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
Andy-fbit
Recovery Runner

Hi, have they replied anything yet?

I don't have instagram but I've sent message via facebook. Will keep you posted.

vitalyk
Recovery Runner

It seems that Ionic can display emoticons which might mean that it supports unicode which in turn might mean that support for international characters is almost there.

Sting26
First Steps
I’m totally disappointed. Are there any developers at all at Fitbit??
Support Cyrillic, support all other types of alphabets?!? Hello? Earth is
calling Fitbit!?! Where do you fall from? Latin covers a portion of this
world’s customers, and you want all potential customers! It’s not enough to
want, you’ve got to give! I didn’t even imagine this thing could be so
stupid and not support other alphabets, so I made the mistake to buy it.
Shame on you!
Sergei
Jogger

Fitbit has a development center in Belarus and products they create and do not support Cyrillic. Doesn't Fitbit employee use there own products??? Or they do not use their own language? 😉

 

Абсолютно не понимаю!

Yurisrus
Recovery Runner

Fitbit won’t add Cyrillic. It seems they got some kind of radical national in charge of that department who is discriminated against other languages. They easy can do this, just like they did with emoji and others. It’s just Software not hardware but again they not interested to support other nations

Alexkryts
First Steps

We really need this feature!

i just bought new Fitbit charge 2 and some of my friends are using Cyrillic symbols and it only shows invalid characters.. blank squares. 

It barely makes it useful now for me 😕

please work on this ASAP!

Aleco2k
First Steps

I am planning the upgrade from Fitbit Blaze. Have to decide between Fitbit Ionic and Apple Watch. Ionic looks better with longer battery life and dear iphone app. But lack of Cyrillic support looks like a showstopper 😞

Andy-fbit
Recovery Runner

Hello!

 

Good news - quietly this has been resolved. With a kind of workaround but it's better than nothing! 🙂

 

Fitbit have added transliteration and now non-unicode messages are readable, try this setting:

 

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Sahafi
First Steps

please add persian support or UTF8 Unicode

Yurisrus
Recovery Runner

Is this works on IOS?

MarSoft
First Steps

@Andy-fbit thanks for good news; this is an ugly workaround but it is definitely better than nothing...

izotope
Jogger

 And where do i configure this parameter in iOS?

Pashka
Jogger

I'm done with Fitbit.  Gave it 3 tries.  Going to Android Wear.  Bye bye forever

VoronServer
Jogger

Enabled transliteration in settings. So far, so good...

VMnomad
First Steps

can't see transliteration feature in Blaze settings. 

 

Fitbit spends so much resources on developing its own social networks which I don't use at all, but can't enable Unicode

Yurisrus
Recovery Runner

Где настроить в IOS? Там нигде нету этой опции...C6D67075-8848-4046-953D-1761BE01731D.png

 

Yurisrus
Recovery Runner

Transliteration...

TripleEYE
Stepping Up

Thanks @Andy-fbit

This workaround has  actually been there for quite a while now, but it is nice of you to point out.

 

Unfortunately, it is no where near useful for most languages I have noticed requests for in this thread, like Hebrew, Persian, and other such UTF-8 related font users.

 

Maybe it is half-useful for Russian speakers? I'm nit sure.

 

Either way, I've been lurking at this thread for over a year now... It truly seems like FitBit as a company just doesn't give a crap about us UTF-8 users.

Note even a Ginuwine Pig crap, which I have been told is tiny.

 

But it's nice to see a user caring enough to inform other users and even uploading a screen shot (:

ramazanyich
Jogger

у меня charge2 и Android phone

gorserg
Recovery Runner

У меня Surge

Sting26
First Steps
Good choice. I will do the same.
ramazanyich
Jogger

charge2 firmware  22.22.55.2

loknar
Recovery Runner

Need Cyrillic encoding in messages from iphone

AnnaFit79
First Steps

please support  Cyrillic, can't see contacts or messages on Blaze 😞

hraban
First Steps

How come adding full UTF support is a problem? Please do not ignore 20 pages worth of this feature requests, this is needed badly

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