I am trying to transcribe some images of illustrations of hieroglyphics into Unicode. I am having a hard time and right off the bat there seem to be slight variations in the structure of the hieroglyph. For example, in the illustration attached, the first ellipse has a line off to the side, while the one on Unicode has either 2 lines or no line ๐. Then the bird, how do you pick a bird?
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There are about 50 birds that don't vary too much for the most part. Wikipedia tells us this:
- ๐ฟ = alef
- ๐ = tyu
- ๐ = Horus
- ... many don't have a meaning on wikipedia
- ๐ = eternity
- ๐ = divine
- ๐ = Thoth, god of scribes
- ๐ = To find or discover
- ๐ ฃ = to be good / beautiful
- ๐ ช = small or bad
- ๐ ฌ = son of / daughter of
- ๐ ฑ = pluralizes words
- ...
But then you see a bird like in the image on the attachment, and then go like "How do I decide which bird is the right one?"
So my question is, how would you take the image below and make it into Unicode? How do you know you're picking the right one, even though there are such slight variations in the Unicode hieroglyphs like the birds, and also in the drawings like the attachment shows (comparing its glyphs with Unicode).
And here is all of the Unicode characters which are possible for transcribing glyphs into Unicode. It seems like a lot are missing, I don't know, what do you think? What are your thoughts? How are you supposed to accurately translate an image into Unicode (or some more extensive code perhaps). Unicode is based on the Gardiner numberings from what I've seen, but maybe that doesn't cover all of the possible glyphs. So what are you supposed to do? Anyway, here are the glyphs.
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