1. Unicode Implementation in the Yale Catalog
With reference to African scripts
Charles Riley ~ Yale University Library
New England Code4Lib, Hampshire College, Dec. 5, 2012

2. Enabling search & display in non-Latin scripts
Traditionally supported in libraries for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Yiddish
Also now supported (since 2006, by OCLC) for Thai, Tamil, Bengali and Devanagari
OCLC has more recently introduced support for Ethiopic, Syriac, and Armenian
Becoming increasingly important for African scripts with successive releases of Unicode (5.0 and later)

3. African scripts in Unicode
Ethiopic
Vai
Tifinagh
N’ko
Osmanya
Bassa Vah
Mende Kikakui
Bamum
Adlam

4. African scripts in the Yale Library Catalog
Ethiopic
Vai
Tifinagh
N’ko

5. Establishing Documentation for Cataloging Reference
Ethiopic:
Extended Latin: guide-to-extended-latin-used-in-african-languages
Vai:
Tifinagh:
N’ko: [Forthcoming]

6. Screenshots of sample records
N’ko (on Windows 10,
Edge Browser)
Vai (on Windows 10,
Edge Browser)

7. Examples of support still awaited
Windows
Mac
Font for Adlam script
Browser support for Bamum, Bassa Vah, Mende Kikakui
Font for Adlam script
Browser support for Bassa Vah, Mende Kikakui

8. Further work to be done Script Encoding Text Processing Bété Kpelle
Loma
Masaba
Translation of 1913 Vai manuscript (nearly finished)
Transcription of Bamum manuscripts in the Endangered Archives program and at the Musée du Quai Branly
Romanization tables