Contributions to the Unicode Standard
Details of the organization
Name *
SIL International
Country *
International
Website (URL)
http://www.sil.org
Type *
Civil society entities
Information about the project
Project title *
Contributions to the Unicode Standard
Description *
SIL has submitted and contributed to many proposals to extend the Unicode Standard to include special characters needed to write minority languages. Inclusion in the standard is necessary in order to provide adequate software and operating system support; without such support minority language speakers remain on the far side of the "digital divide." Scripts that SIL has worked with in the past several years include: Tai Viet - entire script Lanna (Tai Tham) - entire script Lisu - entire script Devanagari - extensions Myanmar - extensions Latin - extensions Cyrillic - extensions Arabic - documentation of encoding Dai Banna (New Tai Lue) - extensions Vai - research assistance Cham - research assistance
Project website
http://scripts.sil.org/PCUnicodeDocs
Geographical coverage *
International implementation
Status *
Ongoing
from
Partners
Tai Viet - Tai Viet Working Group, UNESCO, Script Encoding Initiative Vai - Lutheran Bible Translators, Liberia Bible Translation and Literacy Organization Latin - Lutheran Bible Translators, Pioneer Bible Translators Cyrillic - Institute for Bible Translation (Институт перевода Библии) Dai Banna - Payap University, Yunnan Minority Language Commission Lanna - Payap University, Michael Everson (Evertype), Chiang Mai University Lisu - Yunnan Minority Language Commission, et al. (see acknowledgements: http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3424.pdf) Myanmar - Payap University, Michael Everson (Evertype)
WSIS information
WSIS action lines related to this project
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Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content
Millenium Declaration Goals related to this project
Goal 1: Eradicate poverty and hunger
Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education
Goal 3: Promote gender equality & empower women
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
Goal 5: Improve maternal health
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Project type *
Project