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Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls

Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls is a Unicode block containing formatting characters that enable full formatting of quadrats for Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls
RangeU+13430..U+1345F
(48 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsEgyptian Hieroglyphs
Assigned38 code points
Unused10 reserved code points
Unicode version history
12.0 (2019)9 (+9)
15.0 (2022)38 (+29)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]
The block range was expanded from U+13430..1343F to U+13430..1345F with version 15.0.

The block size was expanded by 32 code points in Unicode version 15.0 (version 14: 1343F → version 15: 1345F), and 29 more characters were defined.

Block

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Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+1343x  𓐰   𓐱   𓐲   𓐳   𓐴   𓐵   𓐶   𓐷   𓐸   𓐹   𓐺   𓐻   𓐼   𓐽   𓐾   𓐿 
U+1344x  𓑀   FB   HB  𓑃 𓑄 𓑅 𓑆  𓑇   𓑈   𓑉   𓑊   𓑋   𓑌   𓑍   𓑎   𓑏 
U+1345x  𓑐   𓑑   𓑒   𓑓   𓑔   𓑕 
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

The Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls block has four variation sequences defined for standardized variants.[3]

Variation selector-1 (VS1) (U+FE00) can be used to expand "lost" sign shading to achieve 'continuous shading' for the following characters:[4][5]

  • U+13443 𓑃 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH LOST SIGN
  • U+13444 𓑄 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH HALF LOST SIGN
  • U+13445 𓑅 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH TALL LOST SIGN
  • U+13446 𓑆 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH WIDE LOST SIGN

History

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The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls block:

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
12.0 U+13430..13438 9 L2/99-008 N1944 Everson, Michael (1999-01-09), Encoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs in Plane 1 of the UCS
L2/00-010 N2103 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-01-05), "10.1", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark: 1999-09-13—16
L2/15-069 Richmond, Bob (2015-02-03), Egyptian Hieroglyphs in Unicode plain text, a note on a suggested approach
L2/15-149 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Pandey, Anshuman; Glass, Andrew (2015-05-03), "14. Egyptian", Recommendations to UTC #143 May 2015 on Script Proposals
L2/15-123 Richmond, Bob (2015-05-04), Proposal to encode three control characters for Egyptian Hieroglyphs
L2/16-037 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-01-22), "14. Egyptian Hieroglyphs", Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals
L2/16-018 Richmond, Bob; Glass, Andrew (2016-01-26), Proposal to encode three control characters for Egyptian Hieroglyphs
L2/16-004 Moore, Lisa (2016-02-01), "C.9.1", UTC #146 Minutes
L2/16-090 Nederhof, Mark-Jan; Rajan, Vinodh (2016-04-18), Comments on three control characters for Egyptian Hieroglyphs
L2/16-104 Richmond, Bob (2016-05-02), Observations: L2/16-090
L2/16-156 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-05-06), "4. Egyptian hieroglyphs", Recommendations to UTC #147 May 2016 on Script Proposals
L2/16-177 Nederhof, Mark-Jan; et al. (2016-06-30), A comprehensive system of control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text (preliminary version)
L2/16-199 Overington, William (2016-07-05), A suggestion ... for Ancient Egyptian
L2/16-212 Overington, William (2016-07-26), A comment about the encoding of control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text
L2/16-216 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa (2016-07-30), "3. Egyptian hieroglyphs", Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals
L2/16-214 Richmond, Bob (2016-08-01), An Extension to the three control characters for Egyptian Hieroglyphs and some additional remarks
L2/16-218 Anderson, Deborah (2016-08-01), Brief Report from Cambridge meeting of Egyptologists and Update
L2/16-227 Richmond, Bob (2016-08-04), The Universal Hieroglyphic Writing System: Consensus and possible compromise
L2/16-231 Rosmorduc, Serge; et al. (2016-08-04), Proposal for Ancient Egyptian encoding in Unicode
L2/16-232 Glass, Andrew (2016-08-05), Preliminary analysis of Egyptian Hieroglyph quadrat types
L2/16-233 Nederhof, Mark-Jan; et al. (2016-08-05), Addendum to: A system of control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text
L2/16-203 Moore, Lisa (2016-08-18), "B.1.3 and C.7", UTC #148 Minutes
N4873R (pdf, doc) "M65.04d", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 65, 2018-03-16
L2/16-210 Nederhof, Mark-Jan; et al. (2017-01-25), A system of control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text
L2/17-112R N4818 Glass, Andrew; et al. (2017-05-12), A method for encoding Egyptian quadrats in Unicode
L2/17-153 Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "2. Egyptian hieroglyphs – Quadrats", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals
L2/17-103 Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "C.7.2", UTC #151 Minutes
L2/17-222 Moore, Lisa (2017-08-11), "C.24", UTC #152 Minutes
N4953 (pdf, doc) "M66.07g, h, and k", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23
L2/17-353 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken (2017-10-02), "I. Changes to Egyptian Hieroglyphs Format Controls", WG2 Consent Docket
L2/18-036 N4926 Everson, Michael; Glass, Andrew (2018-01-18), Glyphs for Egyptian Hieroglyphic control characters
L2/17-362 Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C9 and 153-C10", UTC #153 Minutes
L2/18-115 Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "Action item 154-A100", UTC #155 Minutes, Create new glyphs for U+13432..U+13435 based on L2/18-036 and discussion in the meeting.
L2/18-236 Nederhof, Mark-Jan (2018-06-13), A note on the syntax of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic control characters
N5001 Glass, Andrew (2018-06-19), Comments on names for Egyptian Hieroglyph control characters in PDAM 2.3
L2/18-241 Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2018-07-20), "3. Egyptian Hieroglyphs", Recommendations to UTC # 156 July 2018 on Script Proposals
L2/18-183 Moore, Lisa (2018-11-20), "Consensus B.1.1.4 and C.9.2", UTC #156 Minutes
N5020 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "9.3.1", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67
15.0 U+13439..13455 29 L2/21-208 Glass, Andrew; Grotenhuis, Jorke; Nederhof, Mark-Jan; Polis, Stéphane; Rosmorduc, Serge; Werning, Daniel A. (2021-08-11), Additional control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts
L2/21-174 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Liang, Hai (2021-10-01), "2a. Format Control Characters", Recommendations to UTC #169 October 2021 on Script Proposals
L2/21-248 Glass, Andrew; Grotenhuis, Jorke; Nederhof, Mark-Jan; Polis, Stéphane; Rosmorduc, Serge; Werning, Daniel A. (2021-12-22), Additional control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts
L2/22-023 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2022-01-22), "4. Egyptian Hieroglyphs", Recommendations to UTC #170 January 2022 on Script Proposals
L2/22-016 Constable, Peter (2022-04-21), "D.1 4a Format Control Characters and D.1 4b Variation Sequences for Egyptian Hieroglyphs", UTC #170 Minutes
L2/22-068 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2022-04-15), "16. Egyptian Hieroglyphs", Recommendations to UTC #171 April 2022 on Script Proposals
L2/22-061 Constable, Peter (2022-07-27), "D.1 Section 16 Egyptian Hieroglyphs", Approved Minutes of UTC Meeting 171
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. ^ "Unicode Character Database: Standardized Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.
  4. ^ "11.4 Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Lost Signs". The Unicode Standard, Version 15.0 (PDF). Unicode, Inc. September 2022.
  5. ^ "Additional control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts" (PDF). 2021-12-22.
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