Re: Egyptological Transliteration Characters

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Oct 19 2004 - 14:50:41 CST

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    At 09:15 -0400 2004-10-19, Dean Snyder wrote:

    >* Yod
    >The proposed characters are already covered by:
    >1EC8 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH HOOK ABOVE
    >1EC9 LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH HOOK ABOVE

    No, those are for Vietnamese.

    >* 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

    I don't believe this is correct. A wide range of practices needs to
    be looked into here. I have a hunch as to the answer, and it will
    surprise some. I am still collating, however, in what spare time I
    have.

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


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