- From: Stephane Boyera <boyera@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:50:27 +0200
- To: Prashanth <prashanth@akmin.com>
- CC: "public-mw4d@w3.org" <public-mw4d@w3.org>
Hi Prashanth, This is a very good point. I believe that there is not much attention from the I18N community on the support of languages in mobile browser. This is something that i've on my agenda. As a first step i discussed recently with a colleague and we will develop a doc around the key elements to deliver content in a specific languages. Steph Le 06/07/2010 04:42, Prashanth a écrit : > Dear Stephane, > > As far as India is concerned the biggest issue is rendering of local > language fonts in the mobile browsers. Note that I am not even pointing > to user having to key in text in local languages, but very unfortunately > the Indian fonts do not even get displayed in the mobile browser. > Today we have over 80,000 mobile websites created using our tool > www.mobisitegalore.com and over 50% come from India, but there is no way > that they can created a mobile website in Hindi or Tamil because the > fonts would just not render in the mobile browser. > This is an important missing link as most people in India cannot read > English. > > Warm regards > S.Prashanth > CEO > www.akmin.com > > > > On 05-Jul-2010 5:17 PM, Stephane Boyera wrote: >> Dear All, >> i want to share with you a very good paper from S. Gitau, J. Donner >> and G. Marsden. >> The paper is attached >> References are: >> Gitau, Shikoh, Marsden, Gary, & Donner, Jonathan. (2010). After access >> - Challenges facing mobile-only internet users in the developing >> world. Proceedings of the 28th international conference on human >> factors in computing systems (CHI 2010) (pp. 2603-2606). New York: ACM. >> >> One of the first papers i see focusing on the barriers of using mobile >> web in developing countries by people without PC access and experience. >> Some good suggestions for operators and other players. >> >> Steph -- Stephane Boyera stephane@w3.org W3C +33 (0) 5 61 86 13 08 BP 93 fax: +33 (0) 4 92 38 78 22 F-06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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