Re: Unicode 5.1, Egyptian Transliteration, and Fonts

At 00:23 +0000 2007-12-05, Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote:
>On 2007.12.02, 10:14, Charles <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  Script/Language dependent behaviour of combining accents is already a
>>  feature of Unicode, so U+0313 should be able to function as both the
>>  Greek spiritus lenis and as a diacritic for composing the Egyptological
>>  Yod when used with Latin script.
>
>OK, but what's the expected behaviour of the Egyptological Yod when used
>with *Greek* script? I mean there are surely Greek egyptologists, which,
>I guess, use mostly the Greek script.

The Egyptological Yod is a Latin letter i with a spiritus asper on it.

If you are asking whether Greeks use Greek letters to transliterate 
Egyptian, all I can say is "not to my knowledge".
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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com