Ask HN: Any possibility of decent multi-language support on Android?
How come multi language support is as poor as it is?<p>Living in a non English speaking country (whose language I also speak), my device
is set to English (as main language), which leaves me with the following problems:<p>Google maps will pronounce every street name in English. Can&#x27;t have messages from locals read aloud while driving (using android car) for the same reason. Can&#x27;t dictate even short replies using the local language. I can&#x27;t even initiate phone calls by voice since looking up contacts with non English sounding names is a pain.<p>The only remedy seems to be to set the complete device to the local language ; so now I
have all the problems reversed (it won&#x27;t be able to read English, I won&#x27;t be
able to dictate English), but this also switches over the complete system including
every app.<p>Setting multiple languages in Android seems to be for auto-correct only. Great! Love it &#x2F;s<p>Why no auto-detect? Google Translate (or MS Translator) do a reasonably good job
differentiating between dozens of languages, but Android can&#x27;t do that with only the
few languages I use and have set? Why is there no manual way to set a language for a certain app? This would be awesome for language learners. Play Game &#x27;XYZ&#x27; in let&#x27;s say French without having to switch over your complete system, why not?<p>Am I so alone with this, is my use case so unique? How come it sucks so hard in 2020?