Actually, schools and government agencies use bokmål and nynorsk on alternate years, but must answer correspondence with which ever one was used by the sender. So having just one or the other is not an option, both must be there to even be considered.
The Sami languages can be described as belonging to one of three groups, east, north, and south, each with a different set of letters, vocabulary, grammar and syntax. However, there are between 11 and 19 subgroups, depending on who you ask.
South Sami can get by with ISO Latin-1. North Sami uses ISO Latin-1 plus 7 glyphs from central Europe. East Sami used to use a set similar to North, but during the Soviet era acquired Cyrillic.
So skolelinux is going to beat a lot of the internationalization issues with a conveniently small testbed.
Sweden has worked hard to squander the technology lead they used to have in the 70's, 80's and even the early 90's. Press releases like this just rub salt in the wound. What's next? An ad for Bredbandbolaget or Framfab?
Lets see how long they use it until they dump it like Nokia did.
Not that long. In the late 1990's every Swede and his dog had a start up or two. The idea was rarely to get a product to market, but instead to float an image long enough to get bought out by a bigger fish.
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Microsoft has $40B in the bank and is still making money like they have a license to print it.
Where do people keep getting this figure from, alt.folklore.urban? Show me the money or quote a reliable source.The Sami languages can be described as belonging to one of three groups, east, north, and south, each with a different set of letters, vocabulary, grammar and syntax. However, there are between 11 and 19 subgroups, depending on who you ask. South Sami can get by with ISO Latin-1. North Sami uses ISO Latin-1 plus 7 glyphs from central Europe. East Sami used to use a set similar to North, but during the Soviet era acquired Cyrillic.
So skolelinux is going to beat a lot of the internationalization issues with a conveniently small testbed.
However, it is the oldest written version we still have.
See also the work at the University of Kentucky in the digitization and restoration of the manuscript.
Lets see how long they use it until they dump it like Nokia did.
Not that long. In the late 1990's every Swede and his dog had a start up or two. The idea was rarely to get a product to market, but instead to float an image long enough to get bought out by a bigger fish.