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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3021255, member: 82322&quot;]Thank you for your hard work trying to get the inscription into Unicode.&nbsp; I have struggled with the same thing.&nbsp; It is unfortunate that CoinTalk rejects these characters.&nbsp; Can you post the HTML entities?</p><p><br /></p><p>I have several coins with difficult scripts that I have struggled to get into Unicode.&nbsp; I&#039;ll start with Kharosthi.&nbsp; The coins of Menander are very nice.&nbsp; Here are two.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]751372[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]751386[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The first one has a great portrait!&nbsp; I liked it so much that I uploaded it in 2004 to Wikipedia and made it the portrait of Menander on the page <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menander_I" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menander_I" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menander_I</a> .&nbsp; I hope that thousands of children doing reports on the Indo-Greek kings are using my coin for their illustration.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second coin is a bit soft on the obverse but very well struck and we should be able to read the Kharosthi.&nbsp; Coin catalogs usually just say &quot;Kharosthi inscription <i>Maharajasa tratarasa Menamdrasa.&nbsp; </i>Sometimes they translate it as “The Savior King Menander”</p><p><br /></p><p>Barclay Head figured out over 100 years ago how to print the inscriptions.&nbsp; He gave them as [ATTACH=full]751398[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]751397[/ATTACH]&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]751396[/ATTACH].&nbsp; You should be able to see that on the reverse of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I struggled with getting this into Unicode.&nbsp; The common numismatic transliteration didn&#039;t fit into Unicode.&nbsp; I also had Richard Plant&#039;s book on Asiatic coin inscriptions, which gives all of the letters, but some of the things Plant wants, like &quot;Long A augmentation&quot; and &quot;Compound akshara DR&quot; and don&#039;t map into the Unicode terms.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would love to paste the Unicode here so you can see it but CoinTalk doesn&#039;t take Unicode and not all browsers render it.&nbsp; On the Mac it looks sweet in Safari but I had to download a font to get it working in Chrome and the font I choose is pretty ugly.&nbsp; So I will show it as an image: [ATTACH=full]751399[/ATTACH].</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the HTML.&nbsp; I had to cheat and use a zero-width space to make the Ma-E look nice.</p><p><br /></p><p>&lt;!-- Mauharajasa --&gt;&amp;#x10A28;&amp;#x10A02;&amp;#x10A31;&amp;#x10A2A;&amp;#x10A17;&amp;#x10A2F;</p><p><br /></p><p>&lt;!-- ta-ta-ra-sa --&gt;&amp;#x10A1F;&amp;#x10A1F;&amp;#x10A2A;&amp;#x10A2F;</p><p><br /></p><p>&lt;!-- Ma-e-na-d-ra-sa; using a zero-width space to help position e --&gt;&amp;#x10A28;&amp;#x10A05;&lt;!-- replace this comment with zero width space &amp;#x200b;--&gt;&amp;#x10A23;&lt;!-- The next is just ra, I couldn&#039;t do the compound DR --&gt;&amp;#x10A2A;&amp;#x10A2F;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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