From: Don Osborn (dzo@bisharat.net)
Date: Thu Mar 11 2004 - 01:02:01 EST
Kyekyeku, It sounds like you are dealing with two separate though obviously
connected issues. One is the fonts one, to which John replied. It is worth
pointing out of course that there are other fonts available in the meantime.
There's some discussion & links on the Ghanaian languages & ICT board
http://www.quicktopic.com/16/H/9xffAXi7whnv *
The second issue is the keyboard standard for use of the small but growing
number of fonts with the extended characters used for Ghanaian and other
African languages. You may be interested to look at the array of keyboard
layouts collected at http://www.bisharat.net/A12N/Projects . These may
offer some ideas on different strategies for layout and keys (sequences) for
the characters not represented on the QWERTY keyboard.
It would be ideal in the longer term to have a broader standard available
for languages used in groups of African countries (perhaps not all languages
in all countries because that might get too complicated for average users).
The workshop on African languages & the internet at Bamako 2002 recommended
coordination on this but I haven't heard of anything being done. So don't
let that stop you...
Don Osborn
Bisharat.net
* This and 4 similar boards were set up in response to specific questions on
African languages and ICT, for discussion but also as a place to collect
relevant language or country specific info of use to people working in this
area. The other boards are for Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, and Togolese languages,
and can be accessed via http://www.quicktopic.com/share?s=QSpo
----- Original Message -----
From: <Kyekyeku.Opoku-Pong@nokia.com>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 10:32 AM
Subject: Modifying Standard fonts
> A colleague and I are working on a keyboard standard for our country,
Ghana. We think that the people of Ghana would like to use this keyboard but
would also like to use the Standard fonts as well.
>
> Standard fonts like Arial, Times New Roman don't have the Ghanaian
letters. The Ghanaian letters, as I have learnt from this forum are all in
Unicode.
>
> My questions is, would it be legal for us to modify these Standard fonts
and package them with our keyboard software so that anyone who uses our
keyboard could also use these standard fonts? We would
>
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