"Making Maya Hieroglyphs Accessible Online via Script Encoding Initiative Project" (poster) (Web Resource)
Title: "Making Maya Hieroglyphs Accessible Online via Script Encoding Initiative Project" (poster)
Author: Deborah W. Anderson
Abstract: Typing, searching, and archiving text can be a challenge for those working with historic materials in Latin American Studies - both for text in the Latin (Roman) script as well as text in other scripts, such as Maya hieroglyphs. One problem is that text may appear one way on a computer, but when sent to another device the characters can appear as a question mark, nonsense characters, or as boxes. SEI works with users to help get scripts and characters into Unicode, shepherding proposals through the multi-year approval process. Another goal of the project is to ensure proposals have been reviewed by experts. To date, SEI has assisted in getting over 70 scripts (or blocks of characters) into Unicode, including Egyptian hieroglyphs (Gardiner set), Anatolian hieroglyphs, and Linear A and B.
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://app.gather.town/app/SxCqb3WBBUhsXvMa/classicmayatexts
Primary URL Description: Gather app with poster from Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies meeting, March 18, 2021
Secondary URL: https://ncodex.org/publications.php
Secondary URL Description: Publications on NcodeX site

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