On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 22:55:17 +0100 Philippe Verdy via Unicode <[email protected]> wrote:
> I can also cite the case of Egyptian hieroglyphs: there's still no > way to render them correctly because we lack the development of a > stable orthography that would drive the encoding of the missing > **semantic** characters (for this reason Egyptian hieroglyphs still > require an upper layer protocol, as there's still no accepted > orthographic norm that successfully represents all possible semantic > variations, but alsop because the research on old Egyptian > hieroglyphs is still aphic very incomplete). If you study the document register, you'll find that layout control characters are being added. I think semantic characters would have depended on the font to select the rendering consequences; this will now not happen. What we're getting is more rigorous version of the Manuel de Codage. Richard.
