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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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# 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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Revision as of 18:00, 31 October 2009

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


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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