> Wire localised software will help no doubt, but with the case of the > world wide web, > how much? considering that the biggest percentage of the content on the > web is written > in English.
Wrong my Brother. Recent statistics indicate Chinese has overtaken English. > Unless we look towards localising tools such as babelfish, > translating > mozilla into a local language may not be such a helpful thing. Chris, you bring in the next big step in the chain and that is the content aspect. Just like in any evolutionary process, what is needed usually is a catalyst that will make the people realise that IT IS POSSIBLE. There are very many people who have confessed that they never knew that software would be in a local language. Can you believe? Borrowing a cue from the FM stations in Uganda, the web is growing every day but as we seek online presence, there will be a need to start appealing to the niche markets that we serve e.g MTN Uganda could have a Luganda or Luo version of its website since its target are Ugandans, Ghana Telecom could have a Twi version too and so on and so forth. It becomes a spiralling effect. It is hard to see it now but just like the way FM stations are appealing to all sorts of segmentations in the market including along language lines, the web is bound to end up there too. I just hope that kym.net will still have the archives to refer back to this prophecy :) Wire > CN >> >> Otherwise its good to always share such thoughts. >> >> Wire >> >> >> > >> > (this does not in any way mean i dont like Wire's efforts on > Mozilla..) >> > ;-) its just that even at school, i remember baganda students used to > get >> > more marks in English than Luganda. >> > >> > ernest. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
