Re: [l10n-dev] Tagalog Dictionary

[Clytie Siddall]

On 12/09/2007, at 5:57 PM, Girard Aquino wrote:

Hi. this is the first time ever that i subscribed to a mailing list, so pardon any ethical considerations i fail to meet.

Mabuhay ! Girard, welcome to OpenOffice.org! :)

The "Be polite, be helpful" rule from the Linuxchix lists is pretty safe on all project lists. And everyone here has questions.

I discovered OOo after reformatting my notebook and finding out that i

it, and, recommending it, ever since.

didn't have a productivity suite (it was second hand), i've been loving

Good, good... :D

i'm an end-user... no IT knowledge whatsoever (psychologist), except setting up and fixing some settings in ubuntu (mostly problems of my own doing). most recently, the installation of tl_PH.dic on fiesty fawn.

User experience is how we find out what needs fixing, and what works. We're all users. :)

i got it working now, but under a different language name (English South Africa), as noted in issues 76233, 75782, and the thread i had posted in the forums (lost track of the sources already). but i'm glad that it's coming out in 2.3 (correct me if i'm wrong) i subscribed to this mailing list after being emailed, soon after replying to one of the issues above. i am interested in further development of the tagalog dictionary - well the only contribution i could make is to include more words that are not currently included in the .dic file. i tried to add words manually by editing the .dic file, but realized that this would be too cumbersome when including long lists of tagalog words (only tried it once... lol)

Adding to and refining a dictionary's word list is a really important task.

thanks and may OOo further spread the love... :)

...and ODF be the declared the ISO standard already.

one other complication regarding the tagalog language are hyphenated words (read one thread about this already... i'll search again) which should be considered as one word: "pag-aaral" (education or studying) should be checked as one word and not "pag" and then "aaral" i'm probably missing out on previous discussions about the topic, but i will try to catch up as much as i can. i hope someone could direct me on how to contribute to the expanding of the tl_PH vocabulary. i am not familiar about how development in IT goes about, so pardon me once more.

You won't get any argument against that here. ;)





Eric, Girard wants to help with Tagalog. :)


http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN

[1] http://native-lang.openoffice.org/
[2] http://l10n.openoffice.org/
[3] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Languages

Have you had a look at the Native-Language Confederation [1] and L10N [2] project pages? They help fill in the background to our work at OpenOffice.org. Regarding Tagalog specifically, our current list of language projects [3] doesn't seem to include Tagalog. I've copied this email to Eric Pareja, Tagalog language team leader in some other projects. He will know its status in OpenOffice.org, and how you can best help with it. from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)

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