Unicode support for notifications and messages in Fitbit Ionic?

[vitalis]

Hello,

there is a 2-years old thread about Unicode support for notifications and messages in Fitbit Charge 2. Obviously nobody from Fitbit bothered to reply, not to mention about making this feature.

Before many other people like me will pay their own money for Fitbit's R&D and beta testing it will be good to know, does Fitbit Ionic support Unicode in notifications and messages?

[DHC]

Indeed I won't consider another round with fitbit products, especially a smartwatch, w/o proper support for more languages. This has been long requested - and ignored.

[vitalis]

Yep. And for the price tag of Fitbit Ionic there are a lot of alternatives available (e.g. with Android Wear, where everything is Ok in respect to Unicode/other languages)

[DICTATOR78]

+++ DOES IT???

[NickAK]

Would be good to hear something from good folks at Fitbit and not a canned reply. Does Ionic notifications support non-Latin based characters?

Or is the situation the same as with Charge 2 and Blaze that to this day can't deal with Russian, Greek, Hebrew just to name a few languages...

[DICTATOR78]

????? ????? ?????

[DICTATOR78]

We are still waiting for an answer...

[bbarrera]

Ionic does not have full emoji support, and no GIFs or MMS: 

https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Ionic/MMS-text-message-pictures/m-p/2190357

and

https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Ionic/reply-to-txt-msgs/m-p/2163140/highlight/true#M18

Also reported that it only displays notification, you can't dismiss on Fitbit and have it also clear on phone.

[poganel]

I completely agree!

[DICTATOR78]

I hope that someone will check this out - looking forward to get one for myself

[liongirl15007]

Please also add support for different regions - not all languages are created equal.

For example: be able to select Latin American or EU Spanish, Canadian or EU French, German or Austrian or Swiss German, Belgian or Netherlands Dutch (when Fitbit actually bothers to add support for the Dutch language... come on, guys, it's a latin script language with very few special characters!!). 

This also needs to be implemented retroactively, since even in earlier Fitbit models with only the date, there are significant linguistic differences (e.g. German-German "Januar" vs. Austrian-German "Jänner")

Come on, Fitbit. It's no good to have a feature suggestion board, when you ignore everything your customers say.

[vitalis]

Finally Fitbit's moderator did appear in that 2.5-year old thread and closed the thread with a status 'Not currently planned':

"Hi everyone, thanks for sharing this suggestion. There aren't currently plans to release this feature. You can learn more about how Fitbit decides what suggestions get released here in our FAQs. For now, we will leave this suggestion open for votes (and closed to comments) so that we can continue to track community demand over time. Thanks for taking the time to share your feedback with us and we will let you know if anything changes."

For me it is a clear sign that new devices like Fitbit Ionic will not have unicode support in messages and notifications. So Fitbit devices are vanished for me as my next purchases. Bye, Fitbit...

[DHC]

same here. no point moving forward with new fitbit products I can't really enjoy to full.

[Erik_KZ]

Hi, Fitbit Team! Pls add UNICODE support! It's will be very important for users from many regions (CE Europe, CIS countries, Israel, etc.)!

[Andy-fbit]

Does Fitbit Ionic support Unicode in notifications and messages?

NO (((

Please upvote here

https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Feature-Suggestions/Cyrillic-Characters-for-Fitbit-Trackers/idi-p/91...

[OplGV]

Hi guys!Solution found!!!! 

There is an app in Google play. It resends and could translit all notification into Latin 🙂

I tried on my ionin everything works just great!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abhijitvalluri.android.fitnotifications 

[Ayman82]

Hi,

I confirm that up to now, no support for Unicode in Ionic.

😕

[vitalis]

:((

Get Outlook for Android

[OplGV]

Fitbit doesn't support unicode, yes! 

But you could translit all your notifications from the phone into latin symols! 

Thus , all your messages could be read now on your Fitbit watch! ,;)

[vitalis]

poor man's workaround 😞

Does it mean that all notifications will be translated in to Latin in a phone itself? If so, I would not use that application.

What I don't understand - how it is possible that in a 2nd decade of 21st century, when ALL other competitors do have Unicode support (many of them - already for years), the latest flagship of FitBit still sits in ASCII...