Hoi, On the Foundation list I have started a thread about usability of the MediaWiki software. Central in this are extensions created by UNICEF. These ...
Hoi Gerard, I'm sorry to tell you that, even as a Western European (although having lived in East Africa for the last 12 years), I'm not computer-savvy enough...
Gerard, translating those 8 messages is just too easy! I did it for Swahili in less than 10 minutes - they are really short. Can people on this list complete...
Hoi, I blogged about the Luganda main page.. What do you think of it ? http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2008/12/wikipedia-main-page-with-twist.html Thanks, ...
Hoi, Luckily you do not have to create extensions. This is something that is done by programmers. What you can do is translate the eight messages for your ...
Hoi, Every month I post a message on the Wikipedias informing them on the status of their localisation. This time I have added a sentence if the localisation ...
Hoi, I have written about supporting Lingala in MediaWiki on my blog. The ɔ́ character showed properly while I was editing it and did not once I published my...
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Gerard Meijssen ... Also, I've been reporting for ages that the interface should use the same font as text so that "buttons"...
Hi Gerard, Thanks for your efforts on promoting the extensions and in publicizing the Luganda Wikipedia. These are important efforts that I'll highlight...
Hi Gerard, Renaud. Thanks for bringing this issue up. There are ongoing problems in the field with Latin-based orthographies that I call category 3 (have...
... It still partly is. ... Too bad me missed ; I'm not surprised ; _nobody_ outside language education-related NGOs are using such materials here. ... Well,...
Hi Renaud, Responses in text... ... Tried to connect with Geekcorps there - Dwayne Bailey was also in town as we were meeting with ACALAN (and others) - but no...
Hoi, I have opened a bug in Bugzilla. I am interested in learning what will happen. What you can do is "vote" for this bug and or follow what happens with this...
Hoi, I have created some screen prints on Meta and added it to the bug report. I learned that the ɔ́ shows properly in final form but not in the edit mode. ...
... Hum.. Last may I was contracted by Geekcorps ; I should have been told ; nervermind. ... Well, I was only talking about Mali. I've seen very different use...
There is no problem with Unicode per se and African languages. There are problems with: 1) operating system support for languages 2) application support for...
Hi Don although this is to some degree a design issue in yahoo groups. One important aspect of web internationalisation is the need for styling to be language...
From an end user perspective, You need to ensure appropriate fonts are available, but you also need to ensure that appropriate rendering/text layout...
End user needs: 1) font rendering / text layout service that supports combining diacritics with Latin script 2) appropriate fonts that also support combining...
The mention of characters displaying as boxes reminds me of an important aspect of all this. How wbe browsers behave. What fonts a web browser will attempt to...
Hi Gerard, The editing environment is a question of what fonts are being used by the browser in the edit window. Could you do another test instead of using...
Hoi, When it came to the testing, I did the "simple" thing. I took one word of the main page of the ln.wikipedia and i copied it accross. I do not know how to...
Hi Gerard It is a two step process. 1) test your browsers and operating system configuration with a file that should display correctly. 2) test the web service...
There are a few issues that really do need resolving, partly around education and training and partly around resourcing: 1) web developers need to undertsand...
I've added a screenshot using IE7 on Windows XP (Service Pack 3). Available at http://www.openroad.net.au/dev/test/lingala-test.png With the right fonts and...
Hoi, Andrew on my system the Safari is obviously superior. What I want to see is that the edit mode of Wikipedia is as good as the read mode. THIS is what we ...
It is a CSS issue, the CSS for the Wiki needs to altered so that both the pages themselves and the edit mode display correctly in each browser. Assuming a...
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