'Understanding user needs the key to localisation'
Dwayne Bailey lives in Pretoria and comes from Cape Town, South Africa. In the world of free and open source software, he is well known for preaching the localisation gospel. Here he talks to Frederick Noronha about getting started with localisation.
"Localisation is everything that makes the computer work for you in your locale (country and language)," says Bailey. "Translating the computer interfaces is by far the biggest task and ongoing, but it is not the complete picture. Keyboards, fonts, locales, date systems and rendering are all part of localisation," he says.
Bailey has been involved with a major translation project in South Africa. "At Translate.org.za we're localising free and open source software into all 11 South African languages. One is English. It's quite an easy one (smiles). The others are Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, Venda, Tsonga, Tswana, Siswati, Northern Sotho, Southern Sotho, Ndebele."
But this time, at Africa Source 2, we focussed on another issue: What's the best route for a small-to-medium language to take, if it wants to enter the world of computing?
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