Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls
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 โ 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 ๐ EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH LOST SIGN
- U+13444 ๐ EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH HALF LOST SIGN
- U+13445 ๐ EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH TALL LOST SIGN
- U+13446 ๐ 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: