[Egyptian] comments

[Nigel Strudwick]

Can someone enlighten me as to a) what NL and NU are, and b) what is  
G1953? [No, I haven't read the proposal.]

Nigel


On 6 Apr 2007, at 14:56, Michael Everson wrote:

> At 11:59 +0100 2007-04-06, M.J. Nederhof wrote:
>
>> Back to the proposal, I am not yet convinced that NL and NU should be
>> placed between N and O. What did Gardiner do in his publications?
>
> They are listed in only one publication, G1953. In it the sections
> run Z, Aa, Ff, Nn. We have no Ff characters left because all have
> been identified as variants of other characters. I don't know that
> this is really indicative of anything as the Nn characters take a
> whole page and then some and had Gardiner inserted them between N and
> O it would have made G1953 a little less friendly.
>
> I don't think that the code tables would be improved by moving the
> NnL (> NL) and NnU (> NU) characters to the end after Aa, however.
> And to do so would be a rather burdensome exercise as the WG2 meeting
> begins in a fortnight.