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Hindi as a language in rockbox

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crzyboyster:
For those that don't know, Hindi is one of the most widely spoken languages in India and I think that a language from South Asia should be included in rockbox because you have lots of users from there.

I was just reading the font stats page at the rasher rockbox site and noticed that Devanagari font is 95% supported by unifont! I am interested in making a lang file for rockbox that can use Hindi. What would be the proper way to do this? I run windows so compiling would be a problem on my ancient computer.

I'm probably going to submit a feature request for this, but in case that isn't going to be done, I would like to know how to do it myself.

Cheers

Domonoky:

As translation can only be done by people knowing the target language it would be good if you step forward and do it :-)

I think you can do everything for translation without a development enviroment. Check the wiki, especially this page: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/LangFiles

cheers back..

crzyboyster:
I'm not much of a developer and I have no clue how to do most of that stuff. My biggest confusion is how I will get the Devanagari letters into notepad style encoding. I'll probably put in a feature request soon.

nls:
.lang files are utf-8 encoded text files so you should be able to use almost any text editor.

crzyboyster:
Sorry for digging up my old thread. I know a good deal of Hindi and I was wondering whether or not someone on this forum knows how to compile AND knows Hindi and is willing to make this a reality.

I will try this out myself and see how it goes.

And notepad should work for this, right? So I just take a word like those found at
--- Quote ---http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/search3advanced?dbname=platts&query=music&matchtype=exact&display=utf8
--- End quote ---
and copy the word in Devanagari script into the english.lang notepad file, right? And it would function fine?

Of course, I would need to compile it, right?

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