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

2025/04/02 by Andrij Rovenchak, Rovenchak, Andrij
Social Sciences · #Digital Games and Media #Media, Communication, and Education

paper · doi: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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