[HN Gopher] VEgA - Vocabulary of Ancient Egyptian
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       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!)
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       | good to see such fine work!
        
       | Traubenfuchs wrote:
       | Did you know? You can use hieroglyphs right here, right now and
       | pretty much everywhere else:
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       | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Egyptian_hieroglyphs
        
         | jheriko wrote:
         | the unicode implementation is garbage...
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         | see?
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         | also wikihiero is crappy.
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         | 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...
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         | also most other tools suck.
        
       | Jun8 wrote:
       | For similar large scale efforts to make ancient language texts
       | available online with translations see:
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       | * CDLI, https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/, for cuneiform
       | (tablets, seals, and other objects)
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       | * 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.
        
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