Re: Egyptian Demotic

[Frédéric Grosshans]

Le 22/01/2014 09:38, Stephan Stiller a écrit : Hi all, Is Egyptian Demotic on somebody's roadmap for Unicode? Apparently not : The script encoding initiative list it with no proposal and no contact here http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei/alpha-script-list.html The only references to demotic I found in the proposals where about meroitic cursive, coptic letters of demotic origin and characters for translitteration into latin It is not on the SMP roadmap http://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/smp/ A similar question was asked on this list in 2006 and Serge Rosmorduc explained why such an encoding would be tricky http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2006-m05/0158.html . In a few words the problem would be : Difficulty to establish the glyph/character/ligature separation Small community of users (100 or 200 demoticists) I would add that, according to my understanding, the encoding of hieroglyphs is far from achieved and is probably a higher priority for egyptologists.     Fred

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