2006: Year in Review / Revue de l'Année / Ano em Revista

Internationalisation, international initiatives & Africa

• Unicode 5.0 released
  • N'ko is included (Tifinagh was already in)
  • Some new characters
• New initiative to favor development of Wikipedia editions in African languages

Continent

• 2006 was the "Year of African Languages"

Countries / Pays / Pais

Projects

• PanAfrican Localisation project
  • Expanded the PanAfriL10n wiki as major part of project website
  • Created 3 new lists for discussion of localisation (with translation feature)
    • PAL-en (English working language) http://lists.panafril10n.org/mailman/listinfo/pal-en
    • PAL-fr (français, langue du travail) http://lists.panafril10n.org/mailman/listinfo/pal-fr
    • PAL-pt (português, língua de trabalho) http://lists.panafril10n.org/mailman/listinfo/pal-pt
  • Seminar on localisation held at World Bank, June 2006
• Translate.org.za
  • Won an award for localisation
• Alberto Escudero-Pascual and Louise Berthilson developed an online tool to facilitate compiling locale data
  • LocaleGEN 1.6 http://www.it46.se/localegen/
  • A number of locales were compiled and submitted thanks to this effort

Workshops

• Africa Source II, Kalangala, Uganda, January 2006 (not specifically on localisation, but dealt with FOSS in Africa)

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