Greetings All,
The Ethiopian Computer Standards Association (ECoSA) will be hosting
a workshop on the Ethiopian syllabary Saturday, July 4th at the Ethiopian
Authority for Standards. The workshop program is online under:
http://ECoSA.EthiopiaOnline.Net/info/1998/Workshop.040798.htm
Papers presented at the workshop will be published online following the
workshop. At issue are post-Unicode characters found in a few softwares
and characters from ancient text. Papers and discussions sessions will
be held on over 100 additional symbols for:
o Ancient and Modern Ligatures
o Extensions for Gurage (Sebatbet) Languages
o Extensions for Silte, Bench, Yem, Konso, Walayta, K'ebena, Saho, Afar,
Chaha, Ari, Me'en, Harari, Agew, Dizi, Kambata, Gumuz, and Kefa
o Italian Transliteration in Ethiopic
o Ethiopicized Latin Punctuation
o Numerals and Punctuation
o Variant Glyphs
o Ethiopic Phonetic Symbology
Technical committees will be formed following the workshop to compose a
character set required for association and national standards to follow. The
work will be submitted in the form of a proposal for the Ethiopic Extended
Range in Unicode at a later time.
Attendance is open to the general public though linguists, Bible scholars,
historians and computer experts are expected to dominated participation.
thank you,
Daniel Yacob
ECoSA Public Relations Officer
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