Language tools

This project should go beyond the state of the art in language tools. Just localizing all the software, and having a dictionary, is not enough - many of the users will be bilingual between an indigenous and a colonial language, and it will be impossible to localize to all possible indigenous languages before shipping. Thus, the laptops themselves should have localization support and language-learner support, ideally built into every application (!). Moreover, you do NOT want an impossible fragmentation of commands/error messages to make tech support impossible, so ideally as part of the same effort you make the "canonical" English version accessible for when tech support is needed. The same arguments apply to any source code and/or programming activities included, which is why you need a source-code editor with transparent native-language display.

Homunq 04:08, 28 July 2007 (EDT)