JSesh News
A very important announcement for those of you who would like to display or manipulate hieroglyphic texts on web sites.
The JSesh source now includes a Javascript (actually typescript) library which is a port of JSesh. It handles the full JSesh language, and can be easily (sort of) inserted in web sites.
JSesh 8.0.8 is out! You will find all necessary information on the release page.
Dear users,
I have been working on a new version of JSesh for some time now. Normally, you won't notice much change, but internally the code has been modified to ease future evolutions (things will be quite different if you use JSesh as a library, but I will write a separate document about it).
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A few years ago, in my local supermarket, I was amused to find a crate of oranges with familiar decoration... Oranges 🍊🍊🍊 from Egypt decorated with hieroglyphs made with JSesh :-)
For once, the text was taken from an actual source... not very related to fruits, I'm afraid, as...
JSesh 7.11 is out. Check the release page for details.
It contains mostly a few new signs, and above all new texts.
Pr. Joshua Aaron Roberson, from the University of Memphis, has kindly shared with the JSesh community a collection with some of the glyphs he has created mainly for his book A Lexicon of Ancient Egyptian Cryptography of the New Kingdom1, and also his work on the Book of the Earth.
The Cité internationale in Paris is a campus dedicated to housing students from all over the world. It's composed of residences for various countries or regions. Some of those are remarkable buildings.
The maison de l'Égypte was built by architect Waleed Arafa in 2023, and its facade is deco...
It seems that JSesh has the honour of seeing some of its signs used to adorn the facade of the Grand Egyptian Museum :-)
Look in particular at the lion protome F4
So, there is a brand new JSesh version... You would like to use it, but you are in the middle of the writting your PHD dissertation. What if this new version changes the shape of some signs? It will be weird, as part of your texts1 would use the old shape, the rest would use the new shape, and you...