After over 35 years of work by numerous Christian clergymen and linguists including Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther, the  orthography of the Yoruba language was established during the Conference on Orthography in 1875, organized by Church Missionary Society in Lagos.

Yoruba language text is composed from base Latin characters with additional glyphs from Latin Extended pages and Combining diacritical marks pages to denote the high and low toned sounds of the words.  Yoruba text thus extends beyond the range of ASCII which is limited to 128 characters and had been used as the text encoding protocol in most Operating Systems.

Unicode was introduced to allow character text from all languages and scripts to transfer and display properly no matter the language set of the Operating System or application. Setting internet browser character encoding to Unicode allows a user to enjoy content from a multitude of languages, including Yoruba language content. 

UTF-8 is  encoding protocol implemented by Unicode that has become the standard for Email, and Web pages.

Set firefox text encoding to UTF-8

Set Internet Explorer text encoding to UTF-8

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