Open Road

One of the most common queries during training sessions with public library staff concerns what web based email service to use for CALD clients. Each web based email service has different options, and may require different strategies. In the following discussion, I’ll discuss how Firefox and certain Firefox extensions can facilitate sending and receiving email in new and emerging languages.

I’ll concentrate on GMail. GMail uses the UTF-8 Unicode encoding and is well suited for sending and recieving multilingual email. GMail, like many internationalized web services, needs to be optimised for minority languages. Optimisation needs to be handled client side. The extend you can optimise GMail is dependant on the capabilities of your web browser.

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Welcome to the Open Road blog.

Open Road is a resource for discussing and exploring electronic multicultural library services, multilingual public internet access services, language enablement, and community language web publishing initiatives.

The Open Road blog will be a companion to the Open Road project website. The Open Road blog will focus on the use and possibilities of ICT and the internet for developing and enhancing information services to, and publishing opportunities by, migrant and refugee communities.

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