{"id":549668,"date":"2006-07-27T07:37:15","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T07:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549668-new-microsoft-software-that-translates-system-into-afrikaans.html"},"modified":"2006-07-27T07:37:15","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T07:37:15","slug":"new-microsoft-software-that-translates-system-into-afrikaans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549668-new-microsoft-software-that-translates-system-into-afrikaans.html","title":{"rendered":"New Microsoft software that translates system into Afrikaans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The software, known as a language interface pack, is available as a free download and sits on top of the existing Windows XP operating system. It translates 400000 words and phrases, including all menu items, tool bars, help files and error messages. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Microsoft has already released software overlays to convert Windows into Setswana and Zulu. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Its local developers work on the language conversion projects with the Pan South African Language Board, academics, translators from various communities and the departments of education, communication and science and technology. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">One of the most time-consuming aspects is to translate the glossary of core technology terms into the different languages. To ensure linguistic excellence, the completed glossaries are sent to the language board for approval before they are incorporated into the software. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Collaboration with the various bodies and communities was necessary to deliver linguistically correct versions, said Pfungwa Serima, MD of Microsoft SA. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cWe hope to encourage participation in the community and the world beyond by providing South Africans with access to technology in local vernaculars that not only honours cultural distinctions, but facilitates the preservation of language and culture.\u201d <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Internationally, Microsoft now provides about 40 language converters and plans to add 40 more. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Its next operating system, Vista, will support multiple minority languages from the start. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Inet-Bridge ||\u00a0 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=49013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MICROSOFT SA has released a software conversion kit that translates its Windows operating system into Afrikaans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}