NewsForge: Open Asia: Open Source in Mongolia, Nepal, and Pakistan

“We continue our country-by-country survey of the availability
of open source software across Asian countries with a look at
developments in Mongolia, Nepal, and Pakistan.

“GNOME sorts various languages on the basis of their
completeness in terms of translation to non-English languages. In
late January 2003, the Mongolian language entered the list at a
whopping 15th place (supported). Sanlig Badral, Ochirbat Batzaya,
Tegshbayar, Bayarsaihan, and the others in the Mongolian team have
translated no less than 11,455, or over 95%, of messages. The
Mongolian team started their work on GNOME translations less than a
month earlier. ‘Incredible!’ said rankers of the Gnome team, egging
on various communities trying to get their languages working with
this software…”

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