Aboriginal Languages Now Easier on the Web 30
orkz writes "The BBC reports that Canada's Inuit can now publish to the web in their native language of Inuktitut, as well as more easily view websites that contain their syllabic font, thanks to a system a developed by a unique ASP, Web Networks that provides services to socially committed organizations."
Sounds great! (Score:1, Flamebait)
Ouch.. just kidding.. err I'm clutured. I promise.
Love,
Zaq
Re:Sounds great! (Score:1, Troll)
Re:Sounds great! (Score:3, Interesting)
There are a million and one non-profit orgs just like this one that use your tax money. It's a fact of life. If you don't like it, move to Rawanda.
Second, since I'm Canadian.. these are my tax dollars too.
Love,
Zaq
P.S. Since you are probably 12 years old, this is all a moot point.
Re:Sounds great! (Score:2)
If you want to support this with your own money/time, great for you. I am sick of the government spending money on things that have little/no effect on the populace.
PS Since you are probably in your 30's or 40's you are probably used to haveing the government spend
Re:Sounds great! (Score:2)
Re:Sounds great! (Score:2)
Typical Canadian attitide: "I'm being robbed blind, so I'll be damned if you aren't as well."
How long will it be before Canadians realize just how badly their government is robbing and murdering (taking tax $ for "healthcare" and then not providing it in life and death situations despite more having been paid in taxes that the cost to pay for lifesaving surgery required) them?
Canadian culture is all about identifying with an impoverished group u
Re:Sounds great! (Score:1)
Re:Sounds great! (Score:2)
Saw a comical map of U.S.A. and Canada with the post-election democratic States combined with Canada to form the "United States of Canada", and the (religeous right) republican areas labeled "Jesusland".
Re:Sounds great! (Score:1)
Re:Sounds great! (Score:2)
However, as of late, Republicans have lost all sense of small government and fiscal restraing, while moving dangerously toward a theocracy.
I'dve preferred a Democrat President just to move the Administration at odds with the House and Senate and provide some room for reflection (Stalemated governments do little good, but can't do much bad either).
Of course, I can't vote in U.S. ele
its nice to see... (Score:1)
This is? (Score:3, Insightful)
Good for the Inuit, though! I'm curious to see if they can really implement Inuktitut as the language of government in Nunavut.
Re:This is? (Score:4, Interesting)
Doesn't seem like a huge innovation, but it's a great thing for the intuit people. The large advances for people seem to be taking something that's developed and applying it in a new way. Good work.
Re:This is? (Score:2)
Re:This is? (Score:2)
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But this is in Unicode already (Score:2)
Where's the magic? The translation to graphics on the fly for people with old browers?
Re:But this is in Unicode already (Score:4, Interesting)
That's part of what was in the article. The way they're doing it almost regardless of the browser they're using or how old the machine is.
Ummm...So what? (Score:4, Informative)
Also how much do these guys know about character sets? The Attavik website uses "latin1" (a non existent charset--should be "ISO-8859-1"--and why not UTF-8 so they don't need images) and is content-free giving no one any real idea what they do. From what it says I think they sell proprietary software to Inuktitut organisations (that they probs don't need) though.
Also, the companies homepage [web.net] (which sucks) doesn't have a charset (and is not UTF-8/ASCII) [w3.org] and is very invalid even when you do work the charset out [w3.org].
Living Dictionary (Score:2, Interesting)
Australian indigenous languages falling fast... (Score:2)
Arabunna (no longer spoken, but originating north of Marree, in South Australia) has been preserved - as best as a non-indigenous research-educator can do - to date, in a massive loose-leaf binder (published, in 2004, by SA's Education Dep't), soon to be supplemented with an audio CD of people reading and/or speaking this language.
In the Marree Aboriginal School, we heard kids being encouraged to sing non-indigenous kids
Are they sure thats Inuktitut? (Score:2)
Even old browsers can do this. (Score:1)
trueDoc is proprietary (Score:2)
The TrueDoc technology involves DRM to "prevent users from stealing your fonts". I imagine the software is proprietary, and not open source compatible. This must be one of those bits of proprietary software that Netscape ripped out before releasing the Navigator source code.
Doug Moen
It's about time... (Score:2)
OK...that's nice, but... (Score:2)