Added Santali language (sat_IN) support

[Prasanta-Hembram]

Hi, I have added Santali language support. I hope my files and changes are error free.

[Prasanta-Hembram]

Need some help re-review the translation in Santali (Ol Chiki), i have checked it's ok from my side but still not 200% sure. I have emailed 2 more proofreaders but they are busy right now. Are you all @Chakulu-Hembram @Bisuz @SantarhKora @Haripadahembram available right now??. I hope everyone is good:-)). I was busy translating in Pontoon (For Firefox Desktop) but managed to take time translating duck. @Chakulu-Hembram can understand how difficult to stick to the deadline ;-). I have recently localized duckduckgo for Santali language, after completing it i have created this pull, this pull will soon be merged but then also i want to get suggestions/correction in translation from you all.

Thanks in advance:-)

[Chakulu-Hembram]

@Prasanta-Hembram give me some time to review it and i shall comment here after completing my review for the translation. Translations are mostly ok. I will dive deep into these.

[Prasanta-Hembram]

@Prasanta-Hembram give me some time to review it and i shall comment here after completing my review for the translation. Translations are mostly ok. I will dive deep into these.

Thanks @Chakulu-Hembram , for being here in time :-)) ... and sorry about doing it so fast. You can take your time.

[Prasanta-Hembram]

Hi, @GioSensation and all maintainers i have tried all my best to bring Santali language translation to Duckduckgo, I'm fearing that you may not be accepting new locale (just my assumption, i may be wrong), if that is the case then there is no issue. I should have asked before proceeding for the translation though. If you are not accepting new locale (no issue) then i shall ask my proofreader friends to break off :-). If new locale addition is allowed then is there any way to test before making a release.

[GioSensation]

Hi, @Prasanta-Hembram. Thanks for your contribution here. We haven't added a locale for quite a while. We're looking into this and will let you know.

[GioSensation]

@Prasanta-Hembram I've merged this to test the language on our dev machines. Unfortunately these are not accessible to the general public, but I have taken a screenshot. How does this look to you?

I will revert this merge shortly while we discuss this further internally. In the meantime let me know what you think of that screenshot. Of course you will be able to refine the translations over time after release.

[Prasanta-Hembram]

Wow !!! Thanks @GioSensation . The screenshot looks good to me, fonts, font size and strings are fine only. 👍👍Just showed it to my peers they too are happy 😊 .

Regarding translation, i have repeatedly previewed my translations and many more are volunteering for the proofreading, so the quality is going to be solid. Though, there are no machine translation for Santali language so crosschecking is not possible for a non-native speaker :-. I have been trying to improve Apertium for eng-sat pair, but still in beta (https://beta.apertium.org/index.eng.html#?dir=eng-sat&q=India). In Google Translate too Santali language is in beta .

So for now you have to trust on us :-).

[Prasanta-Hembram]

screenshot

looks good to me.

[Chakulu-Hembram]

Santali texts in the screenshot are fine. Not too small/vry big. Perfect 👍👍👍

[GioSensation]

@Prasanta-Hembram We're trying to understand the practical utility of adding this language to our interface. From a couple of quick tests (I copied strings from the file you provided), I noticed that we don't return useful results from searches performed in Santali script and neither do other search engines. Is your expectations that users in your region will type searches and read results in English? If that is the case, what is the practical use of seeing the UI in Santali? I don't mean to be offensive or dismiss your contribution, just genuinely trying to understand your expectations and the use case.

[Prasanta-Hembram]

Santali language is one of the 22 official languages of India, and Indian Government has made a mendatory inclusion of all those 22 languages by any digital means. Though for now it has mandated only for Computer/Mobile applications for use only in India. Maybe in future it may be mandated for Websites but not mandated for now, so taking advantage to volunteer.

your expectations and the use case.

I want people should get content in Santali language with UI in Santali language. Not that people should search english content.

In India there are government exams conducted in this languages, taught in school has it's own Wikipedia (https://sat.wikipedia.org/ - with more than 5000 articles) and much more content. There are plenty of contents available for Santali language and are still growing. But unfortunately it's not discovered by some engines.

I have also opeaned an issue related to Santali language which is non-discoverd by Duckduckgo #522 . But, various search engines are providing good helpful results.

With a small research i have found plenty of search engines which gives relevent search results. Google gives the best relevent result till now and other 10. I have tested with 12 search engine with "ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ" or "ᱚᱞ ᱪᱤᱠᱤ" as query.
Example:

1. https://qmamu.com/search?q=%E1%B1%A5%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%B1%E1%B1%9B%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%B2%E1%B1%A4&from=web
2. https://www.google.com/search?q=%E1%B1%A5%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%B1%E1%B1%9B%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%B2%E1%B1%A4&sxsrf=APq-WBudJGMzblnW4-iO4abECOiZDjo1ug%3A1646373836075&source=hp&ei=zKshYpGCAo6ImAXH1IO4Cg&iflsig=AHkkrS4AAAAAYiG53MFJqHO4-Lj6_EhjN-uuv5ObTRU_&ved=0ahUKEwiRmKi95Kv2AhUOBKYKHUfqAKcQ4dUDCAc&uact=5&oq=%E1%B1%A5%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%B1%E1%B1%9B%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%B2%E1%B1%A4&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EANQAFiYFWC3GmgBcAB4AIAB7wGIAZAOkgEFMC40LjWYAQCgAQE&sclient=gws-wiz
3. https://www.ask.com/web?q=%E1%B1%A5%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%B1%E1%B1%9B%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%B2%E1%B1%A4&ad=dirN&o=0
4. https://petalsearch.com/search?query=%E1%B1%A5%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%B1%E1%B1%9B%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%B2%E1%B1%A4&channel=all&locale=en-us&sregion=in&from=PCweb&ps=10&pn=1&ss_mode=moderate&sid=9m559whdje3w0aet2vjejod89r5mh2e7&ml=en-us&uuid=8fji4x1vldgybnm46i2vo35z7fooym75&qs=1&source=PCweb&page_start=0
5. https://searx.be/search (https://searx.space/)
6. https://www.startpage.com/sp/search (YES)
7. https://www.lukol.com/s.php?q=%E1%B1%9C%E1%B1%A9%E1%B1%9C%E1%B1%9A%E1%B1%9E+%E1%B1%9B%E1%B1%9A%E1%B1%A8%E1%B1%A1%E1%B1%9A%E1%B1%A2%E1%B1%9F#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=%E1%B1%9C%E1%B1%A9%E1%B1%9C%E1%B1%9A%E1%B1%9E%20%E1%B1%9B%E1%B1%9A%E1%B1%A8%E1%B1%A1%E1%B1%9A%E1%B1%A2%E1%B1%9F&gsc.page=1
8. https://search.yahoo.co.jp/search?p=%E1%B1%9C%E1%B1%A9%E1%B1%9C%E1%B1%9A%E1%B1%9E+%E1%B1%9B%E1%B1%9A%E1%B1%A8%E1%B1%A1%E1%B1%9A%E1%B1%A2%E1%B1%9F&fr=top_ga1_sa&ei=UTF-8&ts=4544&aq=-1&oq=&at=&ai=282a12f0-3c69-477c-85e6-81ff22ba8094

Semi results:

1. https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=%E1%B1%A5%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%B1%E1%B1%9B%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%B2%E1%B1%A4
2. https://searx.space/
3. https://yandex.com/search/?text=%E1%B1%A5%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%B1%E1%B1%9B%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%B2%E1%B1%A4&lr=21229

I know it is a low resource language but it's utility is remarkably increased. Maybe you can think of it in future. I have no problem if it is not included in Duckduckgo. :-)

[Cloud-Prakash]

DuckDuckGo does not return any results but Google does.I don't know what queries you tested @GioSensation but i request you to test this query in Google ᱨᱟᱺᱪᱤ, ᱡᱷᱟᱨᱠᱷᱚᱱᱰ. There are results in Santali which are uself to the reader.

[GioSensation]

Thank you all for your submission and comments.

After internal review, we will not be able to add support for the Santali language to our UI at this time. Our search engine doesn't support queries in the Santali language and the Ol Chiki Script. Even if the UI is translated, users may be confused because they will not be able to perform localized searches using that language.

If we intend to add support in the future, we may revive this PR and ask for your input.