We are trying to use ODK in North Kivu (east DRC) and while I have got the French forms to work, I am trying the use the translations feature to also have the survey in Kiswahili, the local swahili dialect. The dialect is significantly different to "standard" Swahili, and also has a lot of French mixed in. When I load the survey on to the smart phones the ODK app tells me it cannot read the form. I got the same message when I at first input French language questions into English fields, so could this be because ODK doesn't recognize Kivu Swahili as Swahili? If so, how can I get around this?
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Luisa Ryan <luisa.cait...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> We are trying to use ODK in North Kivu (east DRC) and while I have got the
> French forms to work, I am trying the use the translations feature to also
> have the survey in Kiswahili, the local swahili dialect. The dialect is
> significantly different to "standard" Swahili, and also has a lot of French
> mixed in. When I load the survey on to the smart phones the ODK app tells
> me it cannot read the form. I got the same message when I at first input
> French language questions into English fields, so could this be because ODK
> doesn't recognize Kivu Swahili as Swahili? If so, how can I get around
> this?
> Any help is greatly appreciated,
> Thanks,
> Luisa.
On Friday, September 21, 2012, Luisa Ryan wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> We are trying to use ODK in North Kivu (east DRC) and while I have got the
> French forms to work, I am trying the use the translations feature to also
> have the survey in Kiswahili, the local swahili dialect. The dialect is
> significantly different to "standard" Swahili, and also has a lot of French
> mixed in. When I load the survey on to the smart phones the ODK app tells
> me it cannot read the form. I got the same message when I at first input
> French language questions into English fields, so could this be because ODK
> doesn't recognize Kivu Swahili as Swahili? If so, how can I get around
> this?
> Any help is greatly appreciated,
> Thanks,
> Luisa.
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 1:35 AM, ゴー・ニコライ <nikolai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ODK XForms don't "understand" languages - it's all Greek to them. ;-]
> It must be some syntax error that's causing it to fail. Use OKD Validate
> to verify.
> P.S.
> We're also doing some work on XForms for South Kivu.
> /r
> On Friday, September 21, 2012, Luisa Ryan wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>> We are trying to use ODK in North Kivu (east DRC) and while I have got
>> the French forms to work, I am trying the use the translations feature to
>> also have the survey in Kiswahili, the local swahili dialect. The dialect
>> is significantly different to "standard" Swahili, and also has a lot of
>> French mixed in. When I load the survey on to the smart phones the ODK app
>> tells me it cannot read the form. I got the same message when I at first
>> input French language questions into English fields, so could this be
>> because ODK doesn't recognize Kivu Swahili as Swahili? If so, how can I get
>> around this?
>> Any help is greatly appreciated,
>> Thanks,
>> Luisa.
