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

[Bob Richmond]

Don't worry Nigel if you read the document I sent round yesterday you'll see
all is well in the real world. Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Egyptian [mailto:egyptian-bounces at evertype.com] On Behalf Of Nigel
Strudwick
Sent: 30 July 2016 14:52
To: Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the UCS <egyptian at evertype.com>
Subject: Re: [Egyptian] On "A system of control characters for Ancient
Egyptian hieroglyphic text" (2016-07-23)

I am sure I have misunderstood this, but as an Egyptologist I would prefer
something that preserves the order of the transliterated group Dd, so D
<something> d. Or else just leave us to do our best in Jsesh without
troubling Unicode (my preferred solution as you all know!) 

Nigel


On 30 Jul 2016, at 13:22, 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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