Microsoft to Launch Applications in Three Nigerian Languages (fwd link)

[Andrew Cunningham]

Interesting since Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo are only valid input locales
on Vista, not on older versions of windows, and although they have
input locales on Vista there are no associated keyboard layouts on
Vista to type in these languages.

I assume that Microsoft will release another ELK so people can
actually type in these languages?

Andrew

On 09/04/2008, phil cash cash <cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> Microsoft to Launch Applications in Three Nigerian Languages
>
>  HANA, 8 April 2008.
>
>  Microsoft Corporation plans to include Nigeria's dominant languages -Yoruba,
>  Hausa and Igbo in the Microsoft Office application suite before year- end.
>
>  MS Office is a group of applications consisting of Word, a word processing
>  application; Powerpoint, used for presentations; Excel, a spreadsheet
>  application, and Access, an application used for databases. By the inclusion of
>  the indigenous languages, users of the applications will be able to see them
>  displayed in their preferred languages and commands can be given and received
>  in any of the local languages.
>
>  Access full article below:
>  http://www.sangonet.org.za/portal/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9177&Itemid=1
>


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