Grants:IdeaLab/Script support for African languages
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What is the problem you're trying to solve?[edit]
Wikipedia is on the forefront of hosting content in African languages. This is a major opportunity to help spread these languages for the web. However it also means that we run into unresolved issues.
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There are different styles of writing within
Some languages use romanized scripts, while others use arabic scripts - sometimes even both. For example hausa uses either: despite this ha-wiki only uses latin script. It should be relatively simple to support an automatic changer according to the table at en:Hausa language
Sometimes related languages use different scirpts: Somali and Amharic/Ethiopean Amharic vs. etc...
Diacretic marks Yoruba Not all keyboards support,, which mean that a user looking for soemthing may only be able to write xxx when the aritcle is at Currently this will not give rise to any suggestions, and with different stylings/different communities within the language choosing to write with either one or the other styling it leads to inconsistensies
- What stylings are common?
- Is it possible to switch between these simple?
- Allow for searches across different diacritic styles. For example search for:
- Àrùn kòkòrò àìlèfojúrí afàìsàn Ebola
- Arun kokoro ailefojuri afaisan Ebola
- Ṣalanga oniho
- Ṣálángá oniho
- Salanga oniho
This requires dedicated programing efforts to solve - but has the benefit of being able
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