FOR ARCHIVING: Registration form for 'mdcegyp'

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LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM

1. Name of requester: Daniel A. Werning
2. E-mail address of requester: daniel.werning&bbaw.de

3. Record Requested:

Type: variant
Subtag: mdcegyp
Description: Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs encoded in Manuel de Codage
Prefix: egy

4. Intended meaning of the subtag:

Encoding of Egyptian hieroglyphs according to the "Manuel de Codage"
recommendations.

5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article):

- Buurman, Jan, Nicolas Grimal, Michael Hainsworth, Jochem Hallof & Dirk
  van der Plas. 1988. Inventaire des signes hiéroglyphiques en vue de
  leur saisie informatique: Manuel de codage des textes hiéroglyphiques
  en vue de leur saisie sur ordinateur. 3rd, rev. ed. Paris.
- van den Berg, Hans. 1997. "Manuel de Codage": A standard system for
  the computer-encoding of Egyptian transliteration and hieroglyphic
  texts. (Current URL:) http://www.catchpenny.org/codage/ (accessed
  December 13, 2024)
- Wikipedia contributors, "Manuel de Codage," Wikipedia, The Free
  Encyclopedia,
  https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manuel_de_Codage&oldid=1261111258
  (accessed December 13, 2024).

6. Any other relevant information:

Before the times of Unicode, Egyptology used a system defined in the
so-called "Manuel de Codage" to encode Egyptian hieroglyphs (egy-Egyp),
using Latin characters available on standard US/DE/FR keyboards.
For example "Y3-Y1-Z2-N35-D36-X1-O1-M17-Y5-N35-X1-Y1"
(egy-Latn-*mdcegyp) for 𓏞𓏛𓐰𓏥𓈖𓂝𓐰𓏏𓐱𓉐𓇋𓏠𓐰𓈖𓏏𓐰𓏛 (egy-Egyp).
This Latin-based encoding of Egyptian hieroglyphs is still widely used
in software implementations (e.g., JSesh, Unicode keyboards),
Egyptological (online/offline) databases (e.g., Thesaurus Linguae
Aegyptiae [v1.x and v2.x], Ramsès, Wikipedia), and communication among
Egyptologists. Moreover, there are plenty of Egyptian texts in
hieroglyphs encoded according to Manuel de Codage (egy-*mdcegyp).