Paul James Cowie scripsit: > It would be great, though, to > have access to purpose-encoded characters for the conventional Egyptian > aleph (3) and yod (i with a half-ring) that don't rely on combinations > or workarounds.
I quite agree about the 3-like character (which for whatever reason is ayin in the Semitic world but alef in Egyptology). Lumping "combinations and workarounds" in a single bucket, however, is against the spirit of Unicode. It is the precomposed characters that are the workaround, viz. for the inability of legacy systems to handle combining characters, which are the true Unicode way. > So let's get that proposal for these two characters happening!! Exactly > how does one go about that? It already exists in preliminary form: http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2241.pdf > How long will it take for their acceptance > do you think? About two years. -- Not to perambulate John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> the corridors http://www.reutershealth.com during the hours of repose http://www.ccil.org/~cowan in the boots of ascension. --Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel
