Facebook in your language?

[Andrew Cunningham]

Out of interest, has code been added to alter the font stack facebook uses?

IF not, then this would be a valuable enhancement. Since the
Facebook's approach relies on browser or OS level font fall backs to
display text not supported by the fonts in its stack. A fairly
haphazard approach.

On 24 February 2012 13:46, Kevin Scannell <kscanne at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
>  I'm sure many of you remember Neskie Manuel who used to be a member
> of this list before his tragic passing last year.  Neskie had a great
> software project underway called "secwepemc-facebook".  Like all of
> his projects it was open source, and so you can read his description
> on github, here:
>
> https://github.com/neskie/secwepemc-facebook
>
>   In short, it involves some clever JavaScript to allow Facebook to
> be translated into his language of Secwepemctsín, despite the fact
> that it isn't one of the 100 or so languages supported by the site.  I
> think this is a game-changing idea for indigenous languages - with
> Neskie's approach there's no need to "ask permission" or have some
> engineer flip a switch on a remote server to allow you to start
> translating a web site.
>
>  A couple of days ago I finished a rewrite of Neskie's code to work
> with the new Facebook design, and generalized so that it should now
> work with any language (although I'm not sure about RTL scripts yet).
> The response has been great in just the last two days - 6 languages
> have complete translations already: Haitian Creole, Nawat (< 100
> speakers), Chichewa, Kriol (Australia), Hiligaynon, and Scottish
> Gaelic.  5 more are underway.  If you're interested, please send me a
> message off list and I can provide more details on how to do this for
> your language.   We're not aiming at complete translations - right now
> just 125 or so of the most common navigation elements, so "most" of
> what you see should be translated.
>
> Míle buíochas/thanks
>
> Kevin



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Andrew Cunningham
Senior Project Manager, Research and Development
Vicnet
State Library of Victoria
Australia

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