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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en-US"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">  <title>African Language Enablement (afrlreq) | afrlreq</title> <meta name="generator" content="Jekyll v3.10.0" /> <meta property="og:title" content="African Language Enablement (afrlreq)" /> <meta property="og:locale" content="en_US" /> <meta name="description" content="African language enablement for the Web" /> <meta property="og:description" content="African language enablement for the Web" /> <link rel="canonical" href="https://w3c.github.io/afrlreq/home.html" /> <meta property="og:url" content="https://w3c.github.io/afrlreq/home.html" /> <meta property="og:site_name" content="afrlreq" /> <meta property="og:type" content="website" /> <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary" /> <meta property="twitter:title" content="African Language Enablement (afrlreq)" /> <script type="application/ld+json"> {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","description":"African language enablement for the Web","headline":"African Language Enablement (afrlreq)","url":"https://w3c.github.io/afrlreq/home.html"}</script>  <link rel="stylesheet" href="/afrlreq/assets/css/style.css?v=bab15efb2d30ef4eae55cf47d3e214bc719b3b7f">      </head> <body> <div class="container-lg px-3 my-5 markdown-body"> <h1><a href="https://w3c.github.io/afrlreq/">afrlreq</a></h1> <h1 id="african-language-enablement-afrlreq">African Language Enablement (afrlreq)</h1> <p>This is the place to explore gaps in African language support on the Web and in eBooks, and to document requirements.</p> <p>We aim to address the problem that local users don’t know how to tell the W3C what problems exist for support of their language on the Web, and the W3C doesn’t know how to contact people who can help when questions arise.</p> <p>Topics for discussion are suggested by <a href="https://www.w3.org/International/i18n-activity/templates/gap-analysis/gap-analysis_template.html">the gap-analysis template</a>. This work feeds into the <a href="https://www.w3.org/International/typography/gap-analysis/language-matrix.html">language matrix</a> which provides a heat-map for language issues on the Web.</p> <p>See also work on <a href="https://github.com/w3c/alreq">Arabic & Persian</a> and <a href="https://github.com/w3c/elreq">Amharic & Tigriña</a> languages. That work will not be duplicated here.</p> <hr /> <h2 id="help-wanted">Help wanted!</h2> <p><strong>We’re looking for information about these writing systems. Follow the links for specific questions.</strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://github.com/w3c/afrlreq/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3As%3Aadlm+label%3Aquestion">Adlam</a> • <a href="https://github.com/w3c/afrlreq/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3As%3Ankoo+label%3Aquestion">N’Ko</a> • <a href="https://github.com/w3c/afrlreq/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3As%3Aarab+label%3Aquestion">Ajami</a></strong></p> <hr /> <h3 id="key-links">Key links</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/w3c/afrlreq">GitHub repo</a> • <a href="https://github.com/w3c/afrlreq/issues">Discussion threads</a> • <a href="https://www.w3.org/International/afrlreq/charter/">Charter</a></p> <h3 id="resource--requirement-docs">Resource & requirement docs</h3> <ul> <li> <p><strong>Adlam Script Resources</strong> • <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/adlm-lreq/">DNOTE</a> • <a href="https://w3c.github.io/afrlreq/adlm/"><em>Editor’s draft</em></a>• <a href="https://github.com/w3c/afrlreq/commits/gh-pages/adlm"><em>Latest commits</em></a></p> </li> <li> <p><strong>N’Ko Script Resources</strong> • <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/nkoo-lreq/">DNOTE</a> • <a href="https://w3c.github.io/afrlreq/nko/"><em>Editor’s draft</em></a>• <a href="https://github.com/w3c/afrlreq/commits/gh-pages/nko"><em>Latest commits</em></a></p> </li> </ul> <h3 id="gap-documents">Gap documents</h3> <ul> <li> <p><strong>Adlam Gap Analysis</strong> • <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/adlm-gap">DNOTE</a> • <a href="https://www.w3.org/International/afrlreq/gap-analysis/adlm-gap"><em>Editor’s draft</em></a> • <a href="https://github.com/w3c/afrlreq/commits/gh-pages/gap-analysis/adlm-gap.html"><em>Latest commits</em></a></p> </li> <li> <p><strong>N’Ko Gap Analysis</strong> • <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/nkoo-gap">DNOTE</a> • <a href="https://www.w3.org/International/afrlreq/gap-analysis/nkoo-gap"><em>Editor’s draft</em></a>• <a href="https://github.com/w3c/afrlreq/commits/gh-pages/gap-analysis/nkoo-gap.html"><em>Latest commits</em></a></p> </li> </ul> <h3 id="discussions">Discussions</h3> <ul> <li> <p><strong>Adlam</strong> • <a href="https://github.com/w3c/afrlreq/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3As%3Aadlm+label%3Aquestion"><em>Questions</em></a> • <a href="https://github.com/w3c/afrlreq/labels/doc%3Aadlm"><em>Gap reports</em></a> • <a href="https://github.com/w3c/afrlreq/issues?q=is%3Aopen+label%3As%3Aadlm+-label%3Aquestion"><em>Other</em></a> • <a href="https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues?q=is%3Aopen+label%3Aafrlreq+label%3Aspec-type-issue"><em>Spec issues</em></a></p> </li> <li> <p><strong>N’Ko</strong> • <a href="https://github.com/w3c/afrlreq/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3As%3Ankoo+label%3Aquestion"><em>Questions</em></a> • <a href="https://github.com/w3c/afrlreq/labels/doc%3Ankoo"><em>Gap reports</em></a> • <a href="https://github.com/w3c/afrlreq/issues?q=is%3Aopen+label%3As%3Aadlm+-label%3Aquestion"><em>Other</em></a> • <a href="https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues?q=is%3Aopen+label%3Aafrlreq+label%3Aspec-type-issue"><em>Spec issues</em></a></p> </li> </ul> <h3 id="feedback">Feedback</h3> <p>Please use the <a href="https://github.com/w3c/afrlreq/issues">GitHub issue list</a> to report issues for language support, for discussions, and to send feedback about documents. (Learn <a href="https://www.w3.org/International/i18n-activity/guidelines/issues.html">how GitHub issues work</a>.)</p> <p>Note that the public-i18n-africa mailing list is used to send notification digests & meeting minutes. It is <strong>not</strong> for technical discussion.</p> <h3 id="participate">Participate</h3> <p>You can participate in the work at various levels. In order of increasing commitment, these include List subscriber, Participant, Editor, and Chair. <a href="https://www.w3.org/International/i18n-drafts/pages/languagedev_participation.html">Explore the options</a>.</p> <p><strong>To just follow the work:</strong> Rather than ‘Watch’ this repository, <a href="mailto:public-i18n-africa-request@w3.org?subject=subscribe">subscribe</a> to the <a href="https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-africa/">public-i18n-africa</a> mailing list. That list is notified (no more than once a day, and in digest form), about changes to issues in this repository, but also about other W3C Working Group issues related to the African writing systems.</p> <p><strong>To contribute content:</strong> All contributors must read and agree with <a href="/afrlreq/CONTRIBUTING.md">CONTRIBUTING.md</a>.</p> <p><strong>To become a participant, editor, or chair:</strong> contact <a href="mailto:ishida@w3.org">Richard Ishida</a>. We welcome participation requests.</p> <h3 id="contacts">Contacts</h3> <ul> <li>W3C staff: <a href="mailto:ishida@w3.org">Richard Ishida</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="links-to-practical-help">Links to practical help</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-africa/">Mail archive</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/wiki/Writing-i18n-tests">Writing i18n tests</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.w3.org/International/i18n-activity/guidelines/process.html">Practical tips for task forces</a> (See also the links for editors below)</li> <li>Action tracker (tbd)</li> <li>Meeting info (tbd)</li> </ul> <h3 id="links-to-background-information">Links to background information</h3> <p>The following information describes work going on at the W3C to support languages on the Web.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.w3.org/International/typography/gap-analysis/language-matrix.html">Language support heatmap (matrix)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.w3.org/International/i18n-drafts/pages/language_framework_overview.html">Analysing support for text layout on the Web</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.w3.org/International/i18n-drafts/nav/languagedev">Overview of language enablement work in progress</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.w3.org/International/i18n-drafts/pages/languagedev_participation">Get involved with Language Enablement</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/w3c/typography/wiki/Setting-up-a-Gap-Analysis-Project">Setting up a Gap Analysis Project</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.w3.org/International/sponsorship/">Internationalization Sponsorship Program</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="links-for-editors">Links for editors</h3> <p>If you end up creating a document, you should be familiar with and use the following:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.w3.org/International/i18n-activity/guidelines/github">Github guidelines for working with i18n documents</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.w3.org/International/i18n-activity/guidelines/editing">Editorial guidelines for working with i18n documents</a></li> </ul> </div> <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/anchor-js/4.1.0/anchor.min.js" integrity="sha256-lZaRhKri35AyJSypXXs4o6OPFTbTmUoltBbDCbdzegg=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> <script>anchors.add();</script> </body> </html>