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

[Bob Richmond]

Thanks Simon. So far so good.

I mentioned geometrical arrangements and what I’ve been using here is a distinct tag <ga>, for instance

<ga c=”D59”>𓂝𓃀</ga>                   represents Hieroglyphica D59 (actually exists in Unicode as D059 𓃁 so not needed)
<ga c=”O70”>𓉐𓊤</ga>                     represents Hieroglyphica O70

This also seems compatible with your <g/> (and TEI?) element? if revised to <g>...</g>.

Clearly my use of distinct tags for variants and geometrical arrangements could be folded into a single tag <g>...</g> if attributes are used to distinguish semantics – I chose distinct tags for readability and clarity of meaning. Perhaps I should use <gv> for glyph variant?

Has anyone any opinions on use of tags for unencoded signs?

Bob
https://hieroglyphseverywhere.blogspot.co.uk/


From: Simon Schweitzer<mailto:schweitzer at bbaw.de>
Sent: 27 July 2017 12:51
To: Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the UCS<mailto:egyptian at evertype.com>; Bob Richmond<mailto:bobqq at live.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Egyptian] UMdC - representation of hieroglyphs not available in Unicode

Dear Bob,

Am 27.07.2017 um 12:31 schrieb 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.
>

A nice approach! Thanks!

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

As Daniel, we use the <g> element, e.g. <g
corresp="src:idIBUBdwG9XU3NGkkQi0UjnryUQg0" ref="#G1" />. We can
transform our <g> element -> <g
corresp="src:idIBUBdwG9XU3NGkkQi0UjnryUQg0" ref="#G1">𓄿</g>

All the best,

Simon

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