[Egyptian] Unicode 5.1, Egyptian Transliteration, and Fonts

[Michael Everson]

At 09:17 +0100 2007-12-01, Serge Rosmorduc wrote:

>It seems that many in many current fonts, U+0486 has a very different
>shape than U+0313.

Actually there was a glyph corrigendum on that. See 
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf for the recommended shape 
in Cyrillic.

>Hence, I'd think I'd rather choose your 4th solution, having a 
>specific diacritic

1. That would have to get approval from the UTC, which will probably 
dislike "clone" characters being added

2. That would take two years before the character was implemented. 
U+0486 is there now.

>(well, my favourite solution, considering the many problems current software
>has concerning compound signs, would be to have a LATIN LETTER
>EGYPTOLOGICAL YOD, but it seeems unlikely).

Egyptological fonts have to have special characters anyway. And we'd 
have to add A and U with the same mark for Ugaritic, and who knows 
how productive it is.
-- 
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com