[Egyptian] Towards a deterministic sort for Egyptian Unicode characters

[Nigel Strudwick]

Michael

I confess to not understanding what this is about. Surely one can 
sort the transliteration characters, but there is little point in 
sorting glyphs, as only a relatively small subset of them have 
phonetic values, and some have several? Aren't we getting beyond the 
basic encoding of hieroglyphs again?

Nigel

On 15 Aug 2007, at 21:47, Michael Everson wrote:

>Please see
>http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/egyptian-sorting-1.pdf
>and comment. Questions:
>
>1. Have errors been made?
>
>2. For signs which have more than one reading, have I chosen the correct one?
>
>3. Should characters which are proper ideograms be ordered according
>to their pronunciation?
>
>Please remember the discussion from last summer. The ordering here
>will be better than binary order, though it will not be as perfect as
>an Egyptologist would put into a dictionary.
>
>I look forward to hearing your responses.
>--
>Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
>
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