I posted a few days ago about finding the Hawai‘i region in the iPod Touch, and apparently the system-level support is even better than I thought. I set up a few locations using the Weather application, and found that it displayed the days of the week in Hawaiian as well. Too cool. What would be cooler would be to have the Hawaiian keyboard, too. I did find that I could not post this screenshot to this blog using WordPress for iPhone application – I kept getting: “Communication Error. Operation could not be completed (NSXMLParserErrorDomain error 5.” Hmmm.
Partial Hawaiian Support in iPhone!
We’ve been trying to get Hawaiian support into the iPhone for a while now. A colleague just stopped by with his (I am still sans-iPhone) and showed me this screen! This is in Settings -> International -> Regions. When selected all of the date and time string in your iPhone will be displayed in Hawaiian, and in the right order, i.e., Po‘alima, 16 Ianuali, 2009. There is no Hawaiian keyboard yet, but I’m hoping it will magically appear in a future update. Gotta love Apple!
Houdini No More?
We completed construction of and moved into our home 10 years ago this month. Just a few months after moving it we went to the Humane Society and adopted Sam. As we walked up and down the line of cages no dog really grabbed my attention, but our daughter M?lia pointed out this shaggy fellow. He seemed nice enough, and when I asked what his name is, the person helping us said “Sam”, and the deal was closed. “Sam” was the name of the only dog we ever owned when I was growing up on Maui. For some time now…