Nouvelles de JSesh

Installing JSesh on a recent Windows computer

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On “recent” windows computers (well, after Windows 7 if I remember well, which means recent means something like less than ten years old), the user is protected against installing unsigned softwares.

To make a long story short, this is a trend which began on smartphones, with the creation of app...

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Resources from the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (Glyphs and texts)

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Our colleagues at the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptia are definitly very active regarding open data. They have published a lot of interesting ressources :

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A meta-search engine

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Our colleagues of the Open Richly Annotated Egyptian Corpus have created two meta-search engines.

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Again automated translitteration

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A followup to my old post about deep learning...

An egyptological coverage of my work has been published in Lingua Aegyptia, with full details. I still intend to write something more computer-science oriented, only it always moves to the bottom of my todo list.

Then I have been happy to fi...

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Ongoing work on JSesh arabic version

An Egyptian colleague, Hany ZARIF, has been kind enough to send me a translation of JSesh menus in Arabic. I intend to integrate them in the main version of JSesh. I will probably first propose a specific Arabic version of JSesh. The reason is that it's not sufficient to change the texts : the layou...

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New texts!

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The JSesh text library has been extended with a number of new texts, provided by Mustafa Bilgin and Émil Joubert.

  • A full rendering of the Prisse Papyrus, with the teachings of Geminikai (or Kagemni, whatever rendering you prefer), and Ptahotep, typed by Émil Joubert for the online edition of ...

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News about Brill font

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M. Pim Rietbroek, from Brill has kindly notified me that their font now supported the A7BD code for yod. Thanks a lot !

I have edited and updated the corresponding pages of the JSesh website accordingly.

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News about Unicode and Hieroglyphs

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There is a large ongoing project about extending the capabilities and scope of the current Unicode representation of hieroglyphs, which involves many people, both egyptologists and IT specialists.

Mark-Jan Nederhof, the creator of the Revised Encoding Scheme, is very much involve in this projec...

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Nice (simple) play on determinative

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As I was reading Pierre Tallet and Mark Lehner's book on their recent discoveries, Les papyrus de la mer rouge, I decided to encode for the JSesh libraries the text of a small stela in Serabit el-Khadim, for an official called Sobekḥerḥeb. You can find a nice photo of it p. 122 of Valbelle, Bonnet...

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About sign E240

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Sign E240 E240 is one of those weird old-kingdom signs which puzzle the reader. While looking at one of Ḥsy-rꜥ beautiful panels, I decided to write a short notice about it for JSesh sign information list.

The beginning is a bit pessimistic :

Unsure value and reading, Dilwyn Jones (o.c.) p...

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