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Posted: 20-Jul-2016, 11:24
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Posted: 20-Jul-2016, 11:24
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Is it possible to add Paleo-Hebrew as a special keyboard? This would be really helpful as many of the coins in the Judea catalogue have Paleo-Hebrew script on them and it would really help to be able to use the lettering.
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Posted: 24-Jul-2016, 10:27
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Posted: 24-Jul-2016, 10:27
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Anyone?
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Jarcek
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Posted: 24-Jul-2016, 11:24
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Posted: 24-Jul-2016, 11:24
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Once I will talk with Xavier (it should be next week) I can raise the issue.
We (I and Chomp-master) can now solve currencies and country issues, add new catalogue and image sources, name referees and renounce their rights and add engravers biographies.
Alphabets and calendars we are not authorized to change.
Jarek
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Australian Coin Info
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Posted: 24-Jul-2016, 12:30
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Posted: 24-Jul-2016, 12:30
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Thanks Jarek. Please let me know what Xavier says.
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Jarcek
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Posted: 24-Jul-2016, 12:33
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Posted: 24-Jul-2016, 12:33
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I would say it is more matter of time, rather than yes/no question. Of course only if it is technically possible.
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Andy289
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Posted: 24-Jul-2016, 14:41
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Posted: 24-Jul-2016, 14:41
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I would suggest a development în the page where we add new coins to be able to upload custom font files that could be used for lettering. This results in no more such request for different alphabets. Fast and easy.
Xavier
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Posted: 30-Jul-2016, 18:03
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Posted: 30-Jul-2016, 18:03
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Hello,
I have just added the Phoenician alphabet to the special keyboard. Unicode has only a single representation for both Phoenician and Paleo-Hebrew alphabet.
Fonts is still another thing. Today Numista mostly relies on the visitors' system fonts to show characters in the various alphabet.
Andy289
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Posted: 1-Aug-2016, 17:28
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Posted: 1-Aug-2016, 17:28
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Quote: "Xavier"
I have just added the Phoenician alphabet to the special keyboard. Unicode has only a single representation for both Phoenician and Paleo-Hebrew alphabet.
Bad enough since Unicode is bad ass and love to mix things. If you look at the coins of Judea you'll notice that Unicode is useless and cannot be used to write accurate the legend of the coins. There are some good fonts that might be used for Paleo-Hebrew writing.
androl
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Posted: 23-Aug-2016, 22:18
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Posted: 23-Aug-2016, 22:18
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Quote: "Xavier"Hello,
I have just added the Phoenician alphabet to the special keyboard.
Has anyone been able to use this since? Or even tried?
Because it's impossible to use these characters on Numista, the catalog or the forum, which I just found out earlier today regarding Cypriot syllabary (these two Unicode blocks share the fact of having too high Unicode codepoints).
Technical details: MySQL databases don't support 4-byte UTF-8 characters!
Posting such a character here in the forum results in everything following the character (example:
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Posted: 24-Aug-2016, 06:38
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Quote: "androl"=1emHas anyone been able to use this since? Or even tried?=1em
Because it's impossible to use these characters on Numista, the catalog or the forum, which I just found out earlier today regarding Cypriot syllabary (these two Unicode blocks share the fact of having too high Unicode codepoints).
Technical details: MySQL databases don't support 4-byte UTF-8 characters!
Posting such a character here in the forum results in everything following the character (example:
I gave it a try but it did not work for me. I have been meaning to bring this up but I haven't been able to till now.
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