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There exist quite a few legacy fonts, from the time that 8-bit-style encod­ings was the norm. Nowdays, most (if not all) spoken and ancient scripts have been added to the Uni­code stand­ard.
There­fore, if you have a legacy font, you can con­vert to Uni­code using a guide by Wil­liam J Poser. The guide uses Linear B as an example.

The pro­gram men­tioned in the guide is pfaedit, which is now known as Font­Forge. Font­Forge is avail­able in your Ubuntu dis­tri­bu­tion; simply search using the pack­age manager.

Once you have a Uni­code font, the next step is to pre­pare an input method so that you can write in this script. But that’s another blog post.

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