# 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 → version 15: 1345F), and 29 more characters were defined.

## Block

Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :
| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| U+1343x | 𓐰 | 𓐱 | 𓐲 | 𓐳 | 𓐴 | 𓐵 | 𓐶 | 𓐷 | 𓐸 | 𓐹 | 𓐺 | 𓐻 | 𓐼 | 𓐽 | 𓐾 | 𓐿 |
| U+1344x | 𓑀 | FB | HB | 𓑃 | 𓑄 | 𓑅 | 𓑆 | 𓑇 | 𓑈 | 𓑉 | 𓑊 | 𓑋 | 𓑌 | 𓑍 | 𓑎 | 𓑏 |
| U+1345x | 𓑐 | 𓑑 | 𓑒 | 𓑓 | 𓑔 | 𓑕 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points |||||||||||||||||
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:
| Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/99-008 | N1944 | Everson, Michael (1999-01-09), Encoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs in Plane 1 of the UCS |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/00-010 | N2103 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-01-05), "10.1", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark: 1999-09-13—16 |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/15-069 | | Richmond, Bob (2015-02-03), Egyptian Hieroglyphs in Unicode plain text, a note on a suggested approach |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/15-149 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Pandey, Anshuman; Glass, Andrew (2015-05-03), "14. Egyptian", Recommendations to UTC #143 May 2015 on Script Proposals |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/15-123 | | Richmond, Bob (2015-05-04), Proposal to encode three control characters for Egyptian Hieroglyphs |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/16-037 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-01-22), "14. Egyptian Hieroglyphs", Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/16-018 | | Richmond, Bob; Glass, Andrew (2016-01-26), Proposal to encode three control characters for Egyptian Hieroglyphs |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/16-004 | | Moore, Lisa (2016-02-01), "C.9.1", UTC #146 Minutes |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/16-090 | | Nederhof, Mark-Jan; Rajan, Vinodh (2016-04-18), Comments on three control characters for Egyptian Hieroglyphs |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/16-104 | | Richmond, Bob (2016-05-02), Observations: L2/16-090 |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/16-156 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-05-06), "4. Egyptian hieroglyphs", Recommendations to UTC #147 May 2016 on Script Proposals |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/16-177 | | Nederhof, Mark-Jan; et al. (2016-06-30), A comprehensive system of control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text (preliminary version) |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/16-199 | | Overington, William (2016-07-05), A suggestion ... for Ancient Egyptian |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/16-212 | | Overington, William (2016-07-26), A comment about the encoding of control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/16-216 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa (2016-07-30), "3. Egyptian hieroglyphs", Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/16-214 | | Richmond, Bob (2016-08-01), An Extension to the three control characters for Egyptian Hieroglyphs and some additional remarks |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/16-218 | | Anderson, Deborah (2016-08-01), Brief Report from Cambridge meeting of Egyptologists and Update |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/16-227 | | Richmond, Bob (2016-08-04), The Universal Hieroglyphic Writing System: Consensus and possible compromise |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/16-231 | | Rosmorduc, Serge; et al. (2016-08-04), Proposal for Ancient Egyptian encoding in Unicode |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/16-232 | | Glass, Andrew (2016-08-05), Preliminary analysis of Egyptian Hieroglyph quadrat types |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/16-233 | | Nederhof, Mark-Jan; et al. (2016-08-05), Addendum to: A system of control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/16-203 | | Moore, Lisa (2016-08-18), "B.1.3 and C.7", UTC #148 Minutes |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | | N4873R (pdf, doc) | "M65.04d", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 65, 2018-03-16 |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/16-210 | | Nederhof, Mark-Jan; et al. (2017-01-25), A system of control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/17-112R | N4818 | Glass, Andrew; et al. (2017-05-12), A method for encoding Egyptian quadrats in Unicode |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/17-153 | | Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "2. Egyptian hieroglyphs – Quadrats", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/17-103 | | Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "C.7.2", UTC #151 Minutes |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/17-222 | | Moore, Lisa (2017-08-11), "C.24", UTC #152 Minutes |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | | N4953 (pdf, doc) | "M66.07g, h, and k", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23 |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/17-353 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken (2017-10-02), "I. Changes to Egyptian Hieroglyphs Format Controls", WG2 Consent Docket |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/18-036 | N4926 | Everson, Michael; Glass, Andrew (2018-01-18), Glyphs for Egyptian Hieroglyphic control characters |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/17-362 | | Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C9 and 153-C10", UTC #153 Minutes |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/18-115 | | Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "Action item 154-A100", UTC #155 Minutes, Create new glyphs for U+13432..U+13435 based on L2/18-036 and discussion in the meeting. |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/18-236 | | Nederhof, Mark-Jan (2018-06-13), A note on the syntax of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic control characters |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | | N5001 | Glass, Andrew (2018-06-19), Comments on names for Egyptian Hieroglyph control characters in PDAM 2.3 |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/18-241 | | Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2018-07-20), "3. Egyptian Hieroglyphs", Recommendations to UTC # 156 July 2018 on Script Proposals |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | L2/18-183 | | Moore, Lisa (2018-11-20), "Consensus B.1.1.4 and C.9.2", UTC #156 Minutes |
| 12.0 | U+13430..13438 | 9 | | N5020 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "9.3.1", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67 |
| 15.0 | U+13439..13455 | 29 | L2/21-208 | | Glass, Andrew; Grotenhuis, Jorke; Nederhof, Mark-Jan; Polis, Stéphane; Rosmorduc, Serge; Werning, Daniel A. (2021-08-11), Additional control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts |
| 15.0 | U+13439..13455 | 29 | L2/21-174 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Liang, Hai (2021-10-01), "2a. Format Control Characters", Recommendations to UTC #169 October 2021 on Script Proposals |
| 15.0 | U+13439..13455 | 29 | L2/21-248 | | Glass, Andrew; Grotenhuis, Jorke; Nederhof, Mark-Jan; Polis, Stéphane; Rosmorduc, Serge; Werning, Daniel A. (2021-12-22), Additional control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts |
| 15.0 | U+13439..13455 | 29 | L2/22-023 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2022-01-22), "4. Egyptian Hieroglyphs", Recommendations to UTC #170 January 2022 on Script Proposals |
| 15.0 | U+13439..13455 | 29 | L2/22-016 | | Constable, Peter (2022-04-21), "D.1 4a Format Control Characters and D.1 4b Variation Sequences for Egyptian Hieroglyphs", UTC #170 Minutes |
| 15.0 | U+13439..13455 | 29 | L2/22-068 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2022-04-15), "16. Egyptian Hieroglyphs", Recommendations to UTC #171 April 2022 on Script Proposals |
| 15.0 | U+13439..13455 | 29 | L2/22-061 | | Constable, Peter (2022-07-27), "D.1 Section 16 Egyptian Hieroglyphs", Approved Minutes of UTC Meeting 171 |
| ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ||||||