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

[Frédéric Grosshans]

Le 01/06/2017 à 16:14, Marwan Kilani a écrit :
> I'm quite sure that the IPA glottal stop character does derive from 
> the Greek spiritus lenis, and the fact that it does not look the same 
> is merely an historical typographic distinction, and the fact that 
> Egyptological glottal stop often looks more like the greek spiritus 
> lenis, rather than the IPA glottal stop character is probably merely 
> due to the fact that Egyptology as a field was excluded (or did not 
> pay too attention) to the typographical developments taking place in 
> linguistics and standard phonetic transcriptions, rather than being 
> due to an explicit desire of Egyptologist of keeping their "glottal 
> stop" graphically closer to the Greek spiritus lenis, rather than to 
> the IPA glottal stop.
>
If you consider such “historical typographical distinction[s]” 
irrelevant, you can use the existing U+0357 ○͗ COMBINING RIGHT HALF RING 
ABOVE (solution  A2 in proposal n3487) or ˀ U+02C0 MODIFIER LETTER 
GLOTTAL STOP and this whole discussion is irrelevant.