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

[William_J_G Overington]

I know hardly anything about the structure of SVG and XML so I cannot 
comment on any perceived similarities to what I have written.
 
 
Peter Constable wrote:
 
 
> While perhaps interesting as a thought experiment, I don’t think 
> you’ll get much interest unless you can provide compelling reasons why 
> yet another format is needed.
  
 
What happened was that I was looking throuh the UTC Current Document 
Register and I had a look at the document mentioned in the first post in 
this thread.
 
 
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2024/24045-ancient-egyptian-rotations.pdf
   
 
I saw the statement in the conclusions "and suggest a level of 
palaeographic detail that Unicode cannot deliver."
  
 
It occurred to me that Unicode could possibly deliver that level of 
palaeographic detail if a subset of the system that I had written about 
in a chapter of my first novel, with the addition of a Gr command for 
Glyph rotation, were implemented using Unicode tag characters. (I later 
added a Gm comand for Glyph mirroring horizontally.)
 
 
So I wrote about my opinion and posted in this mailing list. Some of us 
are having a discussion and maybe some other people are also reading the 
thread.
  
 
I would be pleased if people are interested and maybe, just maybe, what 
I have written may some day help in the encoding of palaeographic detail 
in Unicode, but if there is no interest, then there we are. I have no 
expertise in Egyptology. My research interests are in other topics.
  
  
> In any case, what you’re discussing is a higher-level protocol than 
> Unicode. 
 
 
I am thinking here of tag characters being used in a Unicode plain text 
environment to add capability to what can be encoded in Unicode. Tag 
characters are used to encode The Welsh Flag.
  
   
> _Unicode_ will not be delivering this any time soon.
 
 
I have suggested an additional way to encode palaeographic detail in a 
Unicode plain text environment. The method is available free to use if 
people want to apply it.
 
 
William Overington
  
 
Thursday 7 March 2024
 
 
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