[Egyptian] Testing hieroglyphic web fonts on your web browser

[Bob Richmond]

Thanks Richard

@font-face is defined in site.css and the quadrats are implemented by GSUB rules in the font (which is just a temporary font like the I&E demo font I circulated in the summer - it will change when I’ve made the full-fat version in the not too distant).

Its testing whether the text displays as expected. No scripting, pure web font. A tester doesn’t need to know how for this purpose, only whether it works! I’ve update the page to show expected outcome.

The question of alternate glyphs or code points for various characters is an upcoming repertoire discussion. I hope to release Plane 15 guidance and fonts I’m using (based on Aegyptus) when time permits but higher priority is items of interest to UTC for their next meeting in a months time.

Bob

From: r12a<mailto:ishida at w3.org>
Sent: 27 September 2016 08:43
To: Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the UCS<mailto:egyptian at evertype.com>
Subject: Re: [Egyptian] Testing hieroglyphic web fonts on your web browser

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





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