Can computers decode egyptian symbols?
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Yes if you got the right software to do it.
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Most definately not.  Here's why.  First of all, when you go to the bookstore and bye a book named 'the Bible', you're buying a translation of an anient text. By its very nature, a translation is not the original, thus any anient codes woud be lost by the simple fact that it is translated.  Next, the Bible is very old, and was written before the age of computers, so when you needed a new Bible, it had to be written by hand.  Mistakes were no doubt made, along with mistranslations.  Again, more of any ancient code would be lost.  Finally, there are today several flavors of the Bible floating around.  Do a Yahoo! Search for, say John 3:16 and you'll find at least 4 'versions' .  Essentially the same text and meaning, but one might have a comma, or the other may use an archaic form of spelling as opposed to modern.  Thus, any code that depends on character placement would be lost the instant you insert an extraneous coma or a different spelling.  Last, the reason many of these 'codes' appear to be true, is because people are very open to interpretation.  Further, the codes themselves have been found mostly by using powerful computers with complex  search algorithms.  Given a sufficiently manipulative search pattern, even a desktop computer can cull words and phrases out of a book that are in 'a code'.  Case in point, my friends and I wrote a program in ADA (a computer language) that could find 'codes' in random texts.  We even manipulated my college report card to reveal 'you will fail', which was 'hidden'.  Of course we had to run the report card through a dozen algoritms, but as soon as we 'found' one that worked we called it a 'code'.
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The history of the alphabet starts in ancient Egypt. By 2700 BCE the Egyptians had developed a set of some 22 hieroglyphs to represent the individual consonants of their language, plus a 23rd that seems to have represented word-initial or word-final vowels. These glyphs were used as pronunciation guides for logograms, to write grammatical inflections, and, later, to transcribe loan words and foreign names.\n\nHowever, although alphabetic in nature, the original Egyptian system was not used for purely alphabetic writing. The first purely alphabetic script is thought to have been developed in central Egypt around 2000 BCE for or by Semitic workers.\n\nOver the next five centuries this Semitic alphabet spread north. All subsequent alphabets around the world have either descended from it, or been inspired by one of its descendants, with the possible exception of the Meroitic alphabet, a 3rd century BCE Nubian adaptation of hieroglyphs.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_Ancient_Egyptian_Gods\n\nhttp://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Ancient+Egyptian+Gods&btnG=Search+Images\n\nThis one you might like better\nhttp://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/gods/explore/main.html
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there is no program to do it, and there's no easy way.\nmethod 1) ask a person who reads japanese\nmethod 2) figure out what characters are in the picture and use an online translator like world.altavista.com or other site
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A few minutes of research and a basic understanding of probability should convince you that "messages" of any kind can be found in any sufficiently long piece of text using any kind of systematic text sampling technique.\n   By any kind of message, I mean just that. For any given statement, a statement that exactly contradicts the first statement is likely to be found along, as always, with a mind-boggling mountain of pure, random gibberish.\n\nAlthough it's best to determine these things for oneself, if an appeal to authority is convincing then here is a link to Caltech's mathematics department where 55 mathematicians have signed a document called, "Mathematicians' Statement on the Bible Codes"
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Would it help to encode the characters before storing them, and decode the characters when reading them? That way you can easily mix character sets.\n\nRawlyn.
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try simple ocr. it's not the best one but the cheapest one for you to start.
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get a software called "Rosetta Stone". It's very good.
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http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/ascii/smileys.html\n\nmore than enough info
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There are several OCR (optical character recognition) packages available.  There are also many different handwriting recognition programs included with tablet and pocket PCs, but those usually require you to do the actual writing on the screen.  The OCR packages are more geared to converting scanned printed text (like a scanned typewritten letter).\n\nI think the following link might be close to what you are looking for:\nhttp://www.digimemo.com/
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Here is the Tetragrammaton of God's name:   יהוה \n\n\nIt is too much to copy and paste . . . so there is it clean and simple . . . If you want to read . . . read the sources.
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search for JPG to ASCII software.. you will find your solution
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try the egyptian yellow pages.
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Yahwe\nYehova\nclick here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetragrammaton
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It's a program that's pre-installed on Apple Macintoshes, and it recognizes the writing on a scanned image and converts it to text. For example, if you used a scanner and scanned a page from a book into your Macintosh, then Readiris would analyze the image it received and convert the writing from an image into text. From my experience, it's generally pretty accurate, but you should probably read through the  result to check for errors... and it's not very good at reading two-column stuff.
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I think it had to do with being the first document that was written in three specific languages (latin, greek, and heiroglyph) if I'm not mistaken... It was the first written document that allowed people to finally read and interpret Egyptian heiroglyphics when it had been a lost language for so long... \n\nnow do your own homework!!!  :)