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''A font for Egyptian hieroglyphs''
 
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== Description ==
== Description ==
Aegyptus encodes over 7000 hieroglyphs.


Some high-quality fonts for ancient scripts, that escape traditional classifications.
There is no standard for Egyptian Hieroglyphs or Meroitic, so they are
allocated in the Supplementary Private Use Plane 15. The font also covers Basic
Latin, Egyptian Transliteration characters, some Punctuation and other Symbols,
and the Gardiner set of 1071 Egyptian Hieroglyphs, now suppored by The Unicode
Standard 5.2 in the new SMP block 13000 - 1342F.
 
It was created by George Douros, mainly based on the book Hieroglyphica,
PIREI I², 2000.
 
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== Characteristics ==
== Characteristics ==
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| [http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/index.html Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts]
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== Caveats ==
== Caveats ==


A Greek speaker is needed to ask politely the author to do proper releases (versioned archives with license text that does not need an hex tool to be extracted).
# It'd be mighty nice to convince the author to add his licensing info in the zip (as a detached txt file)
 
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== Additional information ==
 
Needed to complete our Unicode coverage. Plus, the fonts are very nice.
 
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Latest revision as of 17:25, 31 October 2009

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A font for Egyptian hieroglyphs


Description

Aegyptus encodes over 7000 hieroglyphs.

There is no standard for Egyptian Hieroglyphs or Meroitic, so they are allocated in the Supplementary Private Use Plane 15. The font also covers Basic Latin, Egyptian Transliteration characters, some Punctuation and other Symbols, and the Gardiner set of 1071 Egyptian Hieroglyphs, now suppored by The Unicode Standard 5.2 in the new SMP block 13000 - 1342F.

It was created by George Douros, mainly based on the book Hieroglyphica, PIREI I², 2000.


Characteristics

Homepage Format & features License Review reference Koji page pkgdb page
Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts OFL Free to use, modify and distribute 530190 gdouros-aegyptus-fonts gdouros-aegyptus-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)


Additional information

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



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