In addition, the slight variations in signs that are important for analysis of the text cannot be included within Unicode. There are considerations which can be implemented to help programmers who wish to implement hieratic independently of Unicode. Unicode could give two code points to the sign m so that computerized transcriptions of hieratic texts can make this distinction. Demotic, especially since the demise of the Normaschrift, cannot be adapted to encoding. Transliteration should be the extent of demotic s inclusion.
Further suggestions are welcome.
Acknowledgments I would like to thank the following people for their input in this project. This proposal does not necessarily represent the personal opinions of any of the following people, but is, rather, my synthesis of the opinions I have collected from them. This proposal does not necessarily represent the opinions of the Brown University Department of Egyptology, or the organizations of which the following people are a part.