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<p class="MsoNormal">A tag system I’ve been using for some time to represent hieroglyphs not currently available in Unicode is illustrated in the following examples:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><v c=”B1A”><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Historic",sans-serif">𓁐</span></v> represents Hieroglyphica B1A as a variation of
<span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Historic",sans-serif">𓁐</span> (Unicode B001).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><v c=”H10”>?</v> represents Hieroglyphica H10 but no obvious variation in Unicode so far.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This scheme can be extended further to identify variations where identification of a sign is uncertain and so forth.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Not all entries in the Hieroglyphic Catalogue are necessarily best represented as these simple variations, for example geometrical arrangements of two or more hieroglyphs. I can come back to this.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What systems (if any) are others using, e.g. in the corpus projects TLA and Ramses?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">At the moment for UMdC all is open so suggestions of alternatives welcome. Alternatives need not necessarily involve tags. Once I have replies here this can be written up in more detail. I’ll take silence as approval!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bob</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">PS Daniel: Your TEI example uses notation like <g ref="#B1A" /> in this situation but this introduces the problem that there is no Unicode character for the item in the document – can TEI notation be changed to use something like the variation
approach?</p>
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