Thanks, Mark and all for the replies. It's definitely great that AIF is on board and I note (as I should have before - it's been some time since I referenced the page you mention) that there is some other diverse international representation at various levels. It is striking, though, that there is really no organizational or (inter)governmental representation from Africa except indirect (AIF, SIL, ...). I realize this is not intentional.
Looking at the liason level membership, perhaps this could be offered to some entities active on the continent (RIFAL, though based in France, has been working on a project in several countries for conversion of African language texts in legacy fonts to Unicode; ACALAN, the Academie Africaine des Langues, is intended to be the language body for the African Union and was a host of the African Languages & Internet workshop at the Bamako 2002 preparatory conference for the WSIS, a workshop that had questions about Unicode [not that I follow their reasoning there]; and perhaps others?). Thanks again and all the best... Don Quoting Mark Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: DZO> >what sort of African and other non-Western > > representation is there on the Unicode consortium? > MD> We were very glad recently to welcome Agence Intergouvernementale de la > Francophonie as full member of the Consortium, and look forward to working > with them to address needs of peoples in Africa. To see what other > non-Western representation there is, look at > http://www.unicode.org/consortium/memblogo.html. > > I guess the announcements on http://www.unicode.org/ are not reaching the > intended audience! > > Мark > . . .
