" from the Android market which sets the phone locale to en-GB (English UK basically) which fixes little issues like the phone number grouping (there's no grouping now) and I've also installed "ICS Keyboard" from the Android Market which comes with an "English UK" dictionary.

What is kinda annoying is that such simple little things like this are not included "out-of-the-box". It's even more ridiculous when you consider that the Acer firmware/ROM is the EMEA version (Europe, Middle East & Asia) so then WTF would it think that a selection of "English" was English (United States) ??!??!?!

Next little problem is trying to get back the ability to edit a Contact's birthday on the AOSP contact app!! Grr.... It wasn't there in various versions of Froyo, then it was added, now it appears to be gone again in Gingerbread. WTF??!? This is basic functionality stuff. My 10-year old Nokia brick could do this easily!!!!

Ok.. Rant over.

Thanks for your help, guys!