One of the options when setting up Android is Language. Currently you get a choice of English (United States), (United Kingdom) and now (India), but with options for English (Australia) buried in the options that you can choose later, who wants to select it later? Well, a feature request currently being looked at by Google for release in Android L could change that.
An Android user, Nancy, has lodged feature request 1061, in the Android Developer Preview Bug Tracker to try and entice Google into doing that. The request reads:
These are not sufficient as:
1)Spelling is different to the English:US ie: colour vs color, customise vs customize
2) The English:UK keyboard place the ‘pound’ currency as the default whereas we use the dollar in Australia which makes things very bothersome.
http://ausdroid.net/howto/make-your-nexus-5-speak-australian/ an outline of the current situation that has been there.
This would greatly benefit those of us in Australia in having a smooth and excellent language and keyboard option. It would also be great to have this option for those of us using stock Android tablets at university where it is bothersome to have to manually add words into the onboard word dictionary when using English:US
The feature request has been seen by a Googler – Basak Buyukcelen – who has advised :
Thank you for this suggestion. We will pass this along to the development team and provide updates as they are available.
Currently only 4 people have starred this issue, but with around 60% of the market in Australia using Android, surely we can make that number grow. Head over to the Bug Tracker and star the request and share the link around, hopefully we can get some serious numbers behind it.
