Localization

FOSS Localization Guide and Toolkit

A range of useful "how-to" resources related to localization provided by the International Open Source Network.

FOSS Localization Projects

A list of localization projects in Asia provided by the International Open Source Network.

FOSS Localization News

Free/Open Source Software localization news

FOSS Localization Organizations

Links to organizations with localization projects.

The Native-Lang Confederation of OpenOffice.org

The Native-Lang Confederation of OpenOffice.org is a full category of the OpenOffice.org community that represents the worldwide communities of users, developpers, marketers and businesses of OpenOffice.org in specific native-languages. This community is hence based on linguistic differences and not on country/political distinctions. The Native-Lang Confederation can help you grow your community inside the famework of the OpenOffice.org community. For more info: http://native-lang.openoffice.org

Bitstream Cyberbit Unicode Font

A professionally designed serif Opentype font for Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Western European and English, Eastern and Central European, Turkish, Baltic Rim, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese. It's free for non-commercial use.

Introduction to Indic Languages

A brief overview of the key elements to understanding the writing system and encoding of Indic languages. IBM has made progress in collecting information on this vast subject and providing it in a single place for experts to review, and for developers to use.

Unicode Font Guide For Free/Libre Open Source Operating Systems

A selective guide to Unicode-based fonts and script projects that are ideal for free/libre/open source (FLOSS) operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD. These fonts in general contain Unicode CMAPs for mapping Unicode values to glyphs and can be downloaded and used legally for free.