Category Archives: i18n/l10n

Visual language detection (sketch) 2

Whilst at StatusCampMontreal today, a few of us in the Internationalization session were discussing interfaces for switching to another language. I hit upon a possibly rather silly idea where you can use something visual to help predict someone’s language. This is only a rough sketch, so it’s probably not much use as it is to [...]

Close of the International Year of Languages 2008 0

Yesterday was the 10th International Mother Language Day, which also marked the close of the International Year of Languages 2008. From Wikipedia: The Year is intended to address issues of linguistic diversity (in the context of cultural diversity), respect for all languages, and multilingualism. The resolution also discussed language issues in the United Nations itself. [...]