Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Miscellaneous/Improve WikiHiero

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Improve WikiHiero

Problem: WikiHiero is an extension which handles the rendering of hieroglyphs. It could be improved in several ways, by order of priority:
1. Enable the use of WikiHiero inline (currently it displays as a block, triggering line breaks before and after the hieroglyphs).
2. Replace old rough PNG images by new neat images, either in PNG or (what would be better for future development) in SVG. The new images can consist in the glyphs of a free font (like Noto Sans).
3. Enable more formatting : especially "font-size".
4. Fix some mismatches between WikiHiero and Unicode/Manuel de Codage.
Proposed solution:
Who would benefit: Editors and readers of articles and books on Ancient Egypt.
More comments:
Phabricator tickets:
Proposer: ElioPrrl (talk) 10:10, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Voting

Support This is also used on Commons in the Wikidata infobox, and the display is awkward and difficult to refine, likely because it's a block rather than inline. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:23, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Kusurija (talk) 21:29, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lectrician1 (talk) 20:00, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support TheInternetGnome (talk) 07:56, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sannita - not just another it.wiki sysop 12:11, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thingofme (talk) 15:57, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Trey314159 (talk) 00:09, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Uanfala (talk) 00:06, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Darwin ^Ahoy! 01:08, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 05:52, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yzelf (talk) 21:08, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Pequod76^(talk) 23:29, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ayumu Ozaki (talk) 07:17, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Ciao • Bestoernesto • ✉ 17:37, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support This is just a neat suggestion; I had no idea WikiHiero existed! paul2520 (talk) 15:04, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 18:24, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 21:57, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Quiddity (talk) 08:09, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sunpriat (talk) 01:02, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]