Bob Richmond discussed...
> Recap. Michaels 'n1944' proposal for Egyptian Hieroglyphs in Unicode
> (1999)
Just FYI, the control codes were a rather controversial feature of that
proposal. It would also be worth surveying (again) the use of controls in
existing Egyptian implementations.
> I understand the UTC position was in favour of coding a basic
> (partial-Gardiner) character set but deferring the larger corpus
> and control elements. This would have been useful and fine to
> build on incrementally but IMO 5 years on, it is not only
> possible but highly desirable to go further than this.
UTC at last check was still in favor of encoding the Gardiner set, minus
control codes, just as soon as someone is able to come up with a revised
proposal for the 700+ characters. Funding and time are the current
inhibitors to work on the proposal, as I understand it. And I'm afraid at
this point, Egyptian is nowhere near being encoded.
Rick
