WHY , HOW TO READ COPTIC

1st
Coptic writing is the 4th writing system used for the same Egyptian Language
2nd
is It important ?
Yup ,because
a- it’s the Native Egyptian language
b- it helped Champollion and others to decipher the Other Egyptian writing systems like Hieroglyphic , Heiratic , And Demotic
c- there are many important materials written in it like
Coptic liturgies, Christian Theological materials ,Apocrypha bibles , Egyptian History in Ptolemaic , Roman , Byzantine, and Islamic eras , philosophical , Gnostic , Paterology , and arts
3rd
should I learn Coptic ?
well yes if you are
Egyptian , interested in Egyptology or Coptology , studying the history or Theology or both of the 1st churches
Or just feeling like to do so .
or just curious to see how the Coptic writing looks like .
4th
you are NOT even interested in Coptic
it’s OK . there is a lot of content in http://Egyptianfantasy.net
and in http://store.rgyptianfantasy.net/blog in English and arabic , only few is written in Coptic , I wish you like some of them .

let’s cut off the pla pla pla and start .

every modern Operating system :
MS Windows starting Windows 2000 ,Xp , 7 ,8 , 8.1 .10 and whatever will be
Linux in every distributions
BSD
UNIX
MacOS X
Android in every flavor (which is actually based on Linux )
IOS
support UTF-8 which includes the Coptic Language
so it’s easy to read just install a Coptic TTF ( True Type Font )
and here is some Coptic fonts

Coptic_fontsDownload

Just unzip
right click and chose install in , Windows , and Linux
If NOT
copy them into
c:\windows\fonts in Windows as administrator
/usr/share/fonts/TTF in Linux as root
in Mac use this app font book to install the fonts
in android install the fonts using this app font manager (require root )
IOS (I phone) I do NOT know because I don’t have one , but I think Google will help you better
you may just need to configure your browser to use a Coptic font ( in most cases you ‘ll NOT need to do anything )
in Opera >settings>Advanced>customize fonts >> standard font : chose a Coptic one I prefer Arialcoptic.ttf
in Firefox : edit >preferences > fonts and colors >advanced>proportional > and chose the font you like
in chrome : settings>customize fonts>standard font and chose what you like

Now you can read Coptic in your device

The next step is how to write Coptic in your device , more details for each OS
stay with me
Lawrence W William