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: → 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:
History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls block:
Version Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document 12.0 U+13430..13438 9 N1944 N2103 doc) N4818 doc) N4926 N5001 doc) 15.0 U+13439..13455 29
See also Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Unicode block) Egyptian Hieroglyphs Extended-A (Unicode block)
References
External links
The Unikemet database in Unicode 16.0.0