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-boun...@unicode.org> On Behalf Of Ken Whistler via Unicode Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2020 12:08 PM To: Phake Nick <c933...@gmail.com> Cc: unicode@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.