Standards-9989
If a researcher is working from a sketch of a hieroglyphic that no longer exists, they will have to work for what that artist left behind.
Here I am guessing the digonal lines .. means strike through or "I can't really be sure what this glyph is" ???
While the line numbers are essential, horizontal lines can and should be rendered to vertical lines if possible. It is a problem I never thought of before when creating standards, but even the horizontal lines can be kept in tact with a little additional lines in the program.
What % of hieroglyphic text is written horizontally?
The standard digital code would make research a snap, only if the Egyptology community adopts it.
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This is a hieroglyphic I have been told has a word that translates to "Asiatic" .
If every set of glyphs were given a 4 digit code assigned to it
a) The transcriber could create that glyph by typing it's number and
b) As each hieroglyphic source was typed into a data base, that digital code would be placed in that file.
Hypothetical a word took 3 glyphs 0157.0027.1002 (periods take the place of spaces)
If the standardized program read these numbers it would create the set of glyphs.
If a search for this word was placed in the standardized program, it could search thousands of hieroglyphic sources that had been entered into the data base and display the same word in it's context.
To understand the meaning Egyptians applied to words, seeing it in the context of different works would give more information as to what a set of hieroglyphics actually meant to the Egyptians.
If a word was thought to translate to the European word Asiatic and in a cross reference it was found the same word was applied to an Egyptian's brother and in another source, it was applied to another Egyptian's camel ... translators would rethink what the word actually meant.
If different translators looked at different sources of hieroglyphics and determined that a set of glyphs held the European meaning, Asiatic, they could cross reference their word with other sources which were believed to have that meaning.
How fast could one research for specific hieroglyphic text? Do a search on Google and see their search program finding a word or a phrase in a couple million web pages in a matter of seconds.
Assigning each glyph a standard 4 digit number is the key to do a super search on every hieroglyphic entered into a common data base.
Creating a standard set of fonts for all glyphs is the key to placing all transcribers on the same page and all future readers of hieroglyphics would have the ability to recognize which glyph they were looking at.
More about standard glyphs.. later
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