On 5:17:49 pm 06/04/06 "asim wagan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I am interested in supporting sindhi language for gnome. I need some > help on how to do it in gnome. Language code for sindhi is [sd]. It > is written similarly like arabic script , some work is already gone > into developing some crude fonts. So I have really start from scratch > for this.
Hi, It is great that you want to spearhead an effort for Sindhi localization. Please consider joining the IndLinux effort (http://indlinux.org). You should post a copy of this to the indlinux-group mailing list, which you can subscribe to from the top of http://indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/MailingLists. Despite the name, IndLinux is about localizing free software to Indic languages, and is not particularly restricted to India or Linux. Most of the actual work is done by individual language teams. You will need to do several things for starting work on a new Indic language, including: (i) An OpenType, Unicode font. (ii) Keymaps, and/or other input methods for Sindhi support. (iii) An editor that supports the script. (iv) A locale that defines linguistic and cultural preferences for Sindhi. If Sindhi uses an Arabic script, all of these should be quite easily doable. Let us continue this conversation on indlinux-group, as it is probably a little off-topic for gnome-i18n. Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
