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[A12n-Collab] "Microsoft to launch applications in three Nigerian la

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Re: [A12n-Collab] "Microsoft to launch applications in three Nigerian languages"

Op Vrydag 2008-04-11 skryf Andrew Cunningham:
>
> 1a. input locale
> 1b. keyboard layouts or IME
> 1c. fonts (including UI fonts)
> 1d. font rendering / text layout
>
>
> Although vista has 1a, 1c and 1d, it is missing 1b
>
> It supports Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo, can localise into them, can
> display
> them, but can't type in them.

One has to wonder how they did the translations...

Friedel

Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:27 am

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