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Ethnologue > Software Tools > LinguaLinks > Fonts and keyboards

Fonts and keyboards

LinguaLinks provides resources to assist you in setting up your language project.

Scenario 1. A generic character set, language definition, and keyboard file are available in LinguaLinks that meet all or most of your orthography needs. You are working in a language that uses regional or language-family standards for orthographies.

Generic language definitions are available in these languages

ANSI	Mixteco (Mexico)
Cameroon	Papua New Guinea
Cote d'Ivoire	Solomon Islands
Ghana	Togo/Benin
Kenya	Zapoteco (Mexico)

To view the character sets used by these languages, use the Help index in LinguaLinks to find generic language.

Setup involves

• associating a generic language definition with your language project
• installing the corresponding fonts in Windows
• installing Keyman keyboard files for the fonts, and
• using LinguaLinks tools to modify the character set and language definition to fit your orthography needs if necessary.

Scenario 2. A character set and font that work for your orthographies are already in LinguaLinks, but there is no generic language definition, or the one provided does not meet your needs.

Setup involves creating encodings for your language definition from one or more existing character sets. You must define multigraphs (character combinations that represent a single phoneme) and a sort order for each language encoding.

Character sets provided in LinguaLinks

Americanist phonetic	International Phonetic Alphabet
ANSI	Kenya
ANSI Standard (transduced)	Latin2
ASCI	Latin3
Arabic Stndard (transduced)	Latin4
Arabic Transliterated (transduced)	MAC extended
Cameroon	Mixtec
Côte d'Ivoire	Panjabi
Cyrillic	Papua New Guinea
Devanagri	Solomon Islands
Ghana	Thai
Greek	Togo/Benin
Hebrew Standard (transduced)	Zapotec
Hebrew Transliterated (transduced)

Fonts and keyboard files are found in the Fonts directory on the LinguaLinks CD-ROM.

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