Early Phoenician

Hi there. For a project I need the Early Phoenician alphabet, which I have been using on my PC. But it is not possible for Mac OS X. I need to resolve this or it is back to WIndows. So does anyone know?

Posted on Jul 22, 2019 2:17 PM

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Posted on Jul 22, 2019 2:27 PM

Phoenician font (TrueType)

  • eshmoon.ttf (Mac & Windows) -- my own creation (old runs left to right) -- © Salim Khalaf
  • MPH 2B Damase.ttf (Mac & Windows) -- official standard font (runs right to left)
  • To install these fonts on your Mac double click the file and in Windows, copy and paste it into your C:\Windows\Fonts directory. Once installed, you need to switch language from English to Phoenician, as you would for Russian, Chinese or non-Latin scripts.


To view the main page of this site transliterated in Phoenician script, click the the thumbnail imageabove.

Lebanese language font (TrueType)

(also, MS Office® (Word®) Lebanese language custom spell-checker)

Ugaritic Canaanite/ Phoenician font (TrueType)

https://phoenicia.org/alphabet.html#fonts

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Jul 22, 2019 2:27 PM in response to Drdalet

Phoenician font (TrueType)

  • eshmoon.ttf (Mac & Windows) -- my own creation (old runs left to right) -- © Salim Khalaf
  • MPH 2B Damase.ttf (Mac & Windows) -- official standard font (runs right to left)
  • To install these fonts on your Mac double click the file and in Windows, copy and paste it into your C:\Windows\Fonts directory. Once installed, you need to switch language from English to Phoenician, as you would for Russian, Chinese or non-Latin scripts.


To view the main page of this site transliterated in Phoenician script, click the the thumbnail imageabove.

Lebanese language font (TrueType)

(also, MS Office® (Word®) Lebanese language custom spell-checker)

Ugaritic Canaanite/ Phoenician font (TrueType)

https://phoenicia.org/alphabet.html#fonts

Jul 23, 2019 6:02 AM in response to Drdalet

Okay; try this Phoenician input method...


Or... macOS uses various keyboards for switching languages. By selecting the Unicode hex keyboard (System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Source > Unicode hex), you can enter the Unicode value for the character using the keyboard akin to what Windows can do with the Alt key, or using the character viewer.


You can make your own key layout using Ukelele, if you can’t find a better approach.


Or your own input method, which is what Ukelele can help with.


One of the frequent posters around here Tom Gewecke has/had a Phoenician input method available, but the dropbox links to that are dead.

Jul 23, 2019 2:35 AM in response to MrHoffman

I've got the font and installed it. But I can't get the characters. What I had to do is go to Windows, make a text with the fonts. Move it to Mac and copied paste from the document into Keynote, for which I need the Phoenician script. This worked, but why can't I just get the characters on Mac. The keyboard doesn't help, so where are the characters I need and how do I get them into documents. I read somewhere that the problem is UTF-8 and I have to insert a line which will correct that. But I am not a programmer, so how does this work?

Jul 23, 2019 1:57 PM in response to BDAqua

Yes, it works fine now. The point was that I installed a font, opened keynote, opened a text-box en in the program itself I looked for Early Phoenician, but it wasn't in the list. I didn't know about CMD+T, so I used my WIndows-PC to put the alphabet letters in a document, which I imported in Keynote. It worked fine. But I still couldn't see the font in the font-list within the program. Strangely enough, after I used CMD+T it worked - and to my surprise I can now also use it from the font list in Keynote, without CMD+T. So, I am not sure how that happened, but it works and that is all that matters. As you can see, I see both fonts, yours and the one I previously installed.

So, thanks for all your help.




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