Re: Unicode 5.1, Egyptian Transliteration, and Fonts

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Dec 05 2007 - 01:17:54 CST

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    At 00:23 +0000 2007-12-05, Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote:
    >On 2007.12.02, 10:14, Charles <charles@agenoria.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
    >
    >> Script/Language dependent behaviour of combining accents is already a
    >> feature of Unicode, so U+0313 should be able to function as both the
    >> Greek spiritus lenis and as a diacritic for composing the Egyptological
    >> Yod when used with Latin script.
    >
    >OK, but what's the expected behaviour of the Egyptological Yod when used
    >with *Greek* script? I mean there are surely Greek egyptologists, which,
    >I guess, use mostly the Greek script.

    The Egyptological Yod is a Latin letter i with a spiritus asper on it.

    If you are asking whether Greeks use Greek letters to transliterate
    Egyptian, all I can say is "not to my knowledge".

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


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