At 10:59 +0100 2003-08-21, Paul James Cowie wrote:
the sign used for aleph (looks like a 3, but isn't, obviously)
Not encoded yet.
What are you using for ayin? If you are using U+02BF, you might consider using U+02BE as an interim for aleph, and considering the glyph like a 3 as a typographic variant. U+02BE is commonly used for transliteration of Hebrew alef as well as the phoentically similar Arabic hamza. Or maybe you are using U+02BB or U+02BD (and yes, I know I am doing this in my Hebrew issues document, but only because the other glyphs were not in the font), not sure if you should be, in that case aleph would fit better with U+02BC though I guess you wouldn't want to change the glyph in your font as you don't want all your apostrophes looking like 3's.
But there is probably sufficient evidence on this one to justify adding a character to Unicode. I have seen this 3 used for similar sounds in other languages. And I (very far from an expert in Egyptian!) have evidence in "How to read Egyptian hieroglyphs" by Collier & Manley. This 3 seems to be the only transliteration character in the book which is not in Unicode.
While we are considering number-like transliteration symbols, something rather like a 9 is commonly used for transliteration of Arabic ain and similar sounds in other languages. So perhaps that could be included in the same proposal.
Or would U+021D or U+025C be suitable for your 3?
the sign used for yod (looks like a i with a right ring tick above it)
Encoding not determined yet.
This one looks rather like U+1EC9 though I am not sure if the hook above is quite the right shape for you. You might prefer a regular i followed by U+0357 COMBINING RIGHT HALF RING ABOVE. Or maybe U+0313 would be preferred, this is the Greek smooth breathing and looks like a comma.
the sign used interchangeably for q (looks like a k with a dot beneath it)
U+1E33
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