Subject: Fw: FUEL & Style Guide for Odia.
Hello,
FUEL - frequently used entries for localization -
is basically a set of terms used for computer work in any particular
language. Efforts are on among the open source workers to standardise these
terms to maintain uniformity. Results of the work in Odia, carried out mostly at
RedHat, is attached. That for Hindi is available at https://fedorahosted.org/fuel/wiki/fuel-hindi .
As far as Odia is concerned different
vendors/developers have come out with their versions of many products. Two major
examples are Microsoft's Windows 7 / Office 2010 and Fedora Linux. Modular's
Ankur Indian Laguage Office Suite also has tried to present Odia interface for
all the applications included. However, the variations are wide and Odia
interfaces are far from being smooth. All these are available with
us if anyone wants to take a look. We are preparing some notes on these.
Microsoft's style guide is at
Personally, I have always felt the need for a
dedicated group taking up this work on a long term and continuous basis. But we
have not been able to devote that time and energy in this direction. Even now we
are very short of manpower and are rather pressed with our work on the
digitization of Odia periodicals. We hope to be in a better position after April
2012. In the meantime we can use any help available in this
direction.
Manoj, whose mail is appended below, has been
planning for a workshop on the subject as detailed below. We feel that it should
be taken up seriously as a starting point for a concerted effort over a
period of at least one year, rather than achieving definite results during
the workshop. We should also look at some general problems faced in the
Odia language computing activity. Some of these are outlined in the old notes
attached with this mail. Windows issues will also have to be addressed in some
way.
Please consider the matter and air your views as to
the best way to go about this. Also please try to bring this to the notice of
others. If everyone feels that we should get together on January 26-27, we can
make arrangements here at Srujanika or any other suitable
place.
We will make a wider announcement after the event
is fixed up.
Looking forward to hearing from all
soon.
With best wishes,
Nikhil
Nikhil Mohan Pattnaik,
"Srujanika", 101
Saraswati Kunja,
Near Jagamara Bazar, PO: Khandagiri,
Bhubaneswar
751030
Orissa
Tel: 0674-2350664 /
2350640
(Srujanika - A Society for Research and Innovation in
Science, Education and Development)
PS: Jitendra babu - can we rope in Prafulla babu
(Tripathy) for this? Would you please give a thought to the lucidity of the
terms?
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: FUEL & Style Guide for Odia.
Dear Nikhil
Sir,
Happy New Year to you and Srujanika team.
Sending you the fuel Odia .pdf
file in attachment. And i'm preparing the FUEL Style Guide for Odia. I'll send
that to you for verification after completing.
I already spoke to Gora bhai
and Arun (working in Microsoft, Hyderabad) about the event. They will come to
bbsr for two days to attend this event.
Only we need one or two Linguist
people during the evaluation process. Please let me know if you have any
contacts.
We are planning to have it on January last week, probably on 26 th
& 27 th.
Please let me know if it is possible for you on 26 th &
27th. Else let us know your convenient time.
Also i'm relying on you about
the venue where we can sit together for the discussion.
Thanks &
Regards!
Manoj