[Anubad] Firefox OS localization in Hindi

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:47 PM, priyanka nag <priynag at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, I was not aware of this discussion-notes else would have made sure to
> bring it up. Just putting down the few things we had discussed during the
> SAARC meet up (from localization point of view):

This is a bit unfortunate. I'd have thought that those who had
attended the meeting would have a memory of the discussions and
outstanding issues.

> Documentations to be there in local languages for the Wiki pages (well seems
> like in Bangladesh, people are not much in support of reading the wiki pages
> in English)

This is something that has been the bug-bear. Swarnava has been
continuing to do work on SUMO, I'm not well acquainted with how much
work remains.

> Bangladesh team has managed to get the Bengali spell checker for Firefox. If
> we can get our glossary ready, we can get our spell checkers as well (Robin
> from Bangladesh agreed to help us on this).

The spell checker for bn_IN has been around for a long time now. It is
used via hunspell. I am not too sure what you mean by "glossary". But,
a standardized list of terms for Bengali, running into over 100,000
words exists. And, it gets continuously refreshed and reviewed.

> I think Arky along with some other localization members has managed to get a
> template for localization ready. The general problems we face like whether
> to translate the brand names or just transliterate them etc are now
> prototyped and documented. So no more conflicts on these topic...just need
> to abide by the available rules. So we can get hold of this document, go
> through it once before the next sprint (whenever we plan for it).

Doesn't the Style Guide make specific references to what
terms/trade-marks/brand-names can be translated/localized ? At least
that is how Soumya (Deb) explained it to me.


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