Em Hotep/Nofri
Nicole,
You’re
quite correct in that the current fonts are not mapped to Unicode Standards.
I honestly
do not know whether there are any plans to change the mapping.
The way it’s
set up now with the current mapping it makes typing Coptic very fast and also
allows for those who do not, for whatever reason, have access to the fonts to
be able to read the Coptic that’s typed.
Unfortunately,
as you may have noticed, there does not appear to be a standardized way of “Romanizing”
or transliterating Coptic – most people simply use the current keyboard
mappings so, for example, “thank you” would simply be ]sep`mot
rather than tishepehmot (though depending on the writer, you do find both
used). The standard Romanization of Coptic is a whole other issue.
Perhaps if
anyone out there knows different, they’ll respond, but to bottom line it;
the current system works quite well for those who wish to type Coptic on their
PC – I suspect most people may feel there’s no need to change it
(if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it).
Just my two
cents worth,
Mike S
From:
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005
7:44 AM
To:
Subject: [RemEnKimi] Coptic Fonts
and Unicode
Hi, this is my first post to the list. I am an Egyptologist and have
started a Web site that will offer online courses
in Egyptology
(http://www.glyphdoctors.com),
beginning with hieroglyphs. Therefore,
the encoding of Egyptian scripts is important to
me and in researching
issues related to this I came across your fonts
and this group.
I have downloaded your Coptic fonts and installed
them on my computer.
However, I notice that in one very important respect,
they are not
"standard" at all anymore in that the
characters are not mapped to the
proper Coptic unicode characters, that are now
fully standard in
Unicode since May of this year
(http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-4.1/U41-2C80.pdf)
but to
the English alphabetic characters. In searching
past messages in this
group, I have not found any mention of unicode
since 2 years or so and
so I am wondering whether there were any plans to
update the fonts to
reflect this new standard. I see no reason to
throw out the standard
keyboard arrangement you devised for Coptic for
entering the
characters, but two critical things seem to me to
need to be done:
1-The fonts themselves need to be updated so that
if you type aleph
for example, you are not simply typing a
"a" that looks like an aleph
but rather the unicode character for aleph U+2C80.
2-The keyboard layout needs to be mapped to the
unicode characters, so
that when you type a, it outputs U+2C80, not a.
Are there any plans to do such a thing with the
fonts?
Nicole Hansen
Ph.D. candidate, Egyptology,
Study Egyptology Online at http://www.glyphdoctors.com
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