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Unicode block Unicode character block
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:
The block range was expanded from U+13430..1343F to U+13430..1345F with version 15.0.

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

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

Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls
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.

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

  • 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

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 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

References

  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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