Ancient Egyptian Technology
Hieroglyphs, Hieratic, Transliteration
Unicode, EGPZ, XML

Egyptological Tools

Here is a list of software tools that support hieroglyphs with EGPZ 1.0 and Unicode. Please contact us with information about other software for Ancient Egyptian you would like to see added to this list.

EGPZ and Unicode software

InScribe 2008 Hieroglyphs

Software and Fonts. Hieroglyphic (TrueType) Fonts. Saqqara Technology. Released November 2007. Complete EGPZ 1.0 font implementation - 'InScribe 2008 Hieroglyphs'. Unicode 5.1 transliteration characters. Pack also includes an experimental font - 'InScribe PDAM5A Unicode' - matching the current draft of ISO/IEC 10646:2003 PDAM5 additions to ISO/Unicode character standards (details of this are subject to change prior to ratification hence experimental only). Currently available as part of InScribe 2008 Beta Program (see below).

InScribe 2008

Software and Fonts. Hieroglyphic Word Processor. Saqqara Technology. Windows XP and Vista. In development for 2008, with Beta Program available. InScribe 2008 is the successor to InScribe 2004 with Unicode and EGPZ features. Unicode 5.1 transliteration support. INSX and MdC data formats. See www.saqqara.org/products/InScribe2008.

InScribeX

Software and Fonts. Hieroglyphic Word Processor. Saqqara Technology. Windows XP and Vista, MacOS X, Linux. In development for release in 2008. InScribeX is based on InScribe 2008 functionality suitable for cross platform deployment. See www.saqqara.org/products/InScribeX.

EGPZ on the web

Projet Rosette

Web site. Resources and tools for Ancient Egyptian and Hieroglyphs in English and French. Development ongoing. See www.projetrosette.info.

 

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