microsoft

[David Gene Lewis]

I remember several discussion over the past 3-5 years, once on the
KMA-L listserver of the U Hawaii and several times on the Chinook-L
listserver about Microsoft and its "open source" browser. if I
remember right there were some Native computer techies working on
putting Hawaiian onto the Microsoft browser. I am not that good at
computer technical stuff so I can't really describe it correctly. All
of the Chinook-L messages are archived on the LinguistList archives
database that are fully searchable.

I am not sure how far programming into the Iexplorer browser went. I
would think that the best luck might be had with the Linux system.
They are completely open source and there is an army of computer guys
creating programming for that system. maybe this is a direction that
has some future for Native languages. Anyone here work with Linux???

I will try to fine the text of the discussion about Microsoft open
source programming for the list.
David



>>It is really, really, really hard to build something as big as
Windows in
another language.

I struggled for 3 years to get Mescalero to adopt some fonts that
would work
in Microsoft Office, which I had to design, build, and develop
supporting
tools for.





David Lewis
University of Oregon
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde