Don Osborn wrote:
In the multilingual settings I'm most interested in, the language
requirements often overlap, sometimes considerably (thinking here of
extended Latin alphabets). This is because in many languages use
characters that are part of the African Reference Alphabet. So it is
possible to have one keyboard layout for each language, or merge
requirements if you will for two or more. When the A12n-collab group
was active* one concept discussed at some length was a "pan-Sahelian"
layout that could serve many languages across a number of countries.
I wonder if there is a good and fairly comprehensive reference to the
most common Latin-based alphabets used for African languages, comparable
to Michael Everson's "The Alphabets of Europe" [1]. Such would be
helpful for determining the level of effort to create a pan-African
keyboard layout, or to adapt (if necessary) an existing multilingual
layout like John Cowan's Moby Latin [2].
[1] http://www.evertype.com/alphabets/
[2]
http://recycledknowledge.blogspot.com/2013/09/us-moby-latin-keyboard-for-windows.html
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