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- Title
Unicode Text Editor for Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs Writing System.
- Authors
AL-Nasrawi, Dhamyaa A.; Hashem, Hashem A.; Odhaib, Mohammed A.
- Abstract
A writing system as a set of visible used to represent units of language in a systematic way. Egyptian hieroglyphs were a formal writing system used by the ancient Egyptians that combined logographic and alphabetic elements. In serious music textbook editor programs there is a trouble in writing documents which include Egyptian hieroglyph symbols which take more than two bytes, because there is no way to embed these symbolization in a particular document. In this paper, a special text editor designed for ancient Egyptian hieroglyph writing system which power comprehension the Egyptian hieroglyph symbols using Unicode standard, and the basic operations of a classical text editor such as operations of file manipulation (load and save), select font size, type, and color, the operations of copy, paste, cut, select all, etc. as well as print the final document. Besides this, hieroglyphic numbers were represented in this editor. More facilities, flexibility, simplicity and benefits can be gotten using these editors especially for historic research worker which they interested authors in the ancient civilization. This editor designed in Visual Basic.Net.
- Subjects
UNICODE (Computer character set); TEXT editors (Computer programs); HIEROGLYPHICS; PROGRAMMING languages; COMPUTER research
- Publication
Egyptian Computer Science Journal, 2014, Vol 38, Issue 2, p48
- ISSN
1110-2586
- Publication type
Article