Re: "Writing systems of Africa"

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Don Osborn" <dzo@...> wrote:

>
> FYI, I put up a short page summarizing writing systems used in Africa
> (past and present, plus some current issues) on Wikipedia at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_systems_of_Africa .

I'm intrigued by the statement, 'other questions such as the handling
of diacritics in extended Latin scripts are still being raised'. Is
this simply a matter of font capabilities and issues also relevant,
say, to French?

Richard.