Tuesday, August 8, 2017

MacOS: Reading and Writing Linear B Script

Linear B was used for writing the earliest forms of Greek used by the Mycenaean civilization.

For a Unicode Font, download Aegean from this page.

For a Unicode keyboard, go to this page.

Another input option is a character picker:

https://tomer.github.io/characterPicker/#?load=0x10080-linear_b_ideograms.json

https://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/fui.html8

For online resources for studying Linear B, see e-ni-jo-te.

(I recommend you not use the old non-Unicode Clark fonts which map Linear B to Latin, as everyone should be using Unicode for text exchange these days)