- From: Henri Asseily <hasseily@telnic.org>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 17:02:42 +0300
- To: Stephane Boyera <boyera@w3.org>
- CC: Nadeem Akhtar <nadeem@cewit.org.in>, 'Prashanth' <prashanth@akmin.com>, "public-mw4d@w3.org" <public-mw4d@w3.org>
And of course if everyone could agree on the SMS URI scheme (RFC 5724) that would really go a long way towards providing meaningful, ubiquitous services with SMS. On Jul 6, 2010, at 4:29 PM, Stephane Boyera wrote: > Hi Nadeem, > > yes, if you have documents or info about to manage I18N issues on SMS, > this is surely very interesting for the group (at least for me). > > Best > STephane > > Le 06/07/2010 13:05, Nadeem Akhtar a écrit : >> Hi Stephane, Prashanth, >> >> The issue of rendering in Indian languages is definitely an important one. >> I have been part of a Special Interest Group on Indian Language SMS and part >> of our work has focussed on input methods and rendering of Indian languages >> on mobile devices. I can share some of the ideas that we have worked upon as >> part of this effort. >> >> Regards, >> Nadeem >> >> >> Nadeem Akhtar >> Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology (CEWiT) >> III Floor, IITM Research Park, >> Kanagam Road, Taramani, >> Chennai - 600 113, India >> >> Ph: +91-44-66469209 >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: public-mw4d-request@w3.org [mailto:public-mw4d-request@w3.org] On >> Behalf Of Stephane Boyera >> Sent: 06 July 2010 15:20 >> To: Prashanth >> Cc: public-mw4d@w3.org >> Subject: Re: After Access – Challenges Facing Mobile-OnlyInternet Users in >> the Developing World >> >> 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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