Development of Fonts for African Scripts: Using Computer Technologies to Preserve Africa s Written Heritage

Authors

  • Andrij Rovenchak

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18716/ojs/aaeo/2010_3540

Abstract

The issue of the font making for modern indigenous African scripts is briefly discussed. Encoding problems, including the Unicode standard, are addressed. Font samples are presented for some of the scripts.

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Published

2010-11-27

Issue

2010

Section

Proceedings

License

Copyright (c) 2010 Andrij Rovenchak

How to Cite

Rovenchak, A. (2010). Development of Fonts for African Scripts: Using Computer Technologies to Preserve Africa s Written Heritage. AAeO - Afrikanistik-Aegyptologie-Online. https://doi.org/10.18716/ojs/aaeo/2010_3540