I have the pleasure to announce that Dr. Masakatsu Nagai from The University of Tokyo has recently created two documentations for JSesh in Japanese : one for beginners, and an intermediate-level documentation.

Thanks a lot for this documentation work !

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The size of signs made with the latest versions of Inkscape might appear too small. See this bug report for how to solve the problem.

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In this article, I will try to explain what I think ideal encoding of hieroglyphic text should be. I will then proceed to explain what it would mean in practice.

I will probably write multiple versions of this page, after discussion with users.

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Benjamin Wheeler has written a first working port of JSesh for Android phones. I'm very impressed by the result.

You can find it on github. Please note :

• you can get the source code from the web site, or alternatively download the "apk" file in your mobile phone (I'll post a video about h...

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JSesh 7.5.5 has just been released. Be sure to check the release page, which describes the new improvements.

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JSesh 7.4.2 has just been released, with its powerful search engine, but a new version of JSesh is in the forge (probably coined 7.5.something).

I will introduce many small improvements:

• improved exports to Unicode, for both transliteration and glyphs.
• a very convenient system for inserti...

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Boris Jegorovic has kindly sent me a package with two nice fonts which cover the "new" code for the Egyptological yod :

• HGNTransliteration.

Thanks a lot!

If you know of other useful fonts, and think they should be listed on the transliteration page, feel free to mail me.

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JSesh sources are now distributed through github. You are able to follow the latest development there, and for the most computer-savvy among you, to compile the files for yourself.

This has been going on for a while. But I have very recently decided to take advantage of the issue management sy...

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Recent versions of Mac OS X (and Windows 10) suppose that new applications are installed through a “store”.
Apple has pionneered in this domain with the Apple Store since the creation of the IPhone.

Now, stores are very convenient. They give a simple way to install new software, and allow indepen...

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Occasionally, people will express concerns about the use of Java in JSesh. I would like to dispel a few legitimate fears here.

At some point, the web was crawling with warnings about security concerns in Java. But why ?

Java is a programming language and environment. By itself, a Java software c...

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