Pathanisation - Supporting Pashto on GNU/Linux
Pathanisation is a Meta project that is aimed at fully supporting the Pashto language in the Unix/Linux environment. It is designed to be a central location to standardize the Pathanisation process. Pathanisation relies on voluntary contributions by computer professionals and enthusiasts all over the world.
Our primary goals are listed below:
:: Translate popular and major XServer applications ::
We are working on providing Pashto support for some major XServer applications such as office suites, database, development tools and desktop environments like GNOME, KDE. Our intention is to help develop and maintain open source/free software targeted towards the Pashto speaking users.
:: Translate popular and useful free tools ::
Besides working on big projects like GNOME and KDE, we are trying hard to work on small and useful applications and tools and translate them to Pashto language.
:: Develop and support free Pashto fonts ::
We are also working on developing and adding Pashto support to fonts which are developed by non-Pashto speakers. For example, we have added Pashto support to some fonts developed by the Arabeyes.org project.
Latest News
Jul 31, 2008: KDE Pashto team started
Apr 20, 2008: Translations for some projects updated
Jan 21, 2008: "Simplified naskh" font alpha 2 released
Jan 9, 2008: GNOME translation started
Dec 24, 2007: Minbar launched
Dec 5, 2007: Pashto translation of Minbar completed
Nov 28, 2007: Pakhtosoft launches Pathanisation
For details please visit the News page.
