[LUGOS-SLO] [Fwd: [l10n-dev] FWD--Creating Locale Files for African Languages]

[Robert Ludvik]

Zdravo
Morda kdaj komu pride prav http://www.it46.se/localegen
Lp
Robert Ludvik


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Zadeva: [l10n-dev] FWD--Creating Locale Files for African Languages
Datum: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:33:58 -0500
Od: Louis Suarez-Potts <luispo at gmail.com>
Reply-to: dev at l10n.openoffice.org
Za: dev at native-lang.openoffice.org
CC: dev at l10n.openoffice.org

All,
Sorry for the cross post...

Alberto Escudero-Pascual, who helped to lead the Kswahili
localization of OOo (Jambo Office), sent me this note to pass along
to OOo localizers, esp. those working in African languages.


CREATING OF LOCALE FILES FOR (AFRICAN) LANGUAGES.

In very simple words, the locale is a file that defines conventions
for a specified language, such as time and numeric formatting,
character classification, monetary information and collation. The
locale is integrated in computer softwares as OpenOffice.org, Mozilla
Firefox etc.

An example of a locale is available here [1]

Following the interest of the African participants in Localization
workshop in Casablanca in June 2005 [2], we have been working in a
simple web interface to help the creation of such files in a (semi)
automatic way.

The basic idea behind the tool is to provide as many PRE-DEFINED
OPTIONS as possible to facilitate the creation of the locales and
reduce the number of errors.

The tool is can be found at http://www.it46.se/localegen

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

We are looking for volunteers in the community (specially in Africa)
to be the first evaluators of the tool. We will like to send as many
locales from African languages as possible before the deadline of
submissions to http://www.unicode.org/cldr/ the next 15 of March.

Please volunteer by joining the group by sending a mail to
aep at it46.se indicating the languages that you are interested. Kindly
distribute this message widely.


Alberto Escudero-Pascual
Louise Berthilson

[1] Example of locale http://www.it46.se/downloads/locale/sw_TZ.xml
[2] PanAfrican Localisation Woorkshop http://www.bisharat.net/PanAfrLoc/