Fonts for African Languages

One of my colleagues is doing ethnographic research in Benin. He wants a font for his OS X computers (10.3 and 10.4) for the Fongbe language and creole languages of Caribbean.
Does anyone know if there are Mac font these languages?

One of my colleagues is doing ethnographic research
in Benin. He wants a font for his OS X computers
(10.3 and 10.4) for the Fongbe language and creole
languages of Caribbean.
Does anyone know if there are Mac font these
languages?
It's not necessary to have a Mac font -- OS X can use most Windows fonts as well. Only someone who knows what characters are needed for the specific languages can evaluate whether a particular font will have what is necessary, but here are some fonts that have most Latin and IPA characters:
Lucida Grande (already in OS X)
Gentium
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?siteid=nrsi&itemid=Gentium
Doulos SIL
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=DoulosSILfont
Charis SIL
http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software.asp?id=112
PS In order to input odd characters, you probably need to use the Character Palette or make up a custom keyboard layout. A tool for doing the latter can be found here:
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?siteid=nrsi&itemid=ukelele

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