African languages: Localisation and the one laptop per child project

Submitted by sociolingo on Sat, 03/01/2008 - 00:00.

Posted by sociolingo on December 16, 2007

One earlier criticism of the ‘one laptop per child‘ project was its emphasis on English. As the project develops there is now an initiative on localisation and the development of a multilingual keyboard for the XO laptop. Through the wiki there is a call out for translators and developers to work on this as volunteers.

From: the Hausa charsets and keyboard list.The One Laptop Per Child project (see m115) has a page for people who want to work on localization at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pootle#Sign-up . For languages like Hausa not yet in the table, it looks like you will have to add appropriate rows in order to enter your name.

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