Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls
Unicode block (U+13430-1345F)
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.
Variation selector-1 (VS1) (U+FE00) can be used to expand "lost" sign shading to achieve 'continuous shading' for the following characters:
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:
See also
Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Unicode block)
Egyptian Hieroglyphs Extended-A (Unicode block)
References
External links
"UAX #57: Unicode Egyptian Hieroglyph Database". www.unicode.org.
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