Re: Hindi and Software

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx>]

Ruchir Tewari rearranged electrons thusly:

> >d) Porting a complete OS like linux to use hindi may take it off the 
> >mainstream. All the softwares need to be rewritten and all the 
> >documentation etc, as well as a need for a programming language.
 
> linux has already been localised to more than 50 different languages,
> none of which unfortunately are indian languages. these include chinese
> and russian, two rising competitors to india in software. so 'mainstream 

You are right Ruchir.  There's not just localized tools / apps, there's a
considerable amount of original apps being coded to use Japanese.  For example,
WIDE (a Japanese org) has been producing (since the past few years) a script to
configure sendmail.  The interface to this script is coded in japanese,
needless to say.

> ps. hope everyone had a very happy and colorful holi ! cheers, - r

yeah - hope you enjoyed holi

	-s

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