True that. While Hindi and Tamil have always been at an advantage due
to them being the first two Indic languages to be embraced by the tech
industry, AFAIK, the sms typed on these phones don't conform to
Unicode standards. Atleast not on Nokia models.
On 12/19/11, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa.com(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
As I understand, many vendors do support Indic languages (at least one
of them like Hindi/Tamil). What we require is to find out the right
device that supports Indic and suits our needs.
My 2.5 year old dual SIM phone from FLY has Hindi support. Can show
all the menus in Hindi, can send/receive SMS in Hindi.
My earlier Nokia phone (purchased about 6 years back) also had Hindi
support.
Some of the low cost printers-inkjet, laser ones also have Indic
language support in their software as well as manuals.
Regards
-Sudhanwa
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi all,
It was a almost a unimaginable surprise when I heard a Samsung camera has
a
Tamil interface! See pic[1]. It is important milestone when Indic is
starting to reach beyond computers, mobiles. While this also reinforces
the
Indic growth theory(not just wikimedia in non-profit space, even for
business in for-profit space), it also means more work for those who are
working on Indic space (translation, content creation,technology). Their
work will directly or indirectly reach more people outside wikimedia
projects. Projects like wiktionary will be source for many languages which
might not have any other largest source of vocabulary elsewhere. I would
not
be surprised if in future translations for real world things are done
openly
through projects like translatewiki :)
[1]
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tamil_interface_camera-suya_prakash-…
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