[OLPC-Games] Wordsmith ( Scrabble ) :GSoC application

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:36:14PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Aditya Vishwakarma
> <adi.vishwakarma at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am Aditya Vishwakarma. An Information Technology student at NSIT, Delhi.
> >
> > I am working on making a Scrabble game as a GSoC project called Wordsmith.
> > The wiki page is located here -
> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wordsmith(scrabble)
> 
> Does Scrabble exist in Hindi or any other language of India?

Sure.

Either you place one syllable per square or separate the consonants and vowels 
into disjoint glyphs (probably looks funny but remains readable).

> I know
> how we could support Scrabble in any linear alphabetic writing such as
> Cyrillic alphabet, but I have trouble imagining it in Arabic, Chinese,
> Amharic, or Japanese kana.

I don't know what you would do with Chinese and Japanese kana.