Rhonda Hartell did a compilation based on available info, published 23 yrs ago by SIL. Christian Chanard put that info into a database, Systemes alphabetiques, accessible via links from http://www.bisharat.net/wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/WritingSystems#toc11
All I have right now (taking break from shoveling leaf compost). Don ------Original Message------ From: Doug Ewell Sender: Unicode To: unicode@unicode.org To: Don Osborn Subject: Re: Non-standard 8-bit fonts still in use Sent: May 8, 2016 2:31 PM Don Osborn wrote: > In the multilingual settings I'm most interested in, the language > requirements often overlap, sometimes considerably (thinking here of > extended Latin alphabets). This is because in many languages use > characters that are part of the African Reference Alphabet. So it is > possible to have one keyboard layout for each language, or merge > requirements if you will for two or more. When the A12n-collab group > was active* one concept discussed at some length was a "pan-Sahelian" > layout that could serve many languages across a number of countries. I wonder if there is a good and fairly comprehensive reference to the most common Latin-based alphabets used for African languages, comparable to Michael Everson's "The Alphabets of Europe" [1]. Such would be helpful for determining the level of effort to create a pan-African keyboard layout, or to adapt (if necessary) an existing multilingual layout like John Cowan's Moby Latin [2]. [1] http://www.evertype.com/alphabets/ [2] http://recycledknowledge.blogspot.com/2013/09/us-moby-latin-keyboard-for-windows.html -- Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 🇺🇸 Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
