Afrikaans localisation 2
This is a test of a table for recording information on localisation progress for Afrikaans. Another version is presented at AfrikaansLocalisation.
| Afrikaans localisation progress | |
| Basics / éléments de base | |
| Character set / jeu de caractères | Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) is commonly used |
| Fonts / Polices | Standard Latin fonts include the necessary characters. |
| Encoding conversion utility | |
| Collation sequence | |
| Interface Terminology | Yes |
| Locale | Yes, in glibc, Windows, CLDR & OpenOffice (details?) |
| Keyboards / Claviers | |
| Standard layout / disposition | ? |
| Driver / pilote |
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| Physical | |
| Language resources / Ressources en langues | |
| Lexicon | Kuberwoordeboek (Cyber dictionary) (2007), Termshare terminology by Translate.org.za http://translate.org.za/content/view/1782/82/lang,af/ |
| Thesaurus | |
| Text corpus | Wikipedia contains over 2 million words at the start of 2007 |
| Utilities & software / Utilités et logiciels | |
| Normalization & sorting utility | |
| Find/replace utility | |
| Wordprocessor | |
| Office suite |
The OpenOffice.org suite of software applications has been localized in Afrikaans by Translate.org.za: http://translate.org.za/content/view/17/54/ Microsoft has localised MSOffice in Afrikaans in a LIP package:
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| Web browser | Firefox 1.5.0.11 has been localised by Translate.org.za: http://translate.org.za/content/view/1611/54/
Opera? is available in Afrikaans: http://www.opera.com/download/languagefiles/(approve sites) |
| E-mail client | Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 has been localised by Translate.org.za: http://translate.org.za/content/view/1612/54/ |
| Operating system |
Microsoft has localised Windows XP in Afrikaans in a LIP package: Windows® XP Afrikaanse Taalpakket via http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/Browse.aspx?displaylang=af&categoryid=7 |
| Language technology / Technologie de langue | |
| Spell checker | Spell checkers for OpenOffice.org and the Mozilla applications: http://translate.org.za/content/view/1610/54/lang,af/
Aspell and Ispell checkers are commonly available in Linux distributions. Proprietary spell checker for Microsoft Office: http://spel.co.za/(approve sites) |
| Grammar checker | |
| Text-to-speech | Espeak has support for reading Afrikaans |
| Speech recognition | |
| Machine translation | Apertium? has preliminary infrastructure in place for English-Afrikaans and Afrikaans-English translation |
| OCR system | |
| Other |
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| Mobile, handheld devices / | |
| Keypad (phone) | |
| Interface terminology | |
| Mobile/PDA fonts | |
| Predictive text | Certain Nokia models (like 6020) has predictive text ability for Afrikaans |