[A12n-forum] AfroRoman Unicode font

["Donald Z. Osborn" <dzo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not sure when this happened (sorry if it's old news to many of you) but
Linguist's Software now has a Unicode version of their AfroRoman font. I
haven't been in communication with them in a while, but at one time their
Unicode font offerings were quite limited, and one specialist there told me a
few years ago that Unicode just wouldn't meet African character needs
(unfortunately I don't have access to all my correspondence from back then).

This is an encouraging development, though I have no idea how the font itself
compares with various others, free and commercial, that are available.

On the list of languages, the less comment the better, though I wonder why the
need for all the alternate names for Ewe when those for others are not
mentioned.

Don Osborn
Bisharat.net


>From http://www.linguistsoftware.com/afrou.htm :

Now you can get the AfroRoman® font in a Unicode?-encoded version!

AfroRoman® in Unicode? is available for both Windows and Macintosh and provides
a professional-quality, Unicode-encoded font in TrueType® OpenType® format (in
plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic styles) for typing more than 1450 African
languages, plus English and other west European (or Latin 1) languages. This
beautiful, unique font contains 1936 letters, accents, diacritics, and accented
character combinations that are easily typed with the included keyboard
software. The AfroRomanU font supports the following African languages (see the
expanded lists under Bantu and Chadic):

Acholi 
Afrikaans 
Bantu languages 
Bobangi 
Buluba-Lulua 
Chadic languages 
chiKaranga 
Chishona (chiShona) 
Ewe* 
Fulani (Fulfulde) 
Fulani-Adamawa 
Gã 
Hausa 
Igbo (Ibo) 
Kanuri 
Karanga 
Kinyarwanda (Kinya-rwanda) 
Kongo 
Lu-Gande 
Masai 
Matabele 
Mende 
Mole 
Namaquah 
Ndebele 
Northern Sotho 
Nyika 
Pedi 
Serere 
Setswana 
Shona 
SiSwati 
Somali 
Sotho 
Swahili 
Tebele 
Temne 
Tswana 
Twi 
Umbundu 
Vai 
Western Sotho 
Wolof 
Wolof of Senegal 
Yao 
Yoruba 
Zulu 

*Ewe is also known as Ebwe, Efe, Ehwe, Eibe, Eue, Eve, Gbe, Krepe, Krepi, Popo,
and Vhe.