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

Stéphane polis s.polis at ulg.ac.be
Fri Mar 22 16:28:58 GMT 2019


Hi,

Note that the 𓂞 should be above, and not below the 𓎡.
All best,

Stéphane


> Le 22 mars 2019 à 13:15, r12a <ishida at w3.org> a écrit :
> 
> 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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