[olpc-community-support] XO language support

[Jim Gettys]

I recommend this discussion take place on the localization mailing list.

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 23:06 +0000, iankile wrote:
> Awesome. Thanks. Yeah, Devanagari is used in both Hindi and Nepali.  Very handy when trying to learn them both.  Lots of overlap.  :)
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We're happy to get help translating to more languages.  Both translators
and language coordinators are needed.

Please see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Localization

We have a pootle translation system set up at
https://dev.laptop.org/translate/

> I changed the language to Hindi in the control panel and restarted but instead of the characters all I get are boxes with what looks like hexidecimal in them.
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That indicates no font with the right characters are available on the
machine.

> Do I need to download a character set or are all supported languages preloaded and I just did something wrong?
> 

No, we don't have all the ducks in a row for any but a few languages in
the G1G1 build.  Update.1 should have many more languages, how many
depends on people pitching in and helping.
 - Jim

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Jim Gettys
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