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== Description ==
== Description ==
Aegyptus encodes over 7000 hieroglyphs.


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


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== Caveats ==
== 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)
# It'd be mighty nice to convince the author to add his licensing info in the zip (as a detached txt file)
# PDF is nice doc but needs to be compressed or even split in a -doc subpackage


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{{:Fonts_SIG_signature}} [[Category:Font wishlist]] [[Category:Technical fonts]]
{{:Fonts_SIG_signature}} [[Category:In-progress fonts]] [[Category:Technical fonts]]


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Revision as of 20:25, 21 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


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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