Blog post by GerardM on how to tweak your android device to support Indic languages: http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/02/trick-android-to-use-your-langua...
Would be awesome if people here could test it on their device + language combination :)
Yes - if you have an Android phone or know someone who has one, please do that! It takes just two minutes.
If you can't make this app work at all, please email us and we'll try to help.
If you are able to set your language in this app, but the phone shows you squares instead of real letters, go to the shop where you bought the phone and ask how you can get it to support your alphabet. You may be surprised at the result. Even if they won't be able to help you, please email this list and tell us about your experience, for example, what was their explanation for not supporting your languages. Being familiar with how things actually work in India's mobile phone market will help us improve the support for your languages on phones.
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2012/2/23 Yuvi Panda yuvipanda@gmail.com:
Blog post by GerardM on how to tweak your android device to support Indic languages: http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/02/trick-android-to-use-your-langua...
Would be awesome if people here could test it on their device + language combination :)
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I checked for Benagli (bn-BD and bn-IN). When i enabled those locals the Wikipedia app icon text and buttons were displayed in Bengali. But when the EN is enabled it shows the home page of the EN wiki but here it does not show the home page article content. I am saying home article content because the footer license texts are visible .
thanks Nasir Khan Saikat
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Yes - if you have an Android phone or know someone who has one, please do that! It takes just two minutes.
If you can't make this app work at all, please email us and we'll try to help.
If you are able to set your language in this app, but the phone shows you squares instead of real letters, go to the shop where you bought the phone and ask how you can get it to support your alphabet. You may be surprised at the result. Even if they won't be able to help you, please email this list and tell us about your experience, for example, what was their explanation for not supporting your languages. Being familiar with how things actually work in India's mobile phone market will help us improve the support for your languages on phones.
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2012/2/23 Yuvi Panda yuvipanda@gmail.com:
Blog post by GerardM on how to tweak your android device to support Indic languages:
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/02/trick-android-to-use-your-langua...
Would be awesome if people here could test it on their device + language combination :)
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2012/2/23 Nasir Khan nasir8891@gmail.com:
I checked for Benagli (bn-BD and bn-IN). When i enabled those locals the Wikipedia app icon text and buttons were displayed in Bengali.
Thank you very much for testing! Now you can tell your friends that there's a Wikipedia app in Bengali.
But when the EN is enabled it shows the home page of the EN wiki but here it does not show the home page article content.
If your phone's locale is English, you can still read the content of Bengali Wikipedia in the app by tapping the "Read in" button in the menu (পড়া হচ্ছে).
I am saying home article content because the footer license texts are visible .
To create a real mobile homepage, an admin of the Bengali Wikipedia only needs to add a couple of CSS rules to the Main page of the regular Bengali Wikipedia. Here are the instructions: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/Mobile_Gateway#Mobile_homepag...
It should only take about a minute.
Also, could you please translate a few remaining messages in the app's interface to Bengali? There are just 32 short messages left to translate in Bengali. The translation is done here: http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=out-wikip...
If you don't have an account at translatewiki.net, you'll need to create one to translate :)
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
If your phone's locale is English, you can still read the content of Bengali Wikipedia in the app by tapping the "Read in" button in the menu (পড়া হচ্ছে).
On a side note, "Read in" doesn't really translate to পড়া হচ্ছে .
Hi, Sankarshan,
2012/2/23 sankarshan foss.mailinglists@gmail.com:
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
If your phone's locale is English, you can still read the content of Bengali Wikipedia in the app by tapping the "Read in" button in the menu (পড়া হচ্ছে).
On a side note, "Read in" doesn't really translate to পড়া হচ্ছে .
That's what the current translation says. It doesn't have to be perfectly literal, it just has to be useful in context. If you think that it's wrong in this context, can you please correct the translation at the same link? - http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=out-wikip...
And complete the remaining translations, while you're at it :)
Thanks a lot!
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
That's what the current translation says. It doesn't have to be perfectly literal, it just has to be useful in context. If you think that it's wrong in this context, can you please correct the translation at the same link? - http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=out-wikip...
The difference arises in the context of how you would translate/interpret the following sentences in your local language:
- the content is being read in <insert language> and, - you can read the content in <insert language>
And complete the remaining translations, while you're at it :)
I'm not a fan of fly-by-night translation contributions even if it is from a natural speaker of the language. There are various nuances and contexts which translators put into their words and even though "community oriented translation camps" are the flavor of the month, I've more often seen and experienced the need to do clean-ups and reviews at the end of the day. The initial mail was merely a feedback. I'm certain that those who have the privileges to work on the project will figure out what to do.
2012/2/23 sankarshan foss.mailinglists@gmail.com:
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
That's what the current translation says. It doesn't have to be perfectly literal, it just has to be useful in context. If you think that it's wrong in this context, can you please correct the translation at the same link? - http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=out-wikip...
The difference arises in the context of how you would translate/interpret the following sentences in your local language:
- the content is being read in <insert language> and,
- you can read the content in <insert language>
It's the latter. When you approach the translation of this phrase, a documentation message that explains it will appear. I just improved it further.
And complete the remaining translations, while you're at it :)
I'm not a fan of fly-by-night translation contributions even if it is from a natural speaker of the language. There are various nuances and contexts which translators put into their words and even though "community oriented translation camps" are the flavor of the month, I've more often seen and experienced the need to do clean-ups and reviews at the end of the day. The initial mail was merely a feedback. I'm certain that those who have the privileges to work on the project will figure out what to do.
In translatewiki.net you need very little technical privileges. You just open an account, request "translator" right, and that's it.
It's true that translations have to be refined often - both because the original messages (usually in English) are updated, and because translators sometimes make mistakes. Such refinement is going on in translatewiki.net all the time.
We *always* need more people in *all* languages to help translating. To have complete support for a language in Wikimedia projects, thousands of messages need to be translated, and the number is growing every day.
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thanks for the response. As am i am not an administrator of Bengali wiki, i have to knock one of the admins. i contribute to the translatewiki.net and will translate the remaining messages.
thanks nasir
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
2012/2/23 Nasir Khan nasir8891@gmail.com:
I checked for Benagli (bn-BD and bn-IN). When i enabled those locals the Wikipedia app icon text and buttons were displayed in Bengali.
Thank you very much for testing! Now you can tell your friends that there's a Wikipedia app in Bengali.
But when the EN is enabled it shows the home page of the EN wiki but here it does not show the home page article content.
If your phone's locale is English, you can still read the content of Bengali Wikipedia in the app by tapping the "Read in" button in the menu (পড়া হচ্ছে).
I am saying home article content because the footer license texts are visible .
To create a real mobile homepage, an admin of the Bengali Wikipedia only needs to add a couple of CSS rules to the Main page of the regular Bengali Wikipedia. Here are the instructions:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/Mobile_Gateway#Mobile_homepag...
It should only take about a minute.
Also, could you please translate a few remaining messages in the app's interface to Bengali? There are just 32 short messages left to translate in Bengali. The translation is done here:
http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=out-wikip...
If you don't have an account at translatewiki.net, you'll need to create one to translate :)
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I set my android to to language ml.
Only some of the icon in the apps turned Malayalam.
But my News and Weather App turned completely ml. The photo editor and Video Maker app turned completely in Malayalam Language. Wikipedia app turned ml and default page set to ml page.
I dont think i can attach the snapshot here. will try to upload in commons.
But the ml Chillu Problem still exists.
User:Rameshng
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipanda@gmail.com wrote:
Blog post by GerardM on how to tweak your android device to support Indic languages:
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/02/trick-android-to-use-your-langua...
Would be awesome if people here could test it on their device + language combination :)
-- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog
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Oh, cool. If i understand correctly, this means that your phone has a font, but with broken chillus, which is still better than nothing, but to actually make it work and show some Malayalam interface you have to use that app.
I'll be very glad to hear more reports like this!
2012/2/23 Ramesh N G rameshng@gmail.com:
I set my android to to language ml.
Only some of the icon in the apps turned Malayalam.
But my News and Weather App turned completely ml. The photo editor and Video Maker app turned completely in Malayalam Language. Wikipedia app turned ml and default page set to ml page.
I dont think i can attach the snapshot here. will try to upload in commons.
But the ml Chillu Problem still exists.
User:Rameshng
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipanda@gmail.com wrote:
Blog post by GerardM on how to tweak your android device to support Indic languages:
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/02/trick-android-to-use-your-langua...
Would be awesome if people here could test it on their device + language combination :)
-- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog
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All the strings are translated (and fixed) to Bengali. Can anyone tell me when these will be updated to the app?
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Oh, cool. If i understand correctly, this means that your phone has a font, but with broken chillus, which is still better than nothing, but to actually make it work and show some Malayalam interface you have to use that app.
I'll be very glad to hear more reports like this!
2012/2/23 Ramesh N G rameshng@gmail.com:
I set my android to to language ml.
Only some of the icon in the apps turned Malayalam.
But my News and Weather App turned completely ml. The photo editor and Video Maker app turned completely in Malayalam Language. Wikipedia app turned ml and default page set to ml page.
I dont think i can attach the snapshot here. will try to upload in
commons.
But the ml Chillu Problem still exists.
User:Rameshng
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipanda@gmail.com wrote:
Blog post by GerardM on how to tweak your android device to support Indic languages:
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/02/trick-android-to-use-your-langua...
Would be awesome if people here could test it on their device + language combination :)
-- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog
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2012/2/23 Nasir Khan nasir8891@gmail.com:
All the strings are translated (and fixed) to Bengali. Can anyone tell me when these will be updated to the app?
Thank you very much.
Version 1.1 of the app is going to be released soon and the new translations will be there.
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I have some snapshot uplaoded to commons.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:News_app_in_ml_in_android_using_local...
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ml_new_chillu_problem_while_using_loc...
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_andoid_app_menu_in_ml_using...
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photo_editor_andoid_app_in_ml_using_l...
User:Rameshng
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Oh, cool. If i understand correctly, this means that your phone has a font, but with broken chillus, which is still better than nothing, but to actually make it work and show some Malayalam interface you have to use that app.
I'll be very glad to hear more reports like this!
2012/2/23 Ramesh N G rameshng@gmail.com:
I set my android to to language ml.
Only some of the icon in the apps turned Malayalam.
But my News and Weather App turned completely ml. The photo editor and Video Maker app turned completely in Malayalam Language. Wikipedia app turned ml and default page set to ml page.
I dont think i can attach the snapshot here. will try to upload in
commons.
But the ml Chillu Problem still exists.
User:Rameshng
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipanda@gmail.com wrote:
Blog post by GerardM on how to tweak your android device to support Indic languages:
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/02/trick-android-to-use-your-langua...
Would be awesome if people here could test it on their device + language combination :)
-- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog
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