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Statistics Canada’s 2011 Census identified more than 60 Indigenous languages in Canada, and the number of officially recognized geographical names in these languages is constantly growing. The Secretariat of the Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC) manages and maintains the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB), and has developed solutions for displaying these geographical names. While many languages are properly represented using the Latin alphabet (used for English and French), other Indigenous languages require the use of diacritics or syllabics in order to properly spell and represent the geographical names used by Indigenous communities. The attached paper (see below) describes efforts by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) to represent Indigenous geographical names in Canada. Efforts were expanded tremendously when the CGNDB was converted to the UTF-8 encoding (or Universal Coded Character Set Transformation Format – 8-bit).

How UTF-8 revolutionized the Writing of Indigenous Geographical Names (in English)

UTF-8 a révolutionné l'écriture des langues autochtones (in French)