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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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