This is a web-based tool for writing in hieroglyphs. It uses Manuel de codage coding.

An example of the output from this tool is on this page.

Your text

w-b:n ra m p*t:pt-! - +l The sun rises in the sky. +s-! -

After typing your encoded text into the box above, click the Submit button to have it rendered into a png format image file. The example here is "wbn ra m pt" or "The sun rises in the sky," and the output looks like this:

Acknowledgements:

This program would not be possible in this form without the work of many others including:

(for gd 1.8.3 and cgic 1.0.7) Tim Boutell.

(for Freetype 1.3.1) David Turner, Robert Wilhelm, Werner Lemberg, Antoine Leca, Mark Leisher, Pavel Kankovsky, Erwin Dieterich, Michal Necasek, Munagala V. S. Ramanath, CurveSoft, Inc., Dave Williss, Hidetoshi Yamano-uchi, Nelson H. F. Beebe, Kendall Benett, Junho Choi, Chin Soon Chong, Juliusz Chroboczek, Marc L. Cohen, Jack Davis, Akim Demaille, Duane Ellis, Matthew Feinberg, Anthony Furr, Dave Hoo, Thibault Jamme, Kevin Lewis, Jeff Long, Kazushi Marukawa, Jan Nijtmans, Eric Olson, Roland Paterson-Jones, Joerg Pommnitz, Ian Quigley, Helmut Steger, Scott Taggart.

(for zlib) Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.

(for libpng 1.0.2) Glenn Randers-Pehrson (after Andreas Dilger, Guy Eric, Schalnat, Group 42, Inc., and Frank J. T. Wojcik).

(for jpeg-6b) Tom Lane, Philip Gladstone, Luis Ortiz, Jim Boucher, Lee Crocker, Julian Minguillon, George Phillips, Davide Rossi, Ge' Weijers, and other members of the Independent JPEG Group.

Also, for the original "Manual de codage" encoding system, J. Buurman, N. Grimal, M. Hainsworth, D. van der Plas, and J. Halloff.

©2006 by Paul Sciortino
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