question to Akkadian
Werner LEMBERG
wl at gnu.org
Mon May 19 14:13:48 CDT 2014
>> I'm interested in representing one of the so-called Hurrian songs
>> (tablet H.6, containing musical notation) with Unicode, cf.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrian_songs
>
> That says it represents qáb, which seems to be a version of Labat
> 88, which is U+1218F KAB.
>
> Unfortunately none of my fonts give the version shown in that
> drawing, but there may be one.
Thanks a lot! Will try to get the book you've mentioned...
BTW, it seems to me that cuneiforms would benefit enormously by
introducing variant selectors, collecting all cuneiform variants in a
database similar to the CJK stuff.
Werner
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