Monday 27 March 2017

Unicode Technical Committee (UTC) documents about Egyptian Hieroglyphic (March 2017)

Updated 2017-04-04.

My January post Unicode Technical Committee (UTC) documents on Egyptian Hieroglyphic 2016 summarised relevant submissions to the UTC Document register last year. Additions so far for 2017 are:

January to March 2017
  • L2/16-210r  A system of control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text (updated version); Mark-Jan Nederhof and others; 2017-01-21. Warning of possible confusion. Despite the L2/16-210r document code this January update is substantially changed from the L2/16-210 document and not a minor revision (the earlier document contains alternative ideas and additional material). The original L2/16-210 dated 2016-07-25 is still available as http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16210-egyptian-control.pdf ).
  • L2/17-073 New draft for the encoding of an extended Egyptian Hieroglyphs repertoire (Hieroglyphica based); Michel Suignard; 2017-03-19. An associated spreadsheet http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17073-n4788-hieroglyphs.xlsx is also available for download. A database snapshot is also available at http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17073-n4788-database-add.pdfThis draft contains substantial changes from its predecessor.
  • L2/17-076. Proposal for the encoding of an Egyptological YOD. Michel Suignard; 2017-03-24. A new attempt to sort out the remaining transliteration character.

If I've missed any other published documents relating to hieroglyphic in Unicode or any points came up at the UTC 150 meeting in January please let me know.



The next UTC meetings are in early May.

Bob Richmond


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