Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls is a
Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ad ...
containing formatting characters that enable full formatting of quadrats for
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs (, ) were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt, used for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with some 1,000 distinct characters.There were about 1,00 ...
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The block size was expanded by 32 code points in Unicode version 15.0 (version 14: → version 15: ), 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:
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History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls block:
See also
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Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Unicode block)
Egyptian Hieroglyphs is a Unicode block containing the Gardiner's sign list of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Block
The Egyptian Hieroglyphs Unicode block has 94 standardized variants defined to specify rotated signs:
* Variation selector-1 (VS1) (U+ ...
References
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Unicode blocks