CAn someone get in touch with the manufacturer, of the Aakash and find out which version it runs? AFAIK, 2.3+ supports Indic scripts. --~~~~
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunaraoc@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:12 AM, sankarshan foss.mailinglists@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Jessie Wild jwild@wikimedia.org wrote:
For this work, I think it's _imperative_ to get a high-quality, Indic version available for mass-distribution. But while the full, all-encompassing offline version might take 6-7 months to develop,
there are
bite-sized pieces we can concretely work on so we can start at least
pushing
some information out. For example, if we focus on "Geography" first, we could perhaps get a really good "Geography" package set-up and ready to
go
by the next pilot, in order to at least get a package out there -
something
to have a presence within the distributions. The storage space on the
Aakash
tablet and other low-cost devices is minimal, so a limited content
package
is actually fine, in many ways.
The version of Android available on the tablet could be a hindrance to display/render/input of Indic.
Samsung Ace and few other models of smart phones are able to render most
spoken Indic languages. Hopefully, other vendors will also start to support indic soon and Akash tablet will have enough computing power to deal with indic while supporting all other functionality.
Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala
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