FOR ARCHIVING: Registration form for 'mdctrans'

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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: mdctrans
Description: Ancient Egyptian transliteration encoded in Manuel de
  Codage
Prefix: egy

4. Intended meaning of the subtag:

Encoding of Egyptological phonological transliteration/transcription of
Ancient Egyptian 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.
- 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 predominately used "Manuel de
Codage" to encode Egyptological transcription/transliteration
(egy-Latn), using Latin characters available on standard US/DE/FR
keyboards.
For example: "zXA.w n(.y) a.t-imn.t" (egy-Latn-*mdctrans) for
"zẖꜣ.w n(.ï) ꜥ.t-ꞽmn.t" (modern Leiden Unified Transliteration;
egy-Latn-*leidentr)
This Latin-based encoding of Egyptological transcription/transliteration
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, The Demotic Palaeographical
Database Project, Wikipedia), and communication among Egyptologists.