Le 16/10/2015 02:22, Don Osborn a écrit :
I was surprised to learn of continued reference to and presumably use
of 8-bit fonts modified two decades ago for the extended Latin
alphabets of Malian languages, and wondered if anyone has similar
observations in other countries. Or if there have been any recent
studies of adoption of Unicode fonts in the place of local 8-bit fonts
for extended Latin (or non-Latin) in local language computing.
A different usage where I suspect 8 bits proprietary fonts are used are
electronic French (Grandjean) stenotypes, which use some non-unicode
characters (like E without middle-bar). They are apparently used with
computer software since the 1980’s (cf
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/jpa-00245165/document [pdf in French])
to make live subtitles. But I guess the proprietary nature of these
characters and use by a single company (since ~1910) makes there
encoding in Unicode unlikely.
Frédéric
