RE: Egyptian Hieroglyph Man with a Laptop

From: Shawn Steele via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 20:15:07 +0000

I'm not opposed to a sub-bloc for "Modern Hieroglyphs"

I confess that even though I know nothing about Hieroglyphs, that I find it fascinating that such a thoroughly dead script might still be living in some way, even if it's only a little bit.

-Shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: Unicode <unicode-bounces_at_unicode.org> On Behalf Of Ken Whistler via Unicode
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2020 12:08 PM
To: Phake Nick <c933103_at_gmail.com>
Cc: unicode_at_unicode.org
Subject: Re: Egyptian Hieroglyph Man with a Laptop

You want "dubious"?!

You should see the hundreds of strange characters already encoded in the CJK *Unified* Ideographs blocks, as recently documented in great detail by Ken Lunde:

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20059-unihan-kstrange-update.pdf

Compared to many of those, a hieroglyph of a man (or woman) holding a laptop is positively orthodox!

--Ken

On 2/13/2020 11:47 AM, Phake Nick via Unicode wrote:
> Those characters could also be put into another block for the same
> script similar to how dubious characters in CJK are included by
> placing them into "CJK Compatibility Ideographs" for round trip
> compatibility with source encoding.
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