Encoding West African Adinkra sysmbols

Martin J. Dürst duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp
Sun Jan 22 20:37:32 CST 2017


On 2017/01/22 03:56, Kyekyeku Opoku-Pong wrote:
> Hello,I hope this is the right forum to seek help.I am looking for the possibility of encoding Adinkra symbols used extensively in Ghana and West Africa. There is information on Adinkra symbols and their meanings at: http://www.adinkra.org/htmls/adinkra_index.htm
> How do I go about the process of getting the symbols approved for Unicode.
> Thank you,Kyekyeku

The two main things would be:

1) Write a proposal
2) Document usage (this is part of the proposal, but it is important to 
show that these symbols are actually used in running texts, not e.g. 
just as decorations on walls,...)

Regards,   Martin.


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