RE: Egyptian Hieroglyph Man with a Laptop

2020-02-12 Thread Shawn Steele via Unicode
> From the point of view of Unicode, it is simpler: If the character is in use > or have had use, it should be included somehow. That bar, to me, seems too low. Many things are only used briefly or in a private context that doesn't really require encoding. The hieroglyphs discussion is

Re: Egyptian Hieroglyph Man with a Laptop

2020-02-12 Thread Hans Åberg via Unicode
> On 12 Feb 2020, at 23:30, Michel Suignard via Unicode > wrote: > > These abstract collections have started to appear in the first part of the > nineteen century (Champollion starting in 1822). Interestingly these > collections have started to be useful on their own even if in some case

RE: Egyptian Hieroglyph Man with a Laptop

2020-02-12 Thread Michel Suignard via Unicode
Interesting that a single character is creating so much feedback, but it is not the first time. It is true that the glyph in question was not in the base Hieroglyphica glyph set (that is why I referenced it as an 'extension'). Its presence though raises an interesting point concerning

Re: Egyptian Hieroglyph Man with a Laptop

2020-02-12 Thread Markus Scherer via Unicode
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 11:37 AM Marius Spix via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > In my opinion, this is an invalid character, which should not be > included in Unicode. > Please remember that feedback that you want the committee to look at needs to go through

Re: Egyptian Hieroglyph Man with a Laptop

2020-02-12 Thread Joe Becker via Unicode
I assume this glyph was created to honor Cleo Huggins, the designer of Sonata at Adobe, who decades ago created a similar hieroglyph of a *woman* in front of her computer. Joe

Re: Egyptian Hieroglyph Man with a Laptop

2020-02-12 Thread Frédéric Grosshans via Unicode
Le 12/02/2020 à 20:38, Marius Spix a écrit : That is a pretty interesting finding. This glyph was not part of http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18165-n4944-hieroglyphs.pdf It is, as *U+1355A EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH A-12-051 but has been first seen in

Re: Egyptian Hieroglyph Man with a Laptop

2020-02-12 Thread Marius Spix via Unicode
That is a pretty interesting finding. This glyph was not part of http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18165-n4944-hieroglyphs.pdf but has been first seen in http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19220-n5063-hieroglyphs.pdf The only "evidence" for this glyph I could find, is a stock photo, which is clearly

Egyptian Hieroglyph Man with a Laptop

2020-02-12 Thread Frédéric Grosshans via Unicode
Dear Unicode list members (CC Michel Suignard),   the Unicode proposal L2/20-068 , “Revised draft for the encoding of an extended Egyptian Hieroglyphs repertoire, Groups A to N” (

RE: Could U+E0001 LANGUAGE TAG become undeprecated please? There is a good reason why I ask

2020-02-12 Thread Sławomir Osipiuk via Unicode
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 11:28 AM wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode wrote: > > I am reminded of the teletext system (with brand names such as Ceefax and > Oracle) in the United KIngdom, which was a broadcasting technology introduced > in the 1970s and which became very much a part of

RE: Could U+E0001 LANGUAGE TAG become undeprecated please? There is a good reason why I ask

2020-02-12 Thread wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode
Hi At the time, I thought that my post yesterday concluded the thread. However, later something occurred to me as a result of something in the post by Sławomir Osipiuk. The gentleman wrote as follows: Sending multiples of the same message in different languages is really only applicable