Good idea -- though I have no links with anyone who could initiate such an endeavour. Any leads welcome. I'd put in a (possibly heretical) plea against "non-standard" software. The big advantage of Microsoft's products is that just about everyone uses them, so sharing files is easy. So it's a question of building interfaces (help files, commands, menus, spellcheckers, etc.) that work with existing software rather than, say, a completely new word processor. For Indonesian, Mike Bordt has an extremely useful spellchecker that works within Microsoft Word. It's available for free at http://mbordt.webjump.com/lang1.htm. I've shared this with many Indonesian colleagues, and it deserves far wider recognition. Best wishes Paul Mundy development communication specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netcologne.de/~nc-mundypa DevArt: copyright-free artwork for development http://www.geocities.com/thetropics/cove/1003 On 28 March, Hanno Fietz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Wouldn�t it be possible to initiate/encourage open-source software >development to meet this demand? Open-source software doesn't have to pay >for large corporations and is therefore much cheaper or even free. I could >imagine there would be some software developers capable of Indonesian or >other languages who would be willing to take the challenge and write those >interfaces. Isn't there any local programmers interested in those problems? >I don't know about the situation, of course, so I'm just speculating, but I >would be glad to hear comments from people who are more familiar with such >matters. > ------------ ***GKD is an initiative of the Global Knowledge Partnership*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.globalknowledge.org>
