[GAELIC-L] Documentary on Irish language /computing

[Gerard Cunningham]

My name is Gerard Cunningham, and I'm putting together a proposal for a
documentary on programming in Irish. The idea is to look at the language
localisation project for Ubuntu (a Linux distro), but I would also be
interested in speaking to anyone who uses Irish language versions of
other popular software, whether browsers, office suites or other.

In Ireland, many programmers work on Linux projects, either together or
in groups. And because Ubuntu is about community, one of it's strength
is localisation. Ubuntu has been fully translated into 29 languages, and
there are translation projects under way in more than 200. One group in
Ireland is dedicated to producing Ubuntu As Gaeilge.

If there is anyone here who uses such software, I'd appreciate if you
could get in touch. Ideally I'd like to talk to people in Ireland (I
have a limited travel budget) but would also be interested in talking to
people living / working abroad.

[JD]

I doubt you will get much help for a Linux machine.

There is a massive amount of information on
various Irish fonts, keyboards etc. for Windows
machines. and Ciarán Ó Duibhín is one of the best
sources of information.
He is also a very helpful person, lives in the UK,
and may know of someone working with Linux. Using
Unicode should help.

Here are a couple of examples of what is available
for Windows:

1 Gaelic Keyboards for MS-WindowsGaelic Keyboards
for MS Windows. Ciarán Ó Duibhín. For Gaelic
keyboards for Macintosh, see here or here or here.
All the acute- and grave-accented vowels ...
www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/~oduibhin/mearchlar/windows.htm
- Cached - Similar

2 Acmhainní GaedhilgeGaelic keyboards for
MS-Windows An síneadh fada agus ponc an
tséimhithe. An stràc geur agus an stràc maol.
Keyboarding acute, grave, and dot-over ...
http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/%7Eoduibhin/ - Cached -
Similar
This web page has Ciarán's email address in the
top right corner.

That should keep you busy, and out of trouble :-)
for a while.

Post by Gerard Cunningham
My name is Gerard Cunningham, and I'm putting together a proposal for a
documentary on programming in Irish. The idea is to look at the language
localisation project for Ubuntu (a Linux distro), but I would also be
interested in speaking to anyone who uses Irish language versions of
other popular software, whether browsers, office suites or other.
In Ireland, many programmers work on Linux projects, either together or
in groups. And because Ubuntu is about community, one of it's strength
is localisation. Ubuntu has been fully translated into 29 languages, and
there are translation projects under way in more than 200. One group in
Ireland is dedicated to producing Ubuntu As Gaeilge.
If there is anyone here who uses such software, I'd appreciate if you
could get in touch. Ideally I'd like to talk to people in Ireland (I
have a limited travel budget) but would also be interested in talking to
people living / working abroad.