Re: Character codes for Egyptian transliteration

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Thu Aug 28 2003 - 19:55:17 EDT

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    At 09:33 -0700 2003-08-21, Peter Kirk wrote:
    >The hyperlink to
    >http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso10646/pdf/n2241-egypt.pdf is dead,

    Of course, I have not been involved with that organization since
    September 2001 -- more than twenty-three months now. I have continued
    Irish work on codes, character sets, and internationalization via
    Everson Typography and NSAI/ICTSCC/SC4.

    >but the same proposal, presumably, is now at
    >http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/n2241-egypt.pdf. Such
    >a proposal is the way to go.

    I thought so.

    >But I wonder if the "egyptologial ayin" proposed] there is really
    >different enough from U+02BD given that the sample glyphs are all
    >from italic fonts.

    I'll be answering this in another posting.

    -- 
    Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com
    


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