[Localization] SLP y Nayarit-Mexico

Sayamindu Dasgupta sayamindu at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 15:03:46 EDT 2009


On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Janet Melchor <janet at laptop.org> wrote:
> Hello everybody!
>
> I read the information you sent me, Sayamindu, thanks!
>
> Now the question is if is possible be able to write dialect's characters
> from the keyboard I don't know maybe with a special configuration and using
> sticker under each keyboard key. I know always sound easier than actually is
> but they'd like try it.
>

What keyboard layout do you have ? Do you know the name of the script used ?

Thanks,
Sayamindu


> Any information or link is very welcome.
>
> Saludos!
>
> 2009/9/19 Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello Janet!  To add a localization, you should check with Sayamindu
>> > and our localization list.  There is an interface for adding new
>> > languages for Sugar :
>> > http://translate.sugarlabs.org/
>> >
>> > (sayamindu: is there a sugarlabs localization list more active than
>> > the one at laptop.org ? )
>>
>> Nope - localization at lists.laptop.org is the only one.
>>
>> There are two main steps to get a new language in Sugar
>>
>> * The first is to gather the locale data for the language, which would
>> take care of region and language specific information, such as name of
>> months, weekdays, currency symbol, etc etc I can help a native speaker
>> of this language (or anyone who is sufficiently comfortable with the
>> language) to turn the locale data into something usable in Sugar
>> * The second step is to translate as much of the Sugar interface as
>> possible - http://people.sugarlabs.org/sayamindu/pootleforxo2_5.pdf is
>> a primer on how to do that.
>>
>> Of course, both the locale data gathering and translation can proceed
>> simultaneously.
>>
>> Let me know if there is anything else that you need to know.
>> Warm regards,
>> Sayamindu
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sayamindu Dasgupta
>> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
>
>
>
> --
> Janet Melchor
>



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Sayamindu Dasgupta
[http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]


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