Pubbl/distr/stampa	London : , : Oxford University Press, , 1928-
Soggetto topico	African languages Ethnology Research Langues africaines African Studies Civilization Etnografie Culture africaine Langue africaine Société SOCIAL CONDITIONS POLITICAL CONDITIONS ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Soggetto genere / forma	Periodical Periodicals. Périodique électronique (Descripteur de forme) Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme)
ISSN	1750-0184
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Periodico
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNISA-996203649303316

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Göteborg, : Dept. of Oriental and African Languages, Göteborg University, 2001-
Soggetto topico	African languages Oriental languages 18.00 languages in general Talen Taalkunde
Soggetto genere / forma	Periodicals.
Classificazione	18.00
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Periodico
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Altri titoli varianti	Göteborg working papers on Asian and African languages and literatures
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910146454803321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	London, : School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource
Disciplina	496/.05
Collana	Collected papers in Oriental and African studies
Soggetto topico	African languages
Soggetto genere / forma	Periodicals.
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Periodico
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910879101403321

Autore	Osborn Donald Zhang
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Ottawa, : International Development Research Centre, 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (167 p.)
Disciplina	496.0285
Soggetto topico	African languages Computational linguistics
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-57812-X 9786612578120 1-55250-473-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	1. Introduction. 2. Background. Importance of African languages and implications for ICT. What is localisation? Overlapping regional contexts: localisation where? Who localises? What is the current state of localisation across the African region? -- 3. Introducing 'localisation ecology.' An ecological perspective on the environment for localisation. The PLETES model. Dynamic complexes within localisation ecology. Relevance to questions of ICT and localisation -- 4. Linguistic context. Languages, dialects and linguistic geography. Sociolinguistics and language change. Oral and literate traditions. Language and language in education policies. Basic literacy, pluriliteracy and user skills. Terminology and accommodation of ICT concepts -- 5. Technical context I: physical access. Physical and soft access. Computer hardware and operating systems. Connectivity and ICT policy -- 6. Technical context II: internationalisation. The facilitating technical environment. Handling complex scripts: from ASCII to Unicode. The 'last mile' of internationalisation. Internationalisation and localisation -- 7. African-language texts, encoding and fonts. Non-Latin scripts and ICT. Typology of Latin-based African orthographies. Evolution of African-language text use in ICT. Fonts. 8. Keyboards and input systems.Keyboards. Keyboards for Africa. Alternative input methods -- 9. Defining languages in ICT: tags and locales. Languages and the ISO 639 standards. Locale data -- 10. Internet. E-mail. Internationalisation and the web. Web content in and about African languages. Internationalised domain names -- 11. Software localisation. Applications and operating systems. Trends in proprietary software. Trends in free and open-source software. Software localisation in Africa. Web interfaces -- 12. Mobile technology and other specialised applications. Mobile technology. Audio dimensions: voice, text-to-speech and speech recognition. Computer assisted translation -- 13. Achieving sustainable localisation. Needs by kind of localisation and localiser. Understanding the needs of localisers. Analysis of needs from a pan-African perspective. Facilitating communication about localisation -- 14. Summary, recommendations and conclusion. Major themes. Strategic perspective. Conferences and workshops. Training and public education on localisation. Information resources and networking. Languages, policy and planning. Basic localisation and ICT policies and programmes. Africa and ICT standards for localisation. Advanced applications, tools and research. Conclusion.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910459345103321