N'Ko Alphabet - N'ko and Computers

N'ko and Computers

With the increasing use of computers and the subsequent desire to provide universal access to information technology, the challenge arose of developing ways to use N'ko on computers. From the 1990s on, there were efforts to develop fonts and even web content by adapting other software and fonts. An MS-DOS word processor called Koma Kuda was developed by Prof. Baba Mamadi Diané from the University of Cairo. However the lack of intercompatibility inherent in such solutions was a block to further development.

Pango 1.18 and GNOME 2.20 have native support for the N'ko languages. An iOS app for tweeting in N'ko, TwTool, is available on the Apple app store. Another iOS app, for sending email in N'ko is also available. Triage-N'ko. There is a virtual keyboard named nko-virtual-keyboard to type N'ko characters on Windows Operating System.