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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Simon</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Indeed, TEI P5 does not appear to explicitly identify concepts such as variants or arrangement in tag structures and has no <gv></gv> or <ga></ga> tags. Some related functionality is achieved using <g></g> along with information in <char></char>
definitions in a <charDecl></charDecl> element and this gives a powerful and flexible way of encoding and documenting non-Unicode 10 characters in texts. Personally I find <charDecl> type data as very useful but for basic UMdC plain text and lightweight markup
purposes its overkill to require a definitions table whereas <gv> and <ga> are succinct and easy to understand.
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<p class="MsoNormal">By unencoded signs I meant those not (yet) in the Unicode standard.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As I suggested earlier you can use <g corresp="src:idIBUBjhtZ6Fghe4swalp908klPGB" ref="#H10"><b>?</b></g> in TEI for a hieroglyph without a variant in Unicode to latch on to - just use a question mark or another character/string if more
useful. Unlike <g corresp="src:idIBUBjhtZ6Fghe4swalp908klPGB" ref="#H10" /> this at least gives a visible indication theres content present. In my experience self-closing tags like <g/> are a bad idea for representation of text content.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bob</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:schweitzer@bbaw.de">Simon Schweitzer</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>02 August 2017 07:30<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:bobqq@live.co.uk">Bob Richmond</a>; <a href="mailto:egyptian@evertype.com">
Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the UCS</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Egyptian] UMdC - representation of hieroglyphs not available in Unicode</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Dear Bob,<br>
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I cannot find the <ga> and the <gv> element in the TEI P5 guidelines. <br>
Did I miss something?<br>
<br>
> Has anyone any opinions on use of tags for unencoded signs?<br>
> <br>
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"unencoded signs": Are these "unencoded signs" signs we cannot identify? <br>
Or are these "unencoded signs" signs with no representaion in Unicode? <br>
If so, we could differentiate two cases in the TLA material for a TEI <br>
output:<br>
1) hieroglyphs in Unicode<br>
<g corresp="src:idIBUBdwG9XU3NGkkQi0UjnryUQg0" ref="#G1"></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic",sans-serif">𓄿</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"></g><br>
2) hieroglyphs not in Unicode<br>
<g corresp="src:idIBUBjhtZ6Fghe4swalp908klPGB" ref="#H10" /><br>
If there ist no represantation in Unicode, we cannot transform in the <br>
mentioned way. So we would retain the element in the original form.<br>
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All the best,<br>
<br>
Simon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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