[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Asian language support?

[From: Aaron Kavlie]

On May 30, 2005, at 3:11 PM, Mohammad wrote:

> On Sab, 2005-05-28 at 04:23 +0900, ext Aaron Kavlie wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the official word on this, though a little disappointing.
>> I take it there is no plan to market it in Asia, then?
>>
>
> The 770 device is not going to be sold in Asia *-(
> But there is possibility for the next device
>
>
>> Was the handwriting recognition custom-written by Nokia?
>>
>
> The HWR engine in the product was written by a third party company.
> I'm thinking of creating an HWR open source engine though, wanna help?

Hmm, it seems that I accidentally sent the last e-mail off-list, so  
sending the reply back through it.

Unfortunately I do not have sufficient capability as far as coding  
goes; about the best I can do I think is raise awareness and be a  
cheerleader for Asian text support, an area most open-source  
developers seem to neglect.  And input/testing perhaps, for anyone  
willing to work on some actual code.  I understand C to a point, just  
was never able to get very good at it.  :-(

If you already have a working HWR engine, what is the purpose in  
writing an open-source version?  To eventually replace the current  
solution?