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.

 

Moderator edit: updated subject for clarity and labels.

453 Comments
Linkoln89
First Steps

+1 for Cyrrilic characters!

You have a development office in Belarus, is it so hard to ask them to add support of cyrillic symbols?)

 

nxjeff
Jogger

 I seriously do not understand why you can implement it on the chinese firmware, but not possible in english firmware. I really do not like to use chinese interface on my blaze, i just want it to display chinese notification well. That's all.

SunsetRunner
Not applicable

Hello FitbIt,

 

I also a Fitbit user with backgroud of 3 years and I also want to have support Russian language. If translate contact list from Russian to English is not difficalt, so urge people send me SMS/emails just on English is impossible. Like a compromise I can suggest use transliteration rules. If you need I can provide transliteration table. I hope we will see support of Russian languages in future release of firmware. First of all in Fitbit Blaze.

CurtisT
Keeping Pace

Please understand that Traditional Chinese Language is different from Simplified Chinese. Lots of people living in Taiwan(not Thai) and HongKong are using it in their daily life. So, please support it especially notification function. Thanks.

user_in_asia
First Steps

Most of the comments has been year old, how long does it take to add a language support?

The blaze became useless while I am traveling and working in Asia such as Hong Kong and China, please add support for notification in Chinese Traditional Characters and Chinese Simplify Characters please.

Dimer
First Steps

No cyrrilic in 2017 in notifications. I is not feature. It is malfunction, I will return 2 blazers and 1 charge 2 to seller, because of absense of russian language.

 

Awful experience.

 

Anna3008
First Steps

Guys! It is just not fair! Cyrillic is lifeimportant!!! Please! Please! Please! 

Does anyone read our messages at all? 🤔

cause as I see nothing has been done since 2014 about this problem...

steroid
Jogger

+1 for Cyrrilic characters!

Mbenevat
First Steps

Totally right. Don't know why it takes so many people to write it. We made an official request with support, again on the google store ( for android) review for FITBIT after they asked for it.

were emailed by fit bit and by GOOGLE PLAY STORE that they need 48 hours to answer then they wanted another 4 days.. They are reviewing it. Just spoke with customer service. They are reviewing it. 

Im starting to doubt anyone is there. It's a simple technology that exists on so many devices, applications and system. Should be easy to apply. 

FITBIT ARE YOU READING THIS?  Do you hear the complaints? 

Would be nice to get an answer that doesn't seem like came from a robot.

hmhkh
First Steps
Agree with this post, we I have been begging for Arabic language from more than a year.

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Sting26
First Steps

I fully agree. You must work on Cyrillic support with high proirity. You sell these products in many countries that use the Cyrillic alphabet and I was surprised to see my Blaze does not display SMS and other notifications properly.

DICTATOR78
Recovery Runner

need Russian language for my BLAZE!

ribbedcrown
First Steps

I really need cyrillic in Surge 2.

vitaliysms
First Steps

I really need cyrillic in Alta.

bazikk
First Steps

Are you serious? I have had the Force,Charge(1) and they didn't have Cyrillic. I bought the AltaHR and it's 2017 and IT DOESNT HAVE IT ALSO!!! 

How is it possible? You can just add UTF8 and cover many languages. Thinking about selling or better returning it to the seller

ArielN
First Steps

Can you please add Hebrew support?

 

Can you please  share the multi support roadmap and timeline? 

adrian2404
Stepping Up

Guys, honestly, is it so difficult to support different characters sets? Do you care about your customers at all? This thread has been going since 2015 and nothing was done...

adrian2404
Stepping Up

Fitbit, what are the reasons that you don't support different languages/characters sets? 

Are we still in the 20th century or what?

How could you be so indifferent to your customers? 

SunsetRunner
Not applicable

As a convert from Moto 360 to Fitbit Blaze, support for languages other than English is a must. Was a bit disappointed to learn that my Hebrew text notifications will not display on the watch. 

Babis
First Steps

Yes, please add support for unicode characters, Greek characters are appearing as rectangles for calls, texts and all notifications. Unicode characters are required to use the features.

PavelKin
Jogger

CYRILLIC into Alta HR

Andreastzw
First Steps

Please add Greek language support

 

Aleco2k
First Steps

+1 for Cyrillic support in Blaze. Just purchased it as an upgrade from HR. Very disappointed to see just squares instead of Cyrillic. Пожалуйста!

Aleco2k
First Steps

+1 for Cyrillic support!

AlexanderPl
First Steps

Please add support for Hebrew language. Thank you in advance 

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