A12n-collaboration -- A12n tech support
About A12n-collaboration	English
A12n-collaboration ("A12n-collab") seeks to facilitate communication among experts in African languages and ICT about technical issues and standards to facilitate localization and multilingual computing in Africa. These include: Unicode and African character sets, keyboards, language tags (ISO-639) and their use, and other technical & standards topics as appropriate. A12n-collab was originally set up as a temporary working group on 21 March 2002 to: 1) facilitate communication among individuals working on codepages for scripts for African languages; 2) facilitate communication among individuals working on input methods for African languages; 3) promote collaboration on other projects on technical aspects of facilitating use of extended Latin-based character sets and non-Western scripts on computers and the internet. Reference pages for discussion on these topics are on the "A12n gateway" at http://www.bisharat.net/A12N. Other related forums of possible interest include: A12n-policy, on language and ICT policies that affect multilingual ICT in Africa http://lists.bisharat.net/mailman/listinfo/a12n-policy, and PAL-en, which focuses on localization projects and issues, http://lists.panafril10n.org/mailman/listinfo/pal-en. Topics relevant to the A12n-collaboration WG have also been discussed on other forums accessible via the A12n gateway mentioned above. The Bisharat! homepage is http://www.bisharat.net/. A12N (or a12n) stands for "Africanization" (a + 12 letters + n) in the same way that I18N (i18n) and L10N (l10n) stand for the dual processes of internationalization of the internet and localization of content & computer software. A12n basically covers i18n and L10n in Africa. To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the A12n-collaboration Archives.
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