Mobile linux news

2008 08 28

Free Software Gains More Language Support

Decathlon to translate multimedia tools

Speakers of Hindi and Tagalog will soon benefit from the work of a project called Decathlon which is translating multimedia software into these languages. Other languages from the Indian and Far Eastern subcontinent, such as Bengali, Nepali, Pashto, Burmese and Tetum, may also benefit from this venture. Organised by African localisation organisation Translate.org.za and funded by a grant from the Open Society Institute (OSI), the Decathlon project is focusing its translation energies on the VLC multimedia program.

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Recent: Firefox translated into Ugandan language

A two-day translation marathon has resulted in a version of Mozilla's Firefox browser Firefox in Luganda, Uganda's most widely spoken language. The software will be made available by Makerere University's Faculty of Computing and Information Technology (CIT) with the aim of giving non-English speakers a browsing tool.

http://s5h.net/u?z43717