[Egyptian] Testing hieroglyphic web fonts on your web browser

[r12a]

On 26/09/2016 13:21, Bob Richmond wrote:
> So I've created a Browser Test Page for Hieroglyphic in Unicode
> development <http://www.egpz.com/Page/UnicodeDevTest>to make it simple
> to check if your web browser works. Billions of devices are fine but I’d
> like to know of any problems members of the group may have using web
> fonts so I’d appreciate if people could give it a try.

>
> More about web fonts on my blog post Unicode Hieroglyphs in web
> browsers: Web Fonts
> <http://hieroglyphseverywhere.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/unicode-hieroglyphs-in-web-browsers-web.html>.

hello Bob,

i'm not clear about what the page is meant to be testing.

is the page intended to check whether a user can see hieroglyphs using 
the web font, or that they can see them arranged in quadrats, or both?

i see all the characters, but i can't tell whether that's because i have 
a couple of hieroglyphic fonts already on my system, or whether the 
webfont is providing the glyphs (except for the glyph with a green 
background).  (I also looked at the source briefly, but couldn't see any 
@font-face rule, and the descriptions of the page in your blog and 
emails don't mention what web font is being used. I'd like to know what 
font was used.)

i also see the characters arranged in quadrats, but i don't know whether 
what i'm seeing is fully correct. If the quadrat behaviour is something 
your page is testing, i suggest that you include images of the expected 
outcome, so that people can compare their results with the expectations.

it's also not clear in the descriptions whether the quadrat behaviour is 
produced by the web font or scripting.  I suspect it's the latter. It 
would be good to make that clear.

finally, it may also be useful for the reader to indicate that you are 
using the U+F510F [Supplementary Private Use Area-A] code point to 
represent glyph with the green background, rather than simply an 
alternate font glyph for U+13139 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH F051.

hope that helps,
ri