Talk:Cuneiform (Unicode block)

Concordance
I am trying to do this concordance in order to be able to generate Unicode fonts from legacy fonts that are organized by Borger number. However, the concordance as derived from Anderson's sign list seems to be wrong (unless Borger has completely overthrown his scheme in the 2003 edition): B001=ASH is ok. B002 = HAL = ASH.ASH is ok. But B003 = HAL seems mistaken, since already B002 = HAL, and B003 = MUG. B005 = BA, not BAL. BAL is actually B009, and encoded at 12044, not 12045. For this reason, the concordance should be considered broken, and should probably be redone manually (or maybe updated once cuneiformsigns.org is updated?) dab (&#5839;) 12:28, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 * table now at list of cuneiform signs dab (&#5839;) 17:24, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

table completed, to be cleaned up
it may be that some "missing signs" may still be mapped to unmatched codepoints. Some unicode character names remain enigmatic. I have no idea what "121B6  CUNEIFORM SIGN KWU318" is supposed to be. Also, what are "12356  CUNEIFORM SIGN USHX", "12358   CUNEIFORM SIGN USHUMX", "12361   CUNEIFORM SIGN ZAMX"? dab (&#5839;) 16:30, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

uploaded Hittite font
(see external links)



Nidaba lead as it renders for me with the font installed dab (𒁳) 15:36, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

more font headaches
I noticed the cuneiform fonts on this table won't display in my firefox 3.0 browser, however when the table entry is changed from unicode|xxxxxx to cuneiform|xxxxxx it displays fine. I changed the entry for the first sign, if no one else has objections I suggest they all be changed.--Gurdjieff (talk) 15:09, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

I fixed the unicode problem and made the table sortable. I think this article can be merged with list of cuneiform signs now that signs can be ordered by multiple schemes in a single sortable table--Gurdjieff (talk) 03:44, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Visibility of forms
What has a user to do to see something else than a rectangle for each cuneiform in the long table? Sae1962 (talk) 08:17, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
 * A sure way is clicking the external link (in the top of the table) to the Unicode chart (pdf). Regarding installing fonts &tc I don't know enough. -DePiep (talk) 19:35, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Well I found the solution, it is the same Sign but a different culture, this above is a hittite cunei, and the other 𒑙 a neo-assyrian (assyrian-babylonian) one. -- Room 608 (talk) 12:39, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

BI 𒁉
My Cuneiform BI x12049 looks much simpler Two lines lying one above another with different triangles on both sides, like the left half of AB. BI seems compound here. More like x1202b 𒀫 .--Room 608 (talk) 22:35, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

Well I found the solution, it is the same Sign but a different culture, this above is a hittite cunei, and the other 𒑙 a neo-assyrian (assyrian-babylonian) one. -- Room 608 (talk) 12:39, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

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