Re: Digits in character names

From: John Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Fri Apr 07 2000 - 11:24:25 EDT


on 4/7/00 3:02 AM, Michael Everson at everson@egt.ie wrote:

> I (devoted member of WG2) defy WG2 to come up with better names for
> Egyptian than the catalogue names Egyptologists use. EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH
> A248A is far superior to EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH SKIRTED MAN HOLDING JACKAL
> ALOFT BY THE THROAT.
>

Gosh. I rather *like* EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH SKIRTED MAN HOLDING JACKAL ALOFT
BY THE THROAT. It gives such a vivid picture.

We really should have done that with Han. CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH BADGER
ALONG SIDE A FIELD UNDER GRASS. Works for me. :-)

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John H. Jenkins
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