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Hurrian Cuneiform Signs

Richard Wordingham — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:22:35 GMT

I am having difficulty interpreting some Hurrian 'transliterations'. The problem is that some readings are outside the Akkadian range, and the texts are too

Re: Fwd: Typeset and typewritten Arabic before computer typesetting

Peter T. Daniels — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:27:12 GMT

A Selectric ball carried 92 glyphs, and they were very cleverly designed. Arabic instructional materials from the 1970s were frequently typed that way (see the

Fwd: Typeset and typewritten Arabic before computer typesetting

Nicholas Bodley — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:18:08 GMT

Dear Qalamites, While not strictly on-topic, this message (a reply to a message I'd sent) seemed to be of uncommon interest. Mr. Hosny is one of the people who

Re: samyak

timpart@... — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:58:39 GMT

... Want something that used to be on the internet? The Wayback machine is your friend...

Re: samyak

Peter T. Daniels — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:37:07 GMT

Someone emailed me a link to an archived version of the gnowledge page, whose old link for both versions of Samyak worked (the Unicode Gallery is not aware of

Re: samyak

Lorna_Priest@... — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:31:00 GMT

... Are you looking specifically for the Sans serif font? You can download Samyak here: http://sarovar.org/projects/samyak/ but it doesn't include the sans

samyak

Peter T. Daniels — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:59:32 GMT

Does anyone know where to find the font SamyakSans.ttf? It covers a number of Indic scripts. Every link for it is to a defunct page at "gnowledge.org." --

Re: Glagolitic Unicode font

Richard Ishida — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:25:36 GMT

For those who are unaware, I guess Peter is referring to UniView http://rishida.net/scripts/uniview/?block=glagolitic Just thought I'd check that you're aware

Re: Glagolitic Unicode font

Andrew Cunningham — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:07:51 GMT

To add to Lorna's comments, its the same on Vista. Essentially Windows Character Map is limited to a subset of the BMP. You many want to look at alternative

Re: Glagolitic Unicode font

Peter T. Daniels — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:33:49 GMT

Ishida doesn't have a "picker" for Glagolitic, but I found his master utility that provides far more information about penguins than anyone could possibly

Re: Armenian Unicode font

Peter T. Daniels — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:52:19 GMT

No, at some link from the "Japanese Unicode Gallery," the one that didn't know about the page of Armenian fonts, to some download source or other. -- Peter T.

Re: Armenian Unicode font

Anton Sherwood — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:39:20 GMT

... Oh? I wnoder where. My name does show up in quite a lot of places, in blog comments and the like. -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/

Re: Armenian Unicode font --> Walloon

Nicholas Bodley — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:29:51 GMT

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:05:17 -0400, Anton Sherwood ... Note the word "pådje"; that seems to be Wallonian. I tried Wikipedia, first, and saw

Re: Glagolitic Unicode font

Lorna_Priest@... — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:26:12 GMT

... Since Andrew answered the other question, I'll try this one. I have found that Windows Character map on XP and Office 2003 only recognize blocks that were

Re: Glagolitic Unicode font

Andrew Cunningham — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:49:26 GMT

The use of combining diacritics with a script is dependent on Uniscribe supporting the appropriate features for the scripts required. Word is OpenType savvy