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

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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Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln
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2025-04-02
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https://doi.org/10.18716/ojs/aaeo/2010_3540
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Digital Games and Media
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Development of Fonts for African Scripts: Using Computer Technologies to Preserve Africa s Written Heritage

Andrij Rovenchak
Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln
Digital Games and Media
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Development of Fonts for African Scripts: Using Computer Technologies to Preserve Africa s Written Heritage

Andrij Rovenchak
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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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