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Seeking Nerdvana iPhone 3G customisation - how to hack the keyboard and number display format for any country
Seeking Nerdvana iPhone 3G customisation - how to hack the keyboard and number display format for any country | iPhone 3G customisation - how to hack the keyboard and number display format for any country |
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| by Adam Turner | |
| Monday, 21 July 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 3 The iPhone 3G 's keyboard lacks Australian customisation, but it's easy to do it yourself for any country on a Jailbroken phone.Featured Whitepaper
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The iPhone's .plist files are simple configuration files, but they can't always be edited with a standard text editor. Thankfully on the Mac there's a command line utility called plutil that can converts .plist files back and forth between binary and XML. Under the command line, open the folder containing Keyboard-en_US.plist (make sure you've got a backup copy in another folder). Now type; <string>.com.au</string> to whatever you want, just
make sure you change it under both Keycaps and Popup. You can even add
an extra string, such as <string>.net.au</string>, if you want to. Now save the file, go
back to the terminal and typeplutil -convert binary1 Keyboard-en_US.plistFinally it's just a simple matter of copying the file back to the same place in the phone's file system, overwriting the original file. The same process will let you edit other keyboard formats, such as the Keyboard-en_GB.plist file for English (UK). Now I know nothing about iPhone hacking, yet I still managed to figure this out in a few minutes just from what I could glean from Google searches. If I can do this to the iPhone 2.0 software, why can't Apple and the telcos do it out of the box? It's just not good enough. |
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