Re: Unicode 5.1, Egyptian Transliteration, and Fonts

Michael Everson wrote:

>You have not understood.

Granted; I interpreted the description as implying that the accent should
sit atop the Latin letter.

>u+0301 and U+0313 both sit in front of capital Greek letters and atop 
>small Greek letters.

>u+0301 and U+0313 both sit atop capital and small Latin letters.

>The required behaviour is for something like U+0313 to sit in front 
>of capital Latain letters and atop small Latin letters. U+0313 can't 
>do that, since it already has a behaviour in Latin.

>Language-tagging for "Egyptological transliteration" is not, I think, 
>an option. The proposed solution, to use U+0486, works quite well.

I agree. Language support to deal with unusual behaviour of one letter would
appear extravagant.

Charles Cox