Podcast on localisation and Central African languages

The problem with using web texts for many languages is that many people do not have the ability to enter diacritics or characters from extended
character sets from their keyboard, and so they simply leave them off (and so Lingala "likɔngá" becomes "likonga"), or use incorrect diacritics
(e.g. using acute/grave in place of the macron in Hawaiian, Maori, etc.). Information is usually lost in this conversion, and indeed most languages
that use diacritics have many pairs of words that differ only in diacritical marks; these distinctions are lost when texts are written in plain ASCII.
The aim of charlifter is to undo this lossy conversion, and "lift" the text back to its proper form.

This web site present the name of African trees in different languages.
Today there are 375 names, 17 languages.
The language of communication is French, but browing is very simple.

Unicode-Afrique est un forum sur Yahoogroupes. Il existe pour : donner publicité aux projets en Afrique utilisant l'Unicode; discuter des questions et problèmes pratiques avec Unicode et les jeux de caractères pour les langues africaines; et partager des expériences utiles sur le développement et utilisation des polices unicodes pour les langues africaines. Cet e-groupe fait partie d'une "famille" de forums de discussion sur la rencontre des langues africaines et NTIC (les autres forums sont accessibles à la page portail "A12n," dont le lien se trouve au fond de cette page).

The Crúbadán Project is devoted to creating basic language technology for minority languages and under-resourced languages using web-crawling and statistical techniques. As of early 2008 we have collected text corpora for 419 languages, including more than 125 African languages, and have used these to create open source spell checkers for more than 20 languages. Please contact Kevin Scannell (http://borel.slu.edu/) if you are interested in developing open source resources for other African languages using these data.