Wikimedia Mobile engineering/imported/Mobile projects/Localization Roadmap

WORK IN PROGRESS

The ability to read and write Wikimedia content is a first premise, critical for those languages using scripts with poor or no commercial support. Installing fonts and language packs can be trickier or even impossible in certain mobile platforms or in certain devices distributed by certain operators. As a rule of thumb, cheaper devices have a more restricted expandability - and many times are those cheap devices the ones most commonly used by the speakers of those unsupported languages...

Language support includes many areas and actually some of the most demanding for a device vendor (e.g. all pre-installed apps localized in language XX) are not critical for Wikimedia projects. What really matters for us is:


 * Fonts supported in browser.
 * Possibility to install additional fonts.
 * Text input supported.
 * Possibility to install additional virtual keyboards.
 * Text prediction supported.
 * Possibility to install additional predicted languages.
 * Dictionaries supported.
 * Possibility to install additional dictionaries.

Check the proposal to create a language support table.