On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Sean DALY <[email protected]> wrote: > It's an excellent point; after all, Mingoville > http://www.mingoville.com/ based in Denmark I believe claims over 1 > million users, 100+ activities for children to practice English. > > But there's another facet: dominant languages such as English, > Spanish, French, put pressure on minority languages. Sugar has a role > to play supporting many languages, not just in the interface, but in > content. There have been suggestions in the past that we position > Sugar as a great way to learn English, and indeed it can be > (especially in a connected environment), but I feel English should not > be privileged over local languages. >
FWIW, I have a Bengali ebook with nonsense rhymes in Bengali as a EPUB (I had hacked it together to demonstrate that Read can handle fonts embedded in EPUB files - but the fonts need to be installed in the system to render the Table of Content properly). If you want, I can polish it up and put it up somewhere by the end of this week for inclusion in Blueberry. I used Sigil[1], a Free/Open Source tool to create the EPUB file. Thanks, Sayamindu [1] http://code.google.com/p/sigil/ -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
