Grants:IdeaLab/Script support for African languages

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Script support for African languages

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created on14:02, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

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What is the problem you're trying to solve?

Wikipedia is on the forefront of hosting content in African languages. This is a major opportunity to help spread these languages for the web. However it also means that we run into unresolved issues.

Ready solutions from the zh-wiki? ask Addis...

There are different styles of writing within

Some languages use romanized scripts, while others use arabic scripts - sometimes even both. For example hausa uses either: despite this ha-wiki only uses latin script. It should be relatively simple to support an automatic changer according to the table at en:Hausa language

Sometimes related languages use different scirpts: Somali and Amharic/Ethiopean Amharic vs. etc...

Diacretic marks Yoruba Not all keyboards support,, which mean that a user looking for soemthing may only be able to write xxx when the aritcle is at Currently this will not give rise to any suggestions, and with different stylings/different communities within the language choosing to write with either one or the other styling it leads to inconsistensies

• What stylings are common?
• Is it possible to switch between these simple?
• Allow for searches across different diacritic styles. For example search for:
  • Àrùn kòkòrò àìlèfojúrí afàìsàn Ebola
  • Arun kokoro ailefojuri afaisan Ebola

• Ṣalanga oniho
• Ṣálángá oniho
• Salanga oniho

This requires dedicated programing efforts to solve - but has the benefit of being able

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