HindiStatus

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Contents 1 Hindi Localization status 1.1 Core stuff 1.2 Translations 1.3 Tools 1.4 ToDos

Hindi Localization status

Successes

• Localised Desktop
• Hindi translation standardization

Core stuff

• Locale: glibc, CLDR
• Fonts: Gargi, Lohit-Hindi, Sarai, AksharYogini, Chandas, Samanata
• Input methods: Inscript XKB, Bolnagri XKB, SCIM inscript+phonetic+bolnagri

Translations

• KDE 4.x, GNOME 2.26, XFCE 4
• Firefox 3.0.x
• OpenOffice 2.x
• Pidgin
• OpenOffice Help

Tools

• Aspell words list
  • need affix rules
• Hunspell (rules to be added)
• TTS: Dhvani, Festival
• STT: Sphinx

ToDos

• Correcting spellchecker dictionaries
• Extend FUEL & implement it
• Implement Translation Framework
  • TranslationFramework
  • TranslationDatabase
  • TFRequirements
  • UserRoles
• Getting more ppl to translate
  • Find more people/organizations to work with
  • Organize translation sessions, workshops in specific areas/domain
• Do domain based localization work, specific to areas and usefulness in deployment scenarios.
  • eg. CMS (Drupal, Joomla, Mediawiki)
  • Children games/learning tools (gcompris, kdeedu, kdegames, edubuntu etc)