[Cuis-dev] Ancient Fonts TTF

Juan Vuletich juan at jvuletich.org
Mon Apr 5 12:19:26 PDT 2021


On 3/31/2021 6:15 PM, Eric Gade via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Hi Juan,
>
> As I mentioned in your excellent talk today, here is an example of an 
> ancient font widely used within the Ancient Near East community:
> https://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/cuneifont/
>
> The two fonts here most used are the "Neo-Assyrian" (Assurbanipal) and 
> "Old Babylonian" (Santakku). There are examples on the web page itself 
> of these signs being used in the text.
>
> Let me know if you have other questions, thanks for all the great work!
>
> -- 
> Eric

Hi Eric,

I just took a look and I can confirm that the TrueType font reader needs 
some work to be able to deal with glyphs outside the Unicode Basic 
Multilingual Plane.

Thanks,

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