August 28th, 2008 by Andrew Cunningham
One of the sessions at the Open Road Conference this year was on Language Enablement. The presentation slides are available at http://www.openroad.net.au/conferences/2008/papers/woc.pdf.
Current language enablement work here is focusing on Harari (an Ethiopian language) and a range of Sudanese languages, including Dinka, Nuer, Bari and others.
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October 31st, 2007 by Andrew Cunningham
Current font technologies and font rendering systems make a distinction between writing scripts that require complex rendering and those scripts that do not. In most cases Latin is treated as a non-complex script. For a range of African and South East Asian languages that use the Latin script, the Latin script needs to be treated as a complex script.
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June 8th, 2007 by Andrew Cunningham
A number of changes to the Myanmar script and proposed support for additional South east Asian support are in the ISO/IEC 10646 and Unicode pipelines over the next year or two.
Andrew West provides a very good summary of what will be in Unicode 5.1 in his post What’s new in Unicode 5.1 ?.
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