Of your three issues:
1. LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H WITH LINE BELOW
2. something that looks like a right half ring with a tail egyptologists
have represented it with something that looks like two right half rings
stacked on top of each other.
3. a capital and small glottal stop and reversed glottal stop
For (1), they are already representable in Unicode, as you state. The policy
is not to introduce new precomposed characters, because of normalization
stability. A new precomposed character is disallowed in NFC, so it would end
up being decomposed in NFC systems in any event: with XML, etc.
For (2), (3), we would need a submission with documentation of usage. We do
add capital/small versions of characters when there is sufficient evidence
of their usage. This happens, for example, when an IPA is pressed into
service in the regular orthography of a language.
To submit a proposal, go to www.unicode.org, click on "submitting proposals"
(you may already be following that, since it recommends discussing proposals
on this list!)
Mark
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----- Original Message -----
From: <Spencer_Tasker@rcomext.com>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 12:42 AM
Subject: Egyptian Transliteration Characters
> Hello One and All,
>
> Before setting off down the path of submitting a couple of new characters
I
> would like to run them past you for your consideration. If I have ben
blind
> as a bat and these characters already exist please correct me in my error.
> But first, a little context...
>
> I am an Egyptologist and, as you can imagine, transliteration is big in
> Egyptology since it is not only essential in language teaching but a major
> convenience in its own right. While complete unanimity is lacking amongst
> egyptologists concerning the conventions for transliteration there is way
> better than 95% agreement on the basics. Not surprisingly the Unicode
> character-set already addresses nearly every character required to
> transliterate Ancient Egyptian according to any of the alternative schemes
> which may be used.
>
> However, it appears that one character is missing (OK, 2 characters if we
> say uncial and diminuative) and another is not available in the form in
> which egyptologists are accustomed to encounter it.
>
> The missing characters can be characterised as follows:
>
> LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H WITH LINE BELOW
> LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH LINE BELOW
>
> I model these descriptions on those of 1E0E, 1E6E, 1E2A, 1E24 (at least
> insofar as the capital is concerned).
>
> Now, I know that the correct appearance could be achieved using combining
> characters, but it seems a pain to have to do this for one character only.
>
> The other character - the one that just does not appear in a form commonly
> used in egyptology - corresponds in function to the glottal stop
(02C0),but
> rather than represent this as something that looks like a right half ring
> with a tail egyptologists have represented it with something that looks
> like two right half rings stacked on top of each other. To illustrate this
> rather poor description a little more graphically let me say that in
> typescript egyptologists often just fake it by typing a "3". By the way we
> typically refer to this character as "aleph", modelled on the Hebrew.
> ... Then there is the small issue that we like to use capitals in
> transliterating proper nouns - but does it even make sense to have a
> capital and small glottal stop and reversed glottal stop? I will stop now
> before I embarass myself.
>
> Many thanks to all who will reply.
>
> - Spencer Tasker
>
>
>
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