Google in Hawaiian now available (fwd)

[Keola Donaghy]

Aloha e Te Taka, and mahalo to you for your kokua and guidance in  
bringing this to fruition.

At this point the Hawaiian link is not available yet, we're waiting  
for the Google engineers to activate that. The reason for pushing the  
newspaper articles out was that because of the tight integration of  
Safari with Mac OS, some Safari users who had chosen Hawaiian as their  
primary language in OS X (under the language preferences) were already  
seeing the Hawaiian interface! This was a surprise to me and those who  
saw it. One person actually (jokingly, I hope) emailed and asked if I  
had hacked his computer and caused Google to show in Hawaiian. So for  
that reason we went ahead and announced it, explaining that the option  
of choosing the Hawaiian interface would be available to uses of other  
browsers and platforms soon.

Feedback has so far been positive. I've told people how to set their  
language preferences and so far no problems. Will report as further  
deployment happens.

Mahalo again,

Keola


On 11 ʻAu. 2009, at 4:00 PM, Te Taka Keegan wrote:

> Aloha Keola,
>
> Congratulations on all your efforts to get it completed. I, perhaps  
> more than anyone, have a fair idea of all those twists and turns...  
> you deserve a lot of acknowledgement for your determination and the  
> long hours of your 'volunteer' work!
>
> Were you able to 'officially launch it' or was it just the newspaper  
> articles?
>
> Also any feedback yet about its usage?
>
> Mahalo
>
> Te Taka
>
> 2009/8/12 Keola Donaghy <donaghy at hawaii.edu>
> Aloha Phil, mahalo for posting the story and for your kind thoughts.  
> It was a long haul with a few twists and turns along the way, but  
> definitely worthwhile doing. Thanks also for this wonderful resource  
> and the support you provide for these kinds of projects.
>
> Keola
>
> On 11 ʻAu. 2009, at 6:18 AM, phil cash cash wrote:
>
>> Congrats Keola!  It is always good to see your work (and everybody  
>> at the UofH Hilo) getting recognition.  peace,
>>
>> Phil Cash Cash
>> UofA
>>
>> Quoting phil cash cash <cashcash at email.arizona.edu>:
>>
>> > Google in Hawaiian now available
>> >
>> > Updated at 3:57 am, Tuesday, August 11, 2009
>> > Tags: google, hawaiian language, kalena silva, te taka keegan, uh- 
>> hilo
>> >
>> > MEDIA RELEASE
>> > http://www.hawaii247.org/2009/08/11/google-in-hawaiian-now-available/
>> >
>> > The University of Hawaii at Hilo has announced the development of  
>> a Hawaiian
>> > language interface for Google, the world’s most popular Internet
>> > search engine.
>
>
>
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> Keola Donaghy
> Assistant Professor of Hawaiian Studies
> Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikolani             keola at leoki.uhh.hawaii.edu
> University of Hawai'i at Hilo           http://www2.hawaii.edu/~donaghy/
>
> "Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam."  (Irish Gaelic saying)
> A country without its language is a country without its soul.
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Keola Donaghy
Assistant Professor of Hawaiian Studies
Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikolani             keola at leoki.uhh.hawaii.edu
University of Hawai'i at Hilo           http://www2.hawaii.edu/~donaghy/

"Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam."  (Irish Gaelic saying)
A country without its language is a country without its soul.
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