FOSS Localization/Resources and Tools

 FOSS Localization 

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Foreword — Acknowledgements — Introduction — Localization Efforts in the Asia-Pacific — Recommendations — Annex A: Key Concepts — Annex B: Technical Aspects — Further Reading — Resources and Tools — Glossary — About the Authors — About APDIP — About IOSN

Bangladesh

Ankur - Supporting Bangla (Bengali) on GNU/Linux.

http://www.bengalinux.org

Bangla Innovation Through Open Source.

http://biosindex.blogspot.com/

Bangladesh Linux Users Alliance.

http://www.linux.org.bd

Bangladesh Linux User Group.

http://www.bdlug.org

Cambodia

Resources on Khmer font in Unicode.

http://www.khmeros.info/drupal/?q=en/support/faq/installation

Khmer Unicode Windows.

http://www.khmercivil.com/unicode/index.php

Khmer Open Source.

http://www.khmeros.info/

China

Linux China.

http://www.linux.org.cn

GNU China.

http://www.gnuchina.org

Red Flag Linux.

http://www.redflag-linux.com/eindex.html

China Linux Forum.

http://www.linuxforum.net

Free Software.

http://www.linuxeden.com

Linux Home.

http://linux.softhouse.com.cn

China software.

http://www.cosix.com.cn

Xteam Software.

http://www.xteam.com.cn

TurboLinux China.

http://www.turbolinux.com.cn

India

Linux India.

http://www.linux-india.org

Free Software Foundation of India.

http://www.gnu.org.in

Linux Localization Team, National Centre for Software Technology.

http://janabhaaratii.org.in/page_gen.php?lang=en&body=/intro.html

OpenOffice localization project for Hindi.

http://hi.openoffice.org

Indian localization projects.

http://www.indlinux.org

Indonesia

Indonesian Open Source Contributor Group.

http://www.itb.ac.id

Indonesian Open Source Community.

http://www.pandu.org

Open Source Indonesia.

http://opensource-indonesia.com/kioss.php/index.php

Gnome Indonesia.

http://gnome.linux.or.id

openSUSE

http://en.opensuse.org/ID-Welcome_to_openSUSE.org

openOffice.org

http://id.openoffice.org/

Lao PDR

Lao Unicode and related resources.

http://sabaidi.imag.fr/laounicode-en.htm

Various documents on Lao

fonts, encoding schemes, and locales.

http://park.lao.net/references

Lao KDE localization project.

http://laonux.muanglao.com

OpenOffice Lao version project.

http://xangdao.muanglao.com

Myanmar

Ubuntu Myanmar LoCo Team

http://ubuntu-mm.net\

https://www.facebook.com/UbuntuMM

FOSS Myanmar

https://github.com/fossmyanmar

https://www.facebook.com/fossmm

Linux Project.

http://www.myanmarlug.org/pegunc-linux

Myanmar Linux User Groups.

http://www.myanmarlinux.org

Myanmar Language Support Project.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mandalay

Malaysia

Malaysia Open Source.

http://www.my-opensource.org

KDE Malaysia.

http://kde-ms.sourceforge.net

OpenOffice Malaysia.

http://oo-l10n-my.sourceforge.net

Mongolia

Open Source Initiative.

http://www.openmn.org

Nepal

FOSS Nepal Community

http://www.fossnepal.org

Open Technology Research Center

http://www.otrc.gov.np

Nepalinux.

http://www.nepalinux.org/

Pakistan

Linux Pakistan.

http://www.linuxpakistan.net

Philippines

Philippines Linux User Group.

http://plug.linux.org.ph

Open Source Foundation.

http://opensource.asti.dost.gov.ph

Linux Localization Project.

http://www.bayanihan.gov.ph

Government Open Source Initiatives.

http://www.asti.dost.gov.ph

Open Source Centre.

http://osl.apc.edu.ph

Sri Lanka

Lanka Linux User Group.

http://www.lklug.pdn.ac.lk/index.php

Lanka Open Source Foundation.

http://www.opensource.lk

Tamil Linux.

http://www.tamil.homelinux.org

Thailand

Thai Linux Working Group.

http://linux.thai.net

Thai Open Source Network.

http://opensource.thai.net

Linux TLE, OfficeTLE.

http://opentle.org

Pladao Office.

http://www.pladao.org

Thailand's IT standards.

http://www.nectec.or.th/it-standards

Thai Open Source Federation.

http://www.tosf.org

Thai Open Source portal.

http://tosdn.com

OpenOffice Thai Project.

http://th.openoffice.org

Viet Nam

Linux Viet Nam.

http://www.linuxvn.com

Linux Forum.

http://www.linux.cmc.com.vn

Ho Chi Minh Linux User Group.

http://h0lug.sourceforge.net

Vietnamese KDE Localization Project.

http://vi.i18n.kde.org

Vietnamese Gnome Localization Project.

http://gnomevi.sourceforge.net

Chuong T.L., Ministry of Science & Technology, Minh H.T., CMC Co Ltd.

http://www.asiaosc.org/uploads/20030313_1/downloads/TranLuuChuong/Slide/html/img0.html

Linux User Groups in Viet Nam.

http://www.ssc.com:8080/glue/groups/nonus/vietnam

ISOC - Internet Society Viet Nam.

http://www.isoc-vn.org/www/index-vn.html

Linux Viet Nam - VietKey Group.

http://linux.vietkey.net

Localization Information Portals and Tools

Microsoft's global development portal.

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev

A portal with information, software and links on translation.

http://www.translation.net

News, tools, processes for global software

http://www.i18ngurus.com

KDE and GNOME

http://www.kde.org and http://www.gnome.org

OpenOffice.org

http://www.openoffice.org

Mozilla.

http://www.mozilla.org

Organizations

The official Web site of the Unicode Consortium.

http://www.unicode.org

A Unicode resources website with links to variety of useful tools and utilities e.g. Unicode fonts, shareware, etc.

http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/

An introduction to Unicode with many useful links.

http://www.czyborra.com/unicode/characters.html

Internationalization standards and tools.

ftp://dkuug.dk/i18n/index.htm

Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA).

http://www.lisa.org

This site is dedicated to the tools and technologies used in the localization of software, online help and documentation.

http://www.opentag.com

The International Standards Organization (ISO).

http://www.iso.ch