Here I present: “Note on Maya Hieroglyphs and Digital Unicode Text“.
INTRODUCTION.
Maya hieroglyphs are not encoded in Unicode and cannot be typed or displayed as standard text in the way Chinese characters and Mesopotamian cuneiform (or any other writing system including Braille’). The Maya writing system is logo-syllabic and non-linear, with glyphs arranged into square blocks rather than written in a single line.
For this reason, the Maya glyph shown here are displayed as vector graphic (SVG files) rather than text. The glyph images are based on scholarly drawing and digital reconstructions made available through Wikimedia Commons, and are used here as visual representations of the original inscriptions.
Each glyph should be understood as an epigraphic image, not as a font character. Copy-and-paste text functionality does not apply.
