From: Richard Wordingham (richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com)
Date: Wed Sep 27 2006 - 16:04:43 CST
Vincent Setterholm wrote on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 7:47 PM
> When transliterating Egyptian, there is a fairly common symbol that looks
> like two aleph transliteration marks (U+02BE) stacked on top of each
> other. I believe this is the same letter that is often transliterated
> using a glyph that looks similar to a numeral 3, but it is not
> phonetically an Ezh (U+01B7 or U+0292). Has there been any official
> discussion of this symbol? Has it been decided to use the Ezh, or has no
> one proposed a double aleph before?
Are you asking about the prospective U+A722/3 LATIN CAPITAL/SMALL LETTER
EGYPTOLOGICAL ALEF? The glyphs are shown in
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3078.pdf . There is a widespread
belief that they will be in Unicode 5.1.
Richard.
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