[Egyptian] UMdC - representation of hieroglyphs not available in Unicode

[Bob Richmond]

A tag system I’ve been using for some time to represent hieroglyphs not currently available in Unicode is illustrated in the following examples:

<v c=”B1A”>𓁐</v>           represents Hieroglyphica B1A as a variation of 𓁐 (Unicode B001).
<v c=”H10”>?</v>           represents Hieroglyphica H10 but no obvious variation in Unicode so far.

This scheme can be extended further to identify variations where identification of a sign is uncertain and so forth.

Not all entries in the Hieroglyphic Catalogue are necessarily best represented as these simple variations, for example geometrical arrangements of two or more hieroglyphs. I can come back to this.

What systems (if any) are others using, e.g. in the corpus projects TLA and Ramses?

At the moment for UMdC all is open so suggestions of alternatives welcome. Alternatives need not necessarily involve tags. Once I have replies here this can be written up in more detail. I’ll take silence as approval!

Thanks,
Bob

PS Daniel: Your TEI example uses notation like <g ref="#B1A" /> in this situation but this introduces the problem that there is no Unicode character for the item in the document – can TEI notation be changed to use something like the variation approach?





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