change footnote symbols to phaistos-hieroglf

Question

Can I change footnote symbols with some symbols from phaistos or hieroglf package?

I want to have only some of these symbols that I like,
The change has to be at the entire document (main text, minipage, tikz-boxes, tcolorbox...)

Thanks in advanced!

You might want to take a look at this answer https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/78227/184389 — KersouMan, Mar 28 '19 at 08:02
Thank's! It's almost done. I only have problems with phaistos symbols. There are not printed as symbols, but as "FF", "BB", "cc"... — Kώστας Κούδας, Mar 28 '19 at 08:17
@KersouMan , I find the solution for tcolorbox using this https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/376682/arabic-footnotes-in-tcolorbox — Kώστας Κούδας, Mar 28 '19 at 08:52

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 21 '19 at 11:10

Phaistos Disc symbols, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Linear B and so on, are now also available in unicode fonts, so a fontspec + xelatex/lualatex generic solution is possible, without need of phaistos or hieroglf packages. (Plus also, direct input with utf-8 encoding.)

Adapting the MWE by @Henrique at Changing footnote symbols

MWE

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Noto Serif}
\newfontface\fphaistos{Noto Sans Symbols}
\newfontface\flinearb{Noto Sans Linear B}
\newfontface\fegyhier{Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs}
\newcommand\myfna{{\fphaistos }}
\newcommand\myfnb{{\fphaistos }}
\newcommand\myfnc{{\fphaistos }}
\newcommand\myfnd{{\fphaistos }}
\newcommand\myfne{{\fphaistos }}
\newcommand\myfnf{{\fphaistos }}
\newcommand\myfng{{\flinearb }}
\newcommand\myfnh{{\fegyhier }}

\usepackage[symbol*]{footmisc}
\DefineFNsymbols{myfnsymbols}{% def. from footmisc.sty
  \myfna
  \myfnb
  \myfnc
  \myfnd
  \myfne
  \myfnf
  \myfng
  \myfnh
}%
\setfnsymbol{myfnsymbols}
\begin{document}
text\footnote{a} text\footnote{b} text\footnote{c}
text\footnote{d} text\footnote{e} text\footnote{f}
text\footnote{g} text\footnote{h}
\end{document}

There is now a potential for the footnote marks to carry semantic meaning: see, background history, current issues, developments, related matters, curiosa, and so on. Perhaps as hyperlinks to a wiki structure (in turn, that would make bot-crawling easier when building up a semantic web).

And, with a multiplicity of icons, there is also now even more incentive to use footnotes sparingly, in order not to overburden the reader's cognitive load with TLDR.

change footnote symbols to phaistos-hieroglf

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