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Series of Linux localizations coming out of Asia

Posted by timothy on from the hmmm-there-are-a-lot-of-people-there dept.

Imran William Smith writes "The Asian Open Source Centre is reporting a series of recent successes in translating Linux to Asian languages, where there are also many complex font issues to be solved. This site has a wealth of information about open source and free software activity in Asia."

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  1. not as promising as it appears by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes it is good to see more languages supported, but in this world software = English. The mass of programmers largely either live in English speaking countries, or countries like Germany and Scandinavia which are switching over to English. The attitude towards languages in software development is "learn English, tough".
    Multilingualism is barely even an afterthought in software development.