Hello Don,
On 8/27/06, Don Osborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
No, our work is not related to old Hikaadiye software.Hi Jama and thank you for this information. Is your work related at all to the old Somali wordprocessor by SomiTek called "Hikaadiye"?
I see from the description that it substitutes digraphs for 3 letters not used in Somali transcription but also makes those same letters available with AltGr + those same keys.
Was this layout created with MSKLC? If the layout is intended as a wider standard it could also be produced in a Keyman (Tavultesoft) keyboard.
Yes, I have created it with MSKLC. The reason of my chose was simply not to purchase tavultesoft software though there is a free version. This is a very first proposal, and if the idea gets some interest, in fact I want to rewrite it and for that reason make it standard using keyman. Thankx for the hint.
Are you aware of any efforts to localize software in Somali, such as OpenOffice or MS Office? The Hikaadiye wordprocessor is by now rather old and I don't think it ever was updated.
We are working instead on several interrelated projects on localizing free software and on developing of the Somali language in IT. The central issue is to collect accurate wordlisf for ispell and other software that use it as spelling checker. A short article that describe how I collected these words, and the workflow chart to approve correct spelling words is here:
The word harvester that collects somali words is based on google api to choose randomly a Somali websites and it collects new words. There is a group of volunteers that receive a notification email whenever a new word is seen more than 50 times in the websites, which is presumably considered a correct word in spelling; a volunteer picks us the word and verify if it is correct. And so the word becomes officially in the database of the word list. We are close to our first target that is 100,000 corrected words.
Related to this one, there is free online spelling checker at:
http://www.redsea-online.com/som_spell
We will release by the end of November Ubbo, a freeware Somali word processor that include our spelling checker that can run on old and less equipped (memory/disc space) computers.
We have other projects that may not be of particular interest for this list. Among them a limited domain text to speech application in somali based festival is up coming within a couple of weeks, and we have our in plans to release a freeware CAT application that use our somali wordlist and translates text somali to english and english to somali
Regards, Jama
__._,_.___Don Osborn
PanAfrican Localisation project
From: AfricanLanguages@yahoogroups.com [mailto: AfricanLanguages@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jama Jama Musse
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 5:35 AM
To: AfricanLanguages@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [AfricanLanguages] Prosposal of Somali key layout
I am finalizing an early draft of proposal to adopt a custom key layout for Somali, based on QWERTY keyboard. It is an early draft, and I would like to hear your comments. I am not posting the file as it is big size to be posted on yahoogroups, so please get a PDF file from http://www.redsea-online.com/soomaali
Regards, Jama.
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