Gdouros Aegyptus fonts: Difference between revisions

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A font for Egyptian hieroglyphs

Description

Aegyptus encodes over 7000 hieroglyphs. More than 5000 of those have a graphical representation and cover the complete set of glyphs presented in proposals to encode Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Meroitic in the SMP of the UCS. The font also covers Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, Egyptian Transliteration characters, some Punctuation and other Symbols. Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Meroitic, as yet unsupported by Unicode, are allocated in the Supplementary Private Use Plane 15.

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	④	⑤	⑥

Caveats

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

Additional information

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

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+''A font for Egyptian hieroglyphs''
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 == Description ==
-Some high-quality fonts for ancient scripts, that escape traditional classifications.
+Aegyptus encodes over 7000 hieroglyphs. More than 5000 of those have a graphical representation and cover the complete set of glyphs presented in proposals to encode Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Meroitic in the SMP of the UCS. The font also covers Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, Egyptian Transliteration characters, some Punctuation and other Symbols. Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Meroitic, as yet unsupported by Unicode, are allocated in the Supplementary Private Use Plane 15.
+It was created by George Douros
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 == Characteristics ==
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+| Free to use, modify and distribute
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 == 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, 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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+== Additional information ==
+Needed to complete our Unicode coverage. Plus, the fonts are very nice.
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