Kyekyeku, It sounds like you are dealing with two separate though obviously connected issues. One is the fonts one, to which John replied. It is worth pointing out of course that there are other fonts available in the meantime. There's some discussion & links on the Ghanaian languages & ICT board http://www.quicktopic.com/16/H/9xffAXi7whnv *
The second issue is the keyboard standard for use of the small but growing number of fonts with the extended characters used for Ghanaian and other African languages. You may be interested to look at the array of keyboard layouts collected at http://www.bisharat.net/A12N/Projects . These may offer some ideas on different strategies for layout and keys (sequences) for the characters not represented on the QWERTY keyboard. It would be ideal in the longer term to have a broader standard available for languages used in groups of African countries (perhaps not all languages in all countries because that might get too complicated for average users). The workshop on African languages & the internet at Bamako 2002 recommended coordination on this but I haven't heard of anything being done. So don't let that stop you... Don Osborn Bisharat.net * This and 4 similar boards were set up in response to specific questions on African languages and ICT, for discussion but also as a place to collect relevant language or country specific info of use to people working in this area. The other boards are for Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, and Togolese languages, and can be accessed via http://www.quicktopic.com/share?s=QSpo ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 10:32 AM Subject: Modifying Standard fonts > A colleague and I are working on a keyboard standard for our country, Ghana. We think that the people of Ghana would like to use this keyboard but would also like to use the Standard fonts as well. > > Standard fonts like Arial, Times New Roman don't have the Ghanaian letters. The Ghanaian letters, as I have learnt from this forum are all in Unicode. > > My questions is, would it be legal for us to modify these Standard fonts and package them with our keyboard software so that anyone who uses our keyboard could also use these standard fonts? We would >
