Could Unicode deliver the level of paleographic detail needed for encoding ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs?

[Asmus Freytag]

On 3/5/2024 12:45 PM, James Kass via Unicode wrote:
> Here's one example of this misconception from the document:
> https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2024/24045-ancient-egyptian-rotations.pdf

The document makes a number of very cogent arguments that together imply 
that adding a layout language subset for arbitrary rotations into plain 
text is misguided based on the writing system, without even getting into 
the plain text/rich text discussion.

There are some rich text environments where it is possible to achieve a 
control over the placement and orientation of glyphs that is rather 
unrestricted. Those are the correct choice when it comes to faithfully 
representing individual examples of actual pale0graphic texts in all 
their details, accidental or intentional, regular or irregular.

We can all agree that duplicating such capabilities in plain text isn't 
desirable.

A./
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