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== Description ==
== Description ==


Akkadian, covers the following scripts and symbols supported by The Unicode Standard 5.1: Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, some Punctuation and other Symbols, Cuneiform, Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation.
Akkadian covers the following scripts and symbols supported by The Unicode
Standard 5.2: Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, some Punctuation and other
Symbols, Cuneiform, Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation.


It was created by George Douros  
It was created by George Douros.


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| Free to use, modify and distribute
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# It'd be mighty nice to convince the author to add his licensing info in the zip (as a detached txt file, in the pdf, in the font metadata)
# It'd be mighty nice to convince the author to add his licensing info in the zip (as a detached txt file, in the pdf, in the font metadata)
# PDF is nice doc but needs to be compressed or even split in a -doc subpackage


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Latest revision as of 12:32, 16 February 2010

A page of the Fonts Special Interest Group


A font for Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform


Description

Akkadian covers the following scripts and symbols supported by The Unicode Standard 5.2: Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, some Punctuation and other Symbols, Cuneiform, Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation.

It was created by George Douros.


Characteristics

Homepage Format & features License Review reference Koji page pkgdb page
Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts OFL Free to use, modify and distribute 532231 gdouros-akkadian-fonts gdouros-akkadian-fonts


Caveats

  1. It'd be mighty nice to convince the author to add his licensing info in the zip (as a detached txt file, in the pdf, in the font metadata)


Additional information

Needed to complete our Unicode coverage. Plus, the fonts are very nice.



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