From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 19 2004 - 07:15:37 CST
saqqara wrote at 1:42 AM on Tuesday, October 19, 2004:
>Michaels proposal for three egyptological transliteration characters
>(with upper and low case versions, 6 characters in all)has been around
>for some years. See http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2241.pdf.
>
>There was a short discussion on the topic on this list over a year ago.
>
>I have no doubt as that this is useful to the user community and now
>there is better Unicode support creeping out in applications, seems to me
>the time is ripe for this to be put to UTC for a decision on inclusion.
>
>These characters have been in use for over a hundred years in published
>work on the subject and it would be good to be done with the font hacking
>approach.
>
>Any real problems from the generalists here? Thought I'd post here before
>canvassing same in the subject interest groups.
My take on Egyptian transliteration characters.
* Alef
Both small and capital forms should be encoded.
* Yod
The proposed characters are already covered by:
1EC8 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH HOOK ABOVE
1EC9 LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH HOOK ABOVE
* Ayin
Both Egyptian and Semitic transliterations commonly use the left single
quotation mark to transliterate ayin, with Egyptian sometimes exhibiting
a glyphic, i.e. font, variant. I submit that small transliteration ayin
is already covered by one of the following Unicode characters, requiring
us only to encode a corresponding capital form of the character:
2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
02BD MODIFIER LETTER REVERSED COMMA
02BF MODIFIER LETTER LEFT HALF RING
02C1 MODIFIER LETTER REVERSED GLOTTAL STOP
Respectfully,
Dean A. Snyder
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Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project
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