I'm going to start adding the basic support needed for Marshallese to head so that a dictionary can be added easily. Luckily there are ISO language codes.
Unfortunately, there is no 8-bit encoding which will support the language since it has some very rare characters. The ones I know about are a with macron, o with macron, o with cedilla, and m with cedilla. I'm attaching a sample file I just made so you can test it in AbiWord. You'll see that the macrons are fine if you have a capable font, but the cedillas don't work even with a good font such as Arial Unicode MS or Code2000. This is because combining characters must be used for the cedilla since Unicode has no precombined forms for o with cedilla or m with cedilla. I'll make up a bug report. Can somebody test these files with Xft etc and let me know how it goes. * Yahoo won't allow me to add attachments since I'm over quota ): I'll add them to the bug report instead. Andrew Dunbar. --- Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Pravin K Mudaliar wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:21:49 -0700 > > From: Pravin K Mudaliar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Translataions > > > > Yokwe. > > > > I am Pravin Mudaliar from the Marshall Islands .I > am currently working > > with the Ministry Of Education as a Information > System Specialists,my > > work mostly involves design,implement computer > labs and provide tech > > support to the users at all levels. > > > > I have a strong team participation within my > program and I am using > > this as a tactic to train local's in the > Information technology > > field.We have had some successes and our programs > are running fine. > > > > While surveying our education system,our > evaluations showed that we > > lack in the areas such as: > > > > a.. Using local language to produce materials > for education > > b.. Incorporate Marshall's spell check feature > with programs like > > word > > c.. Develop a electronic copy of Marshallese > Dictionary > > Fortunately I found your website which > provided some useful > > resources as far as developing a program for > letter writing etc using > > Marshallese language.At the moment I have download > some programs and I > > will try to work in translating these materials as > per instructions > > provided. > > If you want advice on making ispell, aspell, or > myspell* dictionaries > some of our users and developers have done so in the > past and should be > able to provided useful advice. > > > I would further like to discuss this opportunity > with your > > organization and request if you are interested to > work together and > > provide some consulting services. > > I am sure some of the developers will be willing to > help out, especially > if there is gainful employment to be had. (Andrew > Dunbar resident > linguaphile, speak up!) > > It is always great to have more people interested in > Abiword and using > Open Source software. > > > Sincerely Pravin Mudaliar > > I am sending a copy of this message to the developer > mailing list > which you might consider joining. > http://abisource.com/developers/ > > I did some quick research. > I decided I needed to at least learn where the > Marshall Islands are, > geography was never my strong subject. > > The Website of the Republic of Marshall Islands > http://www.rmiembassyus.org/ > (i am having trouble navigating the site, the menus > are acting strangely). > > Language: English and Marshallese are the official > languages. > From what I can tell Marshallese is written from > left to right and can be > written using the European Latin-1 Alphabet. > > I also search google for Marshallese ISO and got > this page > http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=MZM > > > * abiword works with ispell dictionaries normally > there is the option to > compile Abiword so that it uses aspell dictionaries. > myspell dictionaries > are a type of ispell dictionaries used by the > OpenOffice.org > project. > > Sincerely > > Alan Horkan > Dublin, Ireland > http://www.online.ie/i/1368496.jpg > ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/translator.pl http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
