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The Language of
e-commerce
Translation software creates a
web of possibilities for non-English speakers.
By Steve Caulk
Denver Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer
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sie?
You don't understand? Well join
the club that includes WholeTree.com Inc, a software and Internet
services company based in Colorado Springs. …Worse a company unable to
accept foreign-language data in the form of purchase orders or inventory
reports, for example, eventually will miss out on the worldwide
e-commerce boom….
One Denver entrepreneur, Aberra
Molla, is experiencing that frustration to a much greater degree as he
tries to make his native Amharic adaptable to Microsoft Windows (or vice
versa). Amharic has 450 characters rather than the 36 letters and
numbers used in English.
I have to use some English
symbols, such as comma, but I have a lot of headache," he said.
Molla's company, Ethiopian
Computers and Software has developed Ethiopic or Geez fonts that allow
Windows users to type in Amharic characters. A demo can be downloaded
for free at http://www.ethiopic.com
…
Contact Steve Cauck at (303)
892-2744 or
caulks@RockyMountainNews.com
May 1, 2000
The above article is
part of a three-page newspaper document published on May 1, 2000 in the Mile
High Tech Business Section of the Rocky Mountain News.
©
2000 Rocky Mountain News
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