Re: Egyptian Transliteration Characters

[Peter_Constable]

>At 09:13 -0500 2001-09-26, David Starner wrote:
>
>>The problem is, I have a couple of German texts that I plan to
>>transcribe, where all I need is HYPHEN WITH DIARESIS.
>
>So, you type HYPHEN or EN DASH and then COMBINING DIAERESIS ABOVE.

It isn't obvious to me that this is the correct solution: first, one needs to decide whether 002d, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 or 2212 will be used, and then try to ensure that that is what is consistently used. More importantly, though, there is a question as to whether any of these has the appropriate character properties. For instance, I'm guessing that the line-breaking properties would be wrong for this usage.

It would be possible to add a new character DASH WITH DIAERESIS as long as it does not have any decomposition.



- Peter


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