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The fc fonts [ ɛf ˈsiː ~] ( English ) are an extension of the Computer Modern font family for African languages with the Latin alphabet (such as the Africa alphabet ). The origin of the acronym “fc” is the term Af rican C omputer Modern (English).

The fc fonts were developed by Jörg Knappen between 1990 and 1992 and implemented in METAFONT . Their coding , the T4 coding , comprises 256  characters (see also character set ) and supports those so-called “critical languages ” of Africa, which are written in the Latin alphabet.

All fc fonts are free software under the GNU General Public License .

T4 coding

The following coding table shows the differences to ISO 8859-1 highlighted in yellow.

code … 0 …1 … 2 … 3 … 4 … 5 … 6 … 7 …8th … 9 … A … B ... C … D … E ... F
0 ... `
U + 0060 		´
U + 00B4 		U
+ 02C6 		˜
U + 02DC 		¨
U + 00A8 		˝
U + 02DD 		˚
U + 02DA 		U
+ 02C7 		˘
U + 02D8 		¯
U + 00AF 		˙
U + 02D9 		¸
U + 00B8 		˛
U + 02DB 		'
U + 201A 		‹
U + 2039 		›
U + 203A
1… “
U + 201C 		"
U + 201D 		"
U + 201E 		«
U + 00AB 		»
U + 00BB 		-
U + 2013 		-
U + 2014 		ZWSP
U + 200B 		₀
- 		ı
U + 0131 		ȷ
U + 0237 		ff
U + FB00 		fi
U + FB01 		fl
U + FB02 		ffi
U + FB03 		ffl
U + FB04
2… ␣
U + 2423 		! " # $ % & '
U + 2019 		( ) * + , - . /
3… 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 : ; < = > ?
4… @ A. B. C. D. E. F. G H I. J K L. M. N O
5… P Q R. S. T U V W. X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _
6… '
U + 2018 		a b c d e f G H i j k l m n O
7… p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~ -
U + 002D
8th… Ɓ
U + 0181 		Ɗ
U + 018A 		Ɛ
U + 0190 		Ǝ
U + 018E 		Ƒ
U + 0191 		Ě
U + 011A 		Ɣ
U + 0194 		Ħ
U + 0126 		Ƙ
U + 0198 		Ɲ
U + 019D 		Ɔ
U + 0186 		Ń
U + 0143 		Ʃ
U + 01A9 		Ŋ
U + 014A 		Ʋ
U + 01B2 		Ƴ
U + 01B3
9 ... Ƈ
U + 0187 		Ƥ
U + 01A4 		Š
U + 0160 		Ṅ
U + 1E44 		Ṉ
U + 1E48 		Ṣ
U + 1E62 		Ʒ
U + 01B7 		Ŧ
U + 0166 		Ė
U + 0116 		Ẹ
U + 1EB8 		Ƭ
U + 01AC 		Ʈ
U + 01AE 		ʧ
U + 02A7 		f‍j
- 		đ
U + 0111 		̏
U + 030F
A ... ɓ
U + 0253 		ɗ
U + 0257 		ɛ
U + 025B 		ə
U + 0259 		ƒ
U + 0192 		ě
U + 011B 		ɣ
U + 0263 		ħ
U + 0127 		ƙ
U + 0199 		ɲ
U + 0272 		ɔ
U + 0254 		ń
U + 0144 		ʃ
U + 0283 		ŋ
U + 014B 		ʋ
U + 028B 		ƴ
U + 01B4
B ... ƈ
U + 0188 		ƥ
U + 01A5 		š
U + 0161 		ṇ
U + 1E47 		ṉ
U + 1E49 		ṣ
U + 1E63 		ʒ
U + 0292 		ŧ
U + 0167 		ė
U + 0117 		ẹ
U + 1EB9 		ƭ
U + 01AD 		ʈ
U + 0288 		U
+ 030E 		¡
U + 00A1 		¿
U + 00BF 		̍
U + 030D
C ... Ɩ
U + 0196 		Ị
U + 1ECA 		̃Ɛ
- 		Ã
U + 00C3 		Ḿ
U + 1E3E 		Ɔ̃
- 		Æ Ç È É Ê Ë ̠E
- 		Ē
U + 0112 		Ẽ
U + 1EBC 		Ĩ
U + 0128
D ... Ð Ñ O Ȯ
U + 022E 		O O Ö Œ
U + 0152 		O Ọ
U + 1ECC 		̠O
- 		Ō
U + 014C 		Ǒ
U + 01D1 		Ụ
U + 1EE4 		Ũ
U + 0168 		̷
U + 0337
E ... ɩ
U + 0269 		ị
U + 1ECB 		̃Ɛ
- 		ã
U + 00E3 		ḿ
U + 1E3F 		ɔ̃
- 		æ ç è é ê ë ̠E
- 		ē
U + 0113 		ẽ
U + 1EBD 		ĩ
U + 0129
F ... ð ñ O ȯ
U + 022F 		O O ö œ
U + 0153 		O ọ
U + 1ECD 		̠O
- 		ō
U + 014D 		ǒ
U + 01D2 		ụ
U + 1EE5 		ũ
U + 0169 		ß
U + 00DF

Footnotes

  1. ↑ according to US Department of Education definition of all languages with more than one million speakers
  2. ↑ The TeX symbol / perthousandzero is used to generate a alcohol symbol etc. from the percent symbol . It has no equivalent in Unicode
  3. ↑ Great Esh : Representation in Fc fonts as small Esh ʃ (see AC hex )
  4. ^ Ligature
  5. ↑ double grave accent
  6. ↑ universal accent
  7. ↑ double universal accent
  8. ↑ slash as in Ł

See also

literature

  • Jörg Knappen: Fonts for Africa: The fc Fonts . In: TUGboat . No. 14/2 , 1993, pp. 104 (English).

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