[Egyptian] Egyptian picker now supports Unicode 12 formatting characters

[Marwan Kilani]

Nice!

A far as I know, there is no font available that supports the formatting
behavior, also because every single group would need to be encoded
singularly, as a ligature combining hieroglyphs + control characters. This,
besides being a huge job, lead to a problem that, again as far as I know,
does not seem to have any easy solution for now: many common text editors
(certainly word on mac os x) cannot compose ligatures formed by more than 4
elements. Which means that they cannot process any group formed by more
than 2 hieroglyphs + 2 control characters, or 3 hieros and 1 control
characters...

best

Marwan

On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 2:02 PM r12a <ishida at w3.org> wrote:

> I don't know whether anyone uses it, but the picker at
> https://r12a.github.io/pickers/egyptian/
> has been updated to allow insertion of the new Unicode12 formatting codes.
>
> I haven't announced it widely yet for 2 reasons:
>
> [1] I have begun to upgrade the MDC<>Unicode<>MDC converters, but i need
> to do a little more work there.
>
> [2] I don't have a font that supports the formatting behaviour.
>
> Does anyone know of a font which i can recommend for download, or better
> still, include as a webfont?
>
> ri
>
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