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Cuneiform, and how to make the fonts "work"



I'm using Ubuntu 6.10,and I have  at least two fonts, Akkadian_1, and BATimesAkkad, for which there are very few instructions.

For the first ones, there is a small note:

Download the first set of fonts Akkadian-1.
This is a set of about 220 signs each accessible by the codes
between ALT + 0033-0255, excluding 0127 and 0160.
Unzip the file akka1.ttf and install as a new font.

However, how does one go about making this produce cuneiform signs?  There are no Readmes to go by.

I know that to type in Kazakh, for instance, I have to have my keyboard set for Kazakhstan.  There are no native keyboards for Akkadian . :-)

I can understand that this is not usually the sort of question you deal with, but I hope you can give me a bit of help.

Thanks,

JimW