[Egyptian] Request for review: RTL rendering of Egyptian in HTML

r12a ishida at w3.org
Fri Mar 22 13:15:55 GMT 2019


hi Serge,

Many thanks!  I substituted the correct character.
http://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/questions/qa-ltr-scripts-in-rtl.en


The mixture with other RTL writing systems should be fine, since bdo 
isolates the text directionally.  Afaik, the other use case should be ok 
too.

ri


On 22/03/2019 12:45, Serge Rosmorduc wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The glyphs should be
> 
> 
>>
>> 𓅓 U+13153 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH G017
>> 𓂞 U+1309E EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH D037 <<< NOT the same sign
>> 𓎡 U+133A1 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH V031
>> 𓏏 U+133CF EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH X001
>> 𓏦 U+133E6 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH Z002A
>> 𓀭 U+1302D EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH A040
>>
> 
> 
> regarding RTL hieroglyphs, the use cases in publications would be :
> 
> a) mixed with RTL characters in RTL modern writing systems (Arabic, Hebrew)
> b) in diplomatic edition. In this case, the text is likely to be rather long, and might be mixed with
>      modern script (line/position indications, short latin text indicating lacuna size,
>      ecdotic information…)
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Serge Rosmorduc
> 
> 
> 
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