Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls

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Short description: Unicode block
Short description: Unicode character block
Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls
RangeU+13430..U+1345F
(48 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsEgyptian Hieroglyphs
Assigned9 code points
Unused39 reserved code points
Unicode version history
12.09 (+9)
Note: [1][2]
The block range was expanded from U+13430..1343F to U+13430..1345F with version 15.0.

Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls is a Unicode block containing formatting characters that enable full formatting of quadrats for Egyptian hieroglyphs.

The block size was expanded by 32 code points in Unicode version 15.0 (version 14: 1343F → version 15: 1345F), and 29 more characters were defined.

Block

The Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls block has four variation sequences defined for standardized variants.[3]

Variation selector-1 (VS1) (U+FE00) can be used to expand "lost" sign shading to achieve 'continuous shading' for the following characters:[4]

  • U+13443 𓑃 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH LOST SIGN
  • U+13444 𓑄 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH HALF LOST SIGN
  • U+13445 𓑅 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH TALL LOST SIGN
  • U+13446 𓑆 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH WIDE LOST SIGN

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls block:

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
L2/00-010 N2103 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-01-05), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark: 1999-09-13—16 
L2/15-069 Richmond, Bob (2015-02-03), Egyptian Hieroglyphs in Unicode plain text, a note on a suggested approach 
L2/15-149 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Pandey, Anshuman; Glass, Andrew (2015-05-03), Recommendations to UTC #143 May 2015 on Script Proposals 
L2/15-123 Richmond, Bob (2015-05-04), Proposal to encode three control characters for Egyptian Hieroglyphs 
L2/16-037 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-01-22), Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals 
L2/16-018 Richmond, Bob; Glass, Andrew (2016-01-26), Proposal to encode three control characters for Egyptian Hieroglyphs 
L2/16-004 Moore, Lisa (2016-02-01), UTC #146 Minutes 
L2/16-090 Nederhof, Mark-Jan; Rajan, Vinodh (2016-04-18), Comments on three control characters for Egyptian Hieroglyphs 
L2/16-104 Richmond, Bob (2016-05-02), Observations: L2/16-090 
L2/16-156 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-05-06), Recommendations to UTC #147 May 2016 on Script Proposals 
L2/16-177 Nederhof, Mark-Jan (2016-06-30), A comprehensive system of control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text (preliminary version) 
L2/16-199 Overington, William (2016-07-05), A suggestion ... for Ancient Egyptian 
L2/16-212 Overington, William (2016-07-26), A comment about the encoding of control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text 
L2/16-216 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa (2016-07-30), Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals 
L2/16-214 Richmond, Bob (2016-08-01), An Extension to the three control characters for Egyptian Hieroglyphs and some additional remarks 
L2/16-218 Anderson, Deborah (2016-08-01), Brief Report from Cambridge meeting of Egyptologists and Update 
L2/16-227 Richmond, Bob (2016-08-04), The Universal Hieroglyphic Writing System: Consensus and possible compromise 
L2/16-231 Rosmorduc, Serge (2016-08-04), Proposal for Ancient Egyptian encoding in Unicode 
L2/16-232 Glass, Andrew (2016-08-05), Preliminary analysis of Egyptian Hieroglyph quadrat types 
L2/16-233 Nederhof, Mark-Jan (2016-08-05), Addendum to: A system of control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text 
L2/16-203 Moore, Lisa (2016-08-18), UTC #148 Minutes 
N4873R (pdf, doc) Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 65, 2018-03-16 
L2/16-210 Nederhof, Mark-Jan (2017-01-25), A system of control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text 
L2/17-112R N4818 Glass, Andrew (2017-05-12), A method for encoding Egyptian quadrats in Unicode 
L2/17-153 Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals 
L2/17-103 Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), UTC #151 Minutes 
L2/17-222 Moore, Lisa (2017-08-11), UTC #152 Minutes 
N4953 (pdf, doc) Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23 
L2/17-353 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken (2017-10-02), WG2 Consent Docket 
L2/18-036 N4926 Everson, Michael; Glass, Andrew (2018-01-18), Glyphs for Egyptian Hieroglyphic control characters 
L2/17-362 Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), UTC #153 Minutes 
L2/18-115 Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), UTC #155 Minutes, "Create new glyphs for U+13432..U+13435 based on L2/18-036 and discussion in the meeting." 
L2/18-236 Nederhof, Mark-Jan (2018-06-13), A note on the syntax of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic control characters 
N5001 Glass, Andrew (2018-06-19), Comments on names for Egyptian Hieroglyph control characters in PDAM 2.3 
L2/18-241 Anderson, Deborah (2018-07-25), Recommendations to UTC # 156 July 2018 on Script Proposals 
L2/18-183 Moore, Lisa (2018-11-20), UTC #156 Minutes 
N5020 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67 
15.0 U+13439..13455 29 L2/21-208 Glass, Andrew; Grotenhuis, Jorke; Nederhof, Mark-Jan; Polis, Stéphane; Rosmorduc, Serge; Werning, Daniel A. (2021-08-11), Additional control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts 
L2/21-174 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Liang, Hai (2021-10-01), Recommendations to UTC #169 October 2021 on Script Proposals 
L2/21-248 Glass, Andrew; Grotenhuis, Jorke; Nederhof, Mark-Jan; Polis, Stéphane; Rosmorduc, Serge; Werning, Daniel A. (2021-12-22), Additional control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts 
L2/22-023 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2022-01-22), Recommendations to UTC #170 January 2022 on Script Proposals 
L2/22-016 Constable, Peter (2022-04-21), UTC #170 Minutes 
L2/22-068 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2022-04-15), Recommendations to UTC #171 April 2022 on Script Proposals 
L2/22-061 Constable, Peter (2022-07-27), Approved Minutes of UTC Meeting 171 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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