JSesh News
I'm currently preparing a new JSesh release, with few new functionalities, but some new texts and glyphs.
In particular, I'm integrating parts of Peter Dils' comments. Only a part, mainly because of my limited human resources... I also need time to code JSesh, Ramses, teach computing, and do a b...
Dr. Peter Dils, from Leipzig, sent me (a long time ago) a list of signs for which the Hieroglyphica had significantly different shapes from the signs in JSesh.
Some of those differences hint about problems in the way we encode hieroglyphs - basically, upon what should be encoded or not. But othe...
The JSesh fonts evolve from time to time. I will try to release catalogues like the one for Jsesh 7.5.5 I have released at Zenodo.
But catalogue don't allow one to track evolution in the individual signs in an easy way.
So, I have automated the process of sign comparison. If you select the S...
The team working on hieroglyphs and unicode is working hard, and Andrew Glass, who is a specialist of OpenTypes, has produced a very nice font which can handle the new Unicode operators.
You will find it in Andrew Glass's font tools project.
If you want the font, you can download it from this...
A few years ago, we were asked to produce a number of signs, mainly from the Old Kingdom.
M. Serge P. Thomas (mostly) and Serge Rosmorduc (for a small part) have therefore produced versions of these signs. Furthermore, in addition to those, M. Thomas has sent a set of interesting revisions of sign...
Our colleagues at the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptia are definitly very active regarding open data. They have published a lot of interesting ressources :
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...
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...
It might be important to be able to compare signs from a JSesh version to another. Starting with JSesh 7.5.5, I have decided to publish a pdf document to that purpose. The document can be found on Zenodo at 
It's a plain list, without any comment ; the sole purpose is to display the way a certain...
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.