Review of script displays of African languages by current software
Review of script displays of African languages by current software
All recorded African languages that have a writing system have orthographies which use the Roman or Arabic scripts, with a few exceptions. Whilst Unicode successfully handles the encoding of both these scripts, current software, in particular web browsers, take little account of users wishing to operate in a minority script. Their use for displaying African languages has been limited by the availability of facilities and the desire to communicate with the ‘world’ through major languages such as English and French. There is a need for more use of the indigenous languages to strengthen their language communities and the use of the local scripts in enhancing the learning, teaching and general use of their own languages by their speaking communities.
African languages, display scripts
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Gee, Quintin
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December 2005
Gee, Quintin
ac0f464c-c192-4806-9c95-f0a866415c16
Gee, Quintin
(2005)
Review of script displays of African languages by current software.
New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, Special Issue on Hypermedia beyond the Desktop, 11 (2), .
Abstract
All recorded African languages that have a writing system have orthographies which use the Roman or Arabic scripts, with a few exceptions. Whilst Unicode successfully handles the encoding of both these scripts, current software, in particular web browsers, take little account of users wishing to operate in a minority script. Their use for displaying African languages has been limited by the availability of facilities and the desire to communicate with the ‘world’ through major languages such as English and French. There is a need for more use of the indigenous languages to strengthen their language communities and the use of the local scripts in enhancing the learning, teaching and general use of their own languages by their speaking communities.
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Published date: December 2005
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African languages, display scripts
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Local EPrints ID: 261569
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/261569
ISSN: 1361-4568
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