What Languages Can Tiger Read and Write?

Last modified: Mar 8, 2021 4:35 PM
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The tech specs for Tiger provide info on the languages for which Tiger is localized (i.e. to which its menus and dialogues can be switched), but nothing on the much longer list of languages for which fonts and keyboards are provided to enable reading and writing. These are:

Arabic, Azeri, Armenian, Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Cherokee, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Devanagari, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, German, Greek (regular and polytonic), Gujarati, Gurmurkhi (Punjabi), Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Inuktitut, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Maori, Nepali, Northern Sami, Norwegian, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, and Welsh

Additional languages can also be supported by downloading other fonts and keyboard layouts.

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