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Internet Solutionswww.codesyntax.com
Free software for languages big and small: multilingual
openness
Luistxo Fernandez
Bilbo 2011.11.12
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15 years ago
A personal story. 3 types decide to work in the internet. We
happen to be bilingual
Business case: Well, bilingual sites will be needed locally;
multilingual sites will be needed globally.
We'll learn how to do it right, we'll become rich.
Not rich yet, but hey, it was a good plan
Web platforms in the year 1999 were nor really adapted to
multilingualism, really
There was a niche... there was really work to do.
Platforms had to be transformed, tinkered, changed from the
inside...
It had to be free software.
Free software was the obvious choice
Code had to be tinkered and improved, you needed access to the
tools to change them and make them work multilingually
And the free software community had already its own tools, its
own metodology: GNU Gettext
Choices (back at the times...)
Python.
Zope.
A way to adapt the GNU Gettext methodology into Python,
Localizer, a creation by a web-programmer in a university (Juan
David Ibez, of Universitat Jaume I, Castell).
Choices (back at the times...)
Today.
Python.
Today.
Python.
All we learned about i18n & l10n, locales, unicode, .po
files...
Ad-hoc solutions not so necessary(Plone and Django, the
platforms we use today are, like all decent modern day tools, well
adapted to i18n)
We still friends with JD Ibez, a brilliant programmer
Today. Django.
Today. Django. Any Django install.
All we learned. The things we did.
We fought the Unicode errors...
Blogging platforms in Basque...
The particular needs of multilingual CMSs...
As Plone or Django rose, the localised Basque versions of those
platforms...
From multilingual to... Multisite, multicountry
Plone, and other open source CMS are prepared to manage a
situationlike this one.
But you need the know-how.
Meanwhile, as i18n advanced in web development thanks to free
software...
Meanwhile, as i18n advanced in web development thanks to free
software...
Ubuntu is wonderful. Enjoying Ubuntu in Basque is great.
As a working environment.
As the family OS at home.
However, as i18n advanced in web development thanks to free
software...
Web ecosystems rose: Google, Facebook, Twitter
Basque and many other languageshave a partial presence
there...
Mixed feelings: collective translating (work for them for
free)
no sharing of the strings...
the importance of having those in your language
However, as i18n advanced in web development thanks to free
software...
Mobile platforms, unclear situation
iOS closed to small languages, and Apple a clearly hostile
company to us.
Android is free, and Android localisation attempts have been
made by the community... but, distribution and control issues
complicate the matter
Google just released Basque within Lollipop, yet...
SoLoMo
Social Local Mobile
An extra lesson:
It's not about the menu, it's about the food
An extra lesson:
It's not about the menu, it's about the food
A conversation in Facebook in Yucatec (interface in Basque)
It's not about the menu, it's about the food
Big languages take food for granted.
Small languages... tricky. Social interaction easier in some
networks than in others.
Efforts are announced, but language death is a fact for many
languages...
Are there memes in your language?
Meme
'A meme (/mim/; meem)[1] is "an idea, behavior, or style that
spreads from person to person within a culture."[2] A meme acts as
a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can
be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech,
gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena'
A term coined by Richard Dawkins.
Yep. It does have a serious meaning, but memes are also
this....
Meme
when they give me notice of 'needed changes' one day before the
report/project must be delivered
Basque memes are alive!
what the Basques feel when they see the Catalans lead the
way
Basque memes are alive!
'impossible Basque compact verbs meme': dizerdit, datsegit,
dalovit, narruskioke...
Not easy to grasp. Language knowledge level (also Spanish, in
many cases) and experience with Twitter humour
Social and mobile interaction: key issues for language
reproduction.
These things depend more on
The big powers of the Internet: Google, Facebook, Twitter
Increasingly, mobile experience
Do these things depend less on free software?
In the SoLoMo environment...
And yet,
we must try
Twitter can't tell Basque from Indonesian
But Langid can.
And with Langid, and more, you may build things
And with Langid, and more, you may build things
Trending topic detection, twitter user rankings, automated
aggregation of news...
Trending topic detection, twitter user rankings, automated
aggregation of news...
...with languages big & small
Eskerrik asko
Luistxo Fernandez - [email protected]/luistxo
- http://www.codesyntax.com
