Update symbols.dic

[smbgsrini]

Added some Kannada symbols

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[CyrilleB79]

Hello @smbgsrini

Thanks for wanting to contribute to NVDA.

Regarding translation of symbols (this PR) and characters (PR #16308), the current process is to translate through a specific Assembla repository dedicated to translation, not through GitHub.
At least this was the process until NVDA 2024.1 for which the translation period ends on next Monday.

Thus, it seems to me a bit late to integrate the changes of a new contributor until Monday.

The translation framework is currently evolving and we do not yet know how character and symbol files will be translated for NVDA 2024.2.

Thus I'd recommend that you subscribe to the translators mailing list. There you can write to the list to present yourself and try to get in touch with the current Kannada translator if any.
Though, looking at SVN repo history in kn folder, it seems that Kannada has not been updated for a long time, so maybe the translator is not active anymore.

Once you are subscribed to the list, you will be able to follow the discussions on the translation framework transition during NVDA 2024.2 dev cycle and you will be informed along with other people on how character and symbol translation will be processed.

Note also that sending a first e-mail to the list will allow you to pass the first moderation (only required for the first message); this will allow your subsequent messages not to be retained for moderation.

Cheers,

Cyrille

[CyrilleB79]

Regarding the current PR, unless NV Access says otherwise, let's keep it open until we know precisely how translation of caracters and symbols work in NVDA 2024.2.

[michaelDCurran]

For now, we will take symbols and characterDescriptions here (via Github pull request).