Cyrillic Characters for old Fitbit Trackers

Dear Fitbit,

 

I have Fitbit Surge and the option for notification works pretty poor as the messages in Cyryllic are not shown as they should be, they are show in squares.

 

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453 Comments
Enkey
First Steps
A little update from my side. Altough I liked my Charge HR, I just sold it yesterday due the missing Cyrillic encoding. It was really frustrating to feel left alone in the dark from support perspective. Statements like "great thanks for the tip, we will consider if there is much demand shown" are just for distracting purposes - the probability of actually implementing this feature is too low, because they won't consider it valuable and there will be no much demand demonstrated because not everyone will go and post it at a forum. I'm really sorry because of my dissapointment and I would be definitely keeping it if that (actually the most valuable everyday feature) was polished enough.

Kind regards
SunsetRunner
Not applicable

Recently got a new fitbit Alta. Origianlly I was drawn to Alta for the ablity to show notifications such as text messages from the phone. Now this feautre almost useles: most of the text messages I receive are in cyryllic. I can only see who sends the message (because I store contact name in latin on my phone), not a message body. Really hoping to get cyryllic added soon.

YkLee
Jogger

I am living in korean, and some of my contacts are in Korean(iOS)

 

When contacts are in korean, the fitbit charge, Surge, Blaze does not show who called and SMS. so i have no idea who called.

 

the Fitbit charge, Surge, Blaze is officially launched in Korea, and I am supprised to see that such function is not availiable.

 

Please make support for Korean and other Asian Languages if it's too difficult, then showing the caller's phone number would be fine. not showing anything is just dumb.

 

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AndreaFitbit
Premium User
Fitbit Moderator
Fitbit Moderator

This is a great idea. Specially for foreign people that speaks another language Robot LOL.

Dimitry
First Steps

guys, kindly don't forget to add Cyrillic alphabet. It would be great device enhancement for slavs

polypoe
First Steps

Thank you for rasie the issue @dendei, I am dying to read "Thai" on my brand new fitbit blaze as well. Smiley LOL

Khrystyna
First Steps

Dear Fitbit,


You`ve made incredibly useful and good working devices. It will be really great to add Cyrillic support for notifications.

Adisol
Jogger
I need Thai font for my notification.(Fitbit blaze)
Ritochka
First Steps

Well, there is everything but 2 things in Alta: hr monitor and cyrillic fonts in notifications. Since crying for hr is too late i am strongly asking to include cyrillic support in notifications. I seriously doubt that adding unicode support is so difficult. I did not even ask when i was buying the device as this is a standard nowdays. I do not need translations, but seeing squares instead of letters flips me all right.

Просьба к кириллическому сообществу поддержать запрос. Речь о шрифтах в уведомлениях в Альте. Добавление юникода решит проблему, а времени не потребует вообще. Голосуем!!!

 

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Ritochka
First Steps
I wonder what they develop with if unicode is not supported. Still on Delphi 7?
Ritochka
First Steps
I would remind it also implies to Alta.
Cuddy63
First Steps

Same on Blaze. Notifications and contacts containing Cyrillic charachters are displayed as squares. The device is cool, but it's a really bad impression when you are featuring tracker to your friends and here comes notification full of invalid symbols Smiley Sad

MOHAMMEDR
Jogger
Really we need to have the Arabic language supported in fitbit blaze watches
Or you can share the watch code and let the open community work with you to enable the Arabic letters notifications in the fitbit Blaze watch
Nanospace
First Steps
Please support thai for notification thank you
user287361845
Jogger

Dear Fitbit, 

Could you please implement Cyrillic into Blaze.

 

 

Thanks,

Alex

akobiakov
Stepping Up

Please don't forget to put a thumbup on the top post. That adds some weight to this feature request. 😉

MOHAMMEDR
Jogger
Gent
More than 420M people out there speaking Arabic
Why ignoring thier language from your priorities
Why Arabic language needs voting to be added in Blaze?
SunsetRunner
Not applicable

Desparately need support for Traditional Chinese!

photoguy
Jogger

A traditional Chinese support will be great!!

photoguy
Jogger

Also a watchface with HR at the center with big font is necessary for Blaze. The strength/selling feature of Blaze is on haert rate monitroing. Easy read of HR display is way more important than any other information, in my opinion.

photoguy
Jogger

I "upgraded" from a Pebble to Blaze but I found out, it is actually one upgrade with sacrifice of two downgrades to me.

One upgrade: HR monitor (well, replacing my Fitbit zip to Blaze is a convenience, not upgrade to me in terms of activity tracking)

two downgrades: Blaze is not waterproof/waterresistant; Blaze does not support international language as complete (no traditional Chinese support)

 

a little sad...

lotusfirst
Jogger

Yes. Traditional Chinese and emoji please.

WarrenWong
First Steps

Cool!!! Please support Traditional Chinese on Blaze's notification, it's not good enough only supporting Simplify Chinese at new update...

allergeek
First Steps
I was considering to buy Fitbit Alta and a lux accessory, but I won't because of the lack of Cyrillic characters support. Count me in $$$
allergeek
First Steps
Hi, could you please join this discussion and vote there too! I am considering Alta but not without the notifications and caller's name in Cyrillic. Thank you! Alice
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