title: Android : unsupported language questions - Laos
body: <p>I'm not sure what do do about this one.  My app needs to have Loation support (Laos) - the locale is not in Android and not available in any locale packs. Although I did find a Laos Language Pack, but installing it didn't seem to change anything.</p>
  
  <p>I am just trying to get a simple textview to display the correct text.  When I use the Loation word like "ສະບາຍດີ", I get just boxes.  </p>
  
  <p>In the following - the setting of the locale works, and I have the strings.xml file in values-lo, values-en, etc.  I tried this with chinese and english, and it seems to work fine for both languages - but this Laos thing is not cooperating.</p>
  
  <pre><code>    Locale locale = new Locale("lo"); 
      Locale.setDefault(locale);
      Configuration config = new Configuration();
      config.locale = locale;
      getBaseContext().getResources().updateConfiguration(config, getBaseContext().getResources().getDisplayMetrics());
  
      setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
  
      textView =  (TextView)findViewById(R.id.editText);
  
      Typeface myTypeface = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "TAW107.TTF");
  
      textView.setTextSize(40);
      textView.setTypeface(myTypeface); 
      textView.setText(getString(R.string.hello_world));   /this gives boxes for "ສະບາຍດີ"
  </code></pre>