[Egyptian] On "A system of control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text" (2016-07-23)

[Marwan Kilani]

I agree with you michael. One of the two has to be conventionally chosen
(the most frequent one?), the other should not be allowed. This is a
problem that will emerge with a lot of groups, if we don't clarify first
what is common and what is rare, what is meaningful and what is just
(calli)grafic variants.

On Jul 30, 2016 2:22 PM, "Michael Everson" <everson at evertype.com> wrote:

> Palaeographic reproduction is out of scope for Unicode. The precision
> needed for that is already available in Illustrator and such. Unicode
> encoding permits searchable and interchangeable text. A certain
> normalization is expected, I think.
>
> I really think we should start out with a robust mechanism for
> representing text, whether paragraphs of Egyptian text on its own or inline
> citations within paragraphs in English, German, French, etc. Can we
> possibly focus on normalized Egyptian in LTR order?
>
> Earlier I said:
>
> The Cobra can be dealt with in one of two ways:
>
> Hand + bottom-left + Cobra
>
> or
>
> Cobra + vertical-stack + Hand
>
> The decision here is *conventional* and *arbitrary*. Either option will
> work. Both options should not be allowed. Egyptologists just decide whether
> to consider the cobra as a diagonal character like the Chick, or a
> horizontal character which just happens to have a tail. It doesn’t matter
> which, so long as ONE choice is made. That choice will be explained in the
> Unicode Technical Report which will eventually be one of the instruments
> which can provide font developers information on Egyptian.
>
> Comment please.
>
> Michael
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