Scrabble implementation in arabic http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/details/arabic/
other foreign language tilesets http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/index.html#foreignscrab However, i am yet to find any implementation of scrabble in Hindi. I think Hindi would be a too complicated to implement but would ask some hindi professors i know for confirmations. On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:36:14PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Aditya Vishwakarma > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I am Aditya Vishwakarma. An Information Technology student at NSIT, > Delhi. > > > > > > > > I am working on making a Scrabble game as a GSoC project called > Wordsmith. > > > > The wiki page is located here - > > > > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wordsmith(scrabble)<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wordsmith%28scrabble%29> > > > > > > Does Scrabble exist in Hindi or any other language of India? > > > > Sure. > > > > Either you place one syllable per square or separate the consonants and > vowels > > into disjoint glyphs (probably looks funny but remains readable). > > That sounds like you're making it up, since you say "probably looks > funny". You couldn't make a set with enough tiles to hold the several > hundred possible syllables, and the phonology doesn't work to combine > random syllables into words of any length. Hindi in separated letters > would look more than funny. > > होली would end up looking like ह ो ल ी, or > ह > ो > ल > ी > > I'm asking whether anybody has _seen_ Scrabble in an Indian language. > > > > I know > > > how we could support Scrabble in any linear alphabetic writing such > as > > > Cyrillic alphabet, but I have trouble imagining it in Arabic, > Chinese, > > > Amharic, or Japanese kana. > > > > I don't know what you would do with Chinese and Japanese kana. > > -- > Edward Cherlin > End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business > http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ > "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Chairman, CSI NSIT Students Branch | http://societies.nsitonline.in/csi Site Administrator | NSITonline Webteam | http://www.nsitonline.in Undergraduate Student, IT Department NSIT, Delhi University, India Contact:+91 9899232177 skype id : aditya.vishwakarma
_______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
