Here comes the relevance from an earlier discussion of mine http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2623722 - "Nobody in India uses computers in Indian languages".

This tablet can revolutionize rural education, especially since the Indian govt mandates rural connectivity as a pre-requisite to handing out telecom wireless licenses. But you cannot teach village kids in English - especially, if in a few years they have to go and read the land records, inheritance documents, local newspapers which are in regional vernacular.

But the system is running Android - guess what is the top request on the Android bug list? (http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list?sort=-stars) Arabic language support.

Same problem as Indic fonts. Same problem on all Linuxes.