Are you fed up with seeing Tåîchô in print when it’s supposed to be T???cho??
That’s what you see if WinMac Dene fonts are not installed on your computer.

Unicode frees us from depending on the WinMac Dene fonts.  They were a great advance when I developed them back in 1995, but technology has progressed since then.   Since Windows Vista, all new computers come with the fonts needed for the Dene Languages already built into the operating system.  No need to download any new fonts.  And to type, all you need is a simple keyboard program.

Here’s a sample of T???cho? sentences typed using Unicode characters.
From Mary Adele Flunkie, for Aboriginal Languages Month.

Dze?e?? Ta??a??t’e ko??ta T???cho? yat??? t’a? gahde.
Dze?e?? Ta??a??t’e nax??ko?? T???cho? yat??? t’a? gahde.
T???cho? k’e gahde.
T???cho? ts’o? Do? ?aht’e ne !
Det’o?choza? s??? Do?ne So??o??l????? sa ho?t’e, ey?t’a? Det’o?choza? k’e s??? e?ets’a?ts’?d??.  T???cho? Yat??? zo? t’a? gots’?de.
T???cho? yat??? t’a gahde ha d???? n??de?, do? T???cho? yat??? t’a? godee s??? woa?hkw’o?.

Dze?e?? Ta??a??t’e chekoa g?n??ht?’e?ko?? T???cho? yat??? t’a gahde.
Whae?hdo?o?? god??? t’a? do? nax?xe? godo aah???h.
T???cho? Do? ts’????l?? s??? mas?? ts’????wo? xe? go??na? ho?t’e.
T???cho? yat??? ey?ts’o? T???cho? na?owoo? gha dze?dee? xo?ts’??hts??.
T???cho? yat??? t’a gahade ha d???? n??de?,  yat? dez??-lea t’a? gahde ha wodaa?hdza?h.

Using Unicode also enables you to type in places where you cannot choose a font, like Facebook and Skype.

See links and instructions for getting the Unicode keyboard here:
http://denefont.blogspot.ca/

There is no longer any need to wonder if someone else has the fonts installed to read what we intended to write.

Dene Keyboards – because it’s not about fonts anymore.