English Esperanto
Esperanto is a fairly well-known artificial language. It is much easier to learn than other languages because of its simplicity and lack of stupidness. I feel sorry for anybody that needs to learn English as a second language.
Learning Esperanto, dictionary, community: http://www.lernu.com/
Lernu is an amazing site! I only wish there were similar sites for learning other languages!
Computer terms in Esperanto: http://www.komputeko.net/
"Internet dictionary", with dictd and XML dictionary files: http://www.reta-vortaro.de/
And of couse, http://eo.wikipedia.org/ is enourmous.
Nov-Zelanda Esperanto-Asocio: http://www.esperanto.org.nz/. I just hope they're not weirdos like me.
Free books in Esperanto: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/eo
Non-free books in Esperanto: http://www.amazon.com/, go to "Find foreign-language books" → "More foreign language books" → "More languages" -> "Esperanto". They don't make it easy, but there are 230 books available of which only some are actually related to Esperanto.
Esperanto in Linux
Linux mostly supports Esperanto, but support isn't complete. Some parts are still in English.
- Install Linux normally.
- Keyboard: Add the keyboard layout "Esperanto" using the Gnome keyboard layout manager setting thingie. Fiddle with the settings for a while. Gnome applications should then allow you to use right-ALT with s, c, u etc to make ŝ, ĉ, ŭ and so forth. Unfortunately, urxvt doesn't seem to like this, but gnome-terminal does.
- Open up a web browser on http://lernu.net/ and use the dictionary there if you get stuck. Lernu is awesome!
- Install the packages "language-pack-eo", "language-pack-gnome-eo". In fact, just search packages for "eo" or "Esperanto" and have a browse.
- In the login screen (GDM), select "Esperanto" as your language and log in.
- If you want your terminal to be in Esperanto, first make sure that you have a Unicode capable terminal. rxvt-unicode works. uxterm does not (!!). To test:
echo -e "\xE2\x98\xA0" # should show a skull and crossbones Unicode character.
- If you want an Esperanto dictionary, install "dictd" and get the dictd files from http://www.reta-vortaro.de/. "dict" is a nice client, and "gnome-dictionary" is a nice but buggy client (use "127.0.0.1" rather than "localhost" and it should work). To be honest, its easier to set CTRL-ALT-t to pop up a terminal and run dict than it is to use the gnome dictionary client.
- Firefox 3 unfortunately does not have Esperanto support yet.
Esperanto Wikis
Currently, the only multilingual wiki seems to be MediaWiki, which Wikipedia is using.
Any other wiki which supports Unicode could be made multilingual by including the language in the page name and then having links from each page.
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