[Egyptian] Unicode Technical Committee (UTC) documents about Egyptian Hieroglyphic (May 2017)

[Michael Everson]

Daniel,

The problem is that we are adding six letters. I i with diacritic for Egyptian, and A a U u with the same diacritic for Ugaritic. We can’t name those EGYPTOLOGICAL A and EGYPTOLOGICAL U. 

> On 31 May 2017, at 20:04, Daniel Werning <daniel.werning at topoi.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear Bob,
> (Dear Michel Suignard,)
> 
> Actually, I like the earlier proposal L2/17-076 for an "LATIN ... LETTER EGYPTOLOGICAL YOD" much more.
> 
> The new proposal L2/17-076R2 calls the "half circle" above the "i" a "... WITH SPIRITUS LENIS" and the shape of the half circle looks more like a "quotes" sign -- like there is a dot in the upper part (future encoders will certainly design it that way due to the name "... WITH SPIRITUS LENIS"). But this is not how it is supposed to look like. It is supposed to look like half an "EGYPTOLOGICAL ALIF". Compare
> http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~dwernin/temp/EgyptologicalYod.pdf (with scan from Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar, and others).
> 
> Therefore, I take issue with the new proposal as far as it aims at Egyptological encoding (*wrong shape, misleading name*).
> 
> Greetings,
> Daniel (Werning)