"OPEN SOURCE ARMENIA" UITE\OSA (www.opensourcearmenia.com) project is dedicated to developing large international community of IT professionals. It has been founded in 2002 by an international group of IT business professionals. It is supported by a pool of international private, public and academic institutions and it is run by the UITE (Union of IT Enterprise of Armenia).
Since its foundation it has developed a large number of projects. Among successfully fulfilled projects is the localization of OpenOffice.org in Armenia. According to ISO we have used "hy" as a language code and "AM" as a country code. As a matter of fact Windows doesn't have 8-bit support for Armenian language and that is why we have used Unicode (UTF-8) encoding. We have already completed OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 for Windows and OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 for Linux. Besides the Interface localization we have developed the Armenian language support for MySpell Spell Checker enlarging MySpell module. We have added the Armenian language punctuation, autocorrection and autocompletion support to the text editor. Currently, the Open Source Armenia team is localizing Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird throughout the country.
