On 22/09/18 15:13, Thomas Mader wrote:
Would you suggest to remove such writing systems out of Unicode?
What should a museum do which is in need of a software to somehow manage
Egyptian hieroglyphs?
If memory serves me right, hieroglyphs actually represent consonants
(vowels are implicit), and as such, are most definitely "characters".
The only language I can think of, off the top of my head, where words
have distinct signs is sign language. It is a good question whether
Unicode should include such a language (difficulty of representing
motion in a font aside).
Shachar