Topic on Extension talk:WikiHiero

Are there any plans to render hieroglyph images as SVG? The generated bitmaps are very low-res and look pixelated.

There are no plans. The current set is from 2004 and made by S. Rosmorduc, G. Watson, J. Hirst who licensed it as GFDL. If someone has a newer set of SVGs that is properly licensed, they can probably be replaced quite easily.

There is a set from JSesh which has a GPL compatible license, maybe this could be used?

I created https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214232

Thanks!

So, can we update it to SVG?

Doesn't seem like it. There are no good vectored versions of the original hieroglyphs and the available font designs out there don't really seem to map well to the hieroglyph definitions we have currently, so it's a huge effort to deploy that without breaking lots of content.

Whats wrong with Noto Sans? https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans+Egyptian+Hieroglyphs

"don't really seem to map well to the hieroglyph definitions we have currently, so it's a huge effort to deploy that without breaking lots of content."

Was it even tested? How can it break anything? It is just replacing .png image with .svg image with same size. If that breaks anything then better .png can be used. I compared current WikiHiero with Noto Sans font here:https://i.imgur.com/dVW83Sb.png - looks fine to me.

someone tried to map unicode to our glyphs here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Vorziblix/Mismatches_between_WikiHiero,_Hieroglyphica,_and_Unicode

SVG support would be the best solution in my opinion, but at least replacing these old rough images by clean .png, for example by rasterising a free font like Noto Sans, would be clear progress. Where are the current images stored?