Languages
The cultural and linguistic diversity in our communities is increasing, providing new language communities for public libraries and community based organisations to support and provide services for. Information technology is becoming an increasingly important tool. The possibility of supporting emerging community languages through public access computers and public access to the internet offers new opportunities for our communities.
Unfortunately, some languages are better supported by technology than others. There is a technological divide following linguistic boundaries, which needs to be addressed.
The Open Road will explore Unicode language support issues in minority and emerging community languages within Australia
With the growth in Unicode support by software developers, it is becoming possible to leverage new software developments for these languages. In order to facilitate the movement from legacy or custom encodings, this site will focus on Unicode solutions for the languages covered.