From: Patrick Andries (Patrick.Andries@xcential.com)
Date: Wed Jun 30 2004 - 16:14:44 CDT
Donald Z. Osborn a écrit :
>And a lot more yet... In some parts of the world that could benefit most from
>actively working Unicode, such as much of Africa, there is still relatively
>little knowledge of it. Even among techies.
>
>In fact, there is still an undercurrent of dissatisfaction among some who know
>something about Unicode with aspects of how it provides for some African
>character needs. I was reminded of this by a letter I received not long ago
>from someone who attended a recent colloquium on ICT in Ouagadougou.
>
>Within the last year some of us began discussing possible conferences,
>workshops, training modules, or a "road show" on Unicode in Africa and perhaps
>other regions.
>
Yes, we did and this in a language understood in the given country. I'm
not sure a series of workshops in English in French-speaking Africa is
for instance a good thing.
A series of workshops (in French, Arabic or Berber) is planned for
Morocco later this year on this subject (Unicode, multilingual documents
and font technology).
P. A.
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