Hoi,<br>Recently the Unicode consortium published its latest standard. Among them where additions to the Devangari script. As I understand it, the new glyphs are technically supported in MediaWiki.. MediaWiki does not care; it just stores the values. I KNOW because I have been told that there are issues with the technical support of your languages in MediaWiki. It is very much needed to find the best possible fonts. At the same time I urge you all to publish all the known issues for your languages at the language_issues page on Meta.<br>
<br>You can also help yourself by following the example that exists for Telugu and provide us with a sorted list of all the characters for you language. This will then be inserted in the "advanced toolbar" of the Usability Initiative. A list for Devangari, Tamil, Kannada ... would be most welcome !!<br>
<br>As I published on all Wikipedias, we REALLY want to know if there are cultural aspects in MediaWiki that make it less usable. There are two parts to this question; obviously a lack of localisation will make the software unusable. However, it is not a given that even with the best localisation there are no issues left. Please help yourself by localising the "Usability Initiative" software once you finished the "most wanted" messages. Please report all the issues that are left at the usability_issues page on Meta.<br>
Thanks,<br> GerardM<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/10/5 Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mahitgar@yahoo.co.in">mahitgar@yahoo.co.in</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 4/10/09, Vinod <i><<a href="mailto:vinod@novatium.com" target="_blank">vinod@novatium.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">
<br>From: Vinod <<a href="mailto:vinod@novatium.com" target="_blank">vinod@novatium.com</a>><br>Subject: FW: my querry has remained unanswered for long<br>To: <a href="mailto:mahitgar@yahoo.co.in" target="_blank">mahitgar@yahoo.co.in</a><br>
Date: Sunday, 4 October, 2009, 3:53 PM<br><br><div>
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<p><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-IN">Dear Mahitgar,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;" lang="EN-IN">Thanks for you interest in Nova netPC. Our product </span><span style="color: black;">supports unicode fonts for regional languages. We
have tested it with Hindi and Devanagiri keyboard. We will have it in our
products in the coming two weeks. The display does support Indian fonts.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: black;">Please do get back to me in case
you have queries.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: black;">Regards</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Vinod</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;" lang="EN-IN"></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Mahitgar from
Marathi Wikipedia [mailto:<a href="mailto:mahitgar@yahoo.co.in" target="_blank">mahitgar@yahoo.co.in</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> 02 October 2009 13:33<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:info@novatium.com" target="_blank">info@novatium.com</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:singapore@novatium.com" target="_blank">singapore@novatium.com</a>; <a href="mailto:novasales@novatium.com" target="_blank">novasales@novatium.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> my querry has remained unanswered for long</span></p>
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--- On <b>Sun, 19/7/09, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia <i><<a href="mailto:mahitgar@yahoo.co.in" target="_blank">mahitgar@yahoo.co.in</a>></i></b>
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From: Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia <mahitgar@yahoo..<a href="http://co.in" target="_blank">co.in</a>><br>
Subject: query about computing in Indian languages on Novanet PC<br>
To: <a href="mailto:info@novatium.com" target="_blank">info@novatium.com</a><br>
Date: Sunday, 19 July, 2009, 1:12 PM</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dear Sirs/Madam<br>
query about computing in Indian languages on Novanet PC<br>
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Can some one find out about <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.novatium.com/novanetpc.htm" target="_blank">novanetPC</a> and its compatibility to use Unicode
based fonts for Indian languages including that of Tamil Devnagari etc keep
us posted if anybody knows any limitations on this front .<br>
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Thanks and Regards<br>
Mahitgar <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.novatium.com/novanetpc.htm" target="_blank"> </a><br>
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