[HN Gopher] VEgA - Vocabulary of Ancient Egyptian ___________________________________________________________________ VEgA - Vocabulary of Ancient Egyptian Author : downvotetruth Score : 45 points Date : 2023-09-15 06:44 UTC (16 hours ago) (HTM) web link (vega-vocabulaire-egyptien-ancien.fr) (TXT) w3m dump (vega-vocabulaire-egyptien-ancien.fr) | jheriko wrote: | fascinating. the software landscape of egyptology is mostly a | barren wasteland with a few superstars dotted around (Serge | Rosmorduc stands out!) | | good to see such fine work! | Traubenfuchs wrote: | Did you know? You can use hieroglyphs right here, right now and | pretty much everywhere else: | | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Egyptian_hieroglyphs | jheriko wrote: | the unicode implementation is garbage... | | | see? | | also wikihiero is crappy. | | meanwhile, i don't suck at rudimentary code and banged this out | quickly after self-teaching to fix it after the fact: | https://github.com/semiessessi/beautiful-hieroglyphs/blob/ma... | | also most other tools suck. | Jun8 wrote: | For similar large scale efforts to make ancient language texts | available online with translations see: | | * CDLI, https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/, for cuneiform | (tablets, seals, and other objects) | | * Perseus Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/item/2004564290/, | for ancient and classical literature (started with Ancient greek | and expanded to Latin) | | If a small number of rich people donated a few million each, we'd | have all tablets and other unread documents read in a short time | (academic restrictions on access may be a problem) and they would | look and knowledgeable. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-09-15 23:00 UTC)