[Localization] XOs for Cambodia (was...)

[Javier SOLA]

Walter Bender wrote
>> There is a government standard Unicode keyboard...
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>
> Can you please send me a pointer to this? (I am by default using the
> standard layout defined by the XKB symbol table that is standard with
> Linux, but as you note, it seems suboptimal.)
>   
I am afraid it is the same. There are vowels that Unicode refused to 
include in the table, because they could be constructed with two code 
points, but they are quite used standard vowels, and it does not make 
sense not to have them in the keyboard. Technology has to solve the problem.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133361&package_id=164533
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>> If you think that this is not necessary, then why is
>> XO doing localization?
>>     
>
> Necessary no. But of course it is better to work with the local
> language, so of course we work with local experts to do so.
>   
This is a strong opinion. It disagrees with most educators in the world 
and their experience. You need a lot of data (evaluations) to back up 
such opinion.

I have spent the last five years of my life in Cambodia, doing 
localization, and designing tools like Pootle o the WordForge 
localization Editor, because I know it NOT to be true, because I did try 
at the beginning to teach the use of computers in English to Cambodian 
students... and it just doesn't work. If this was not true, the 
Cambodian Ministry of Education would have never changed to Open Source.

Javier