Muke Tever scripsit:

> Indeed. It'd also be nice to have Egyptian hieroglyphics already.

Send money to the Script Encoding Initiative, then. That is the one
and only way of Getting Things Done in archaic scripts.

See http://www.unicode.org/sei/

> We can't even properly _transliterate_ Egyptian words without the
> "3"-like aleph sign -- do we have that yet?

No, but you can use U+02BE and U+02BF, the MODIFIER LETTER LEFT and
RIGHT HALF RINGs, which serve the same function as Egyptological
alef and ayin. There is a proposal from Michael to encode the proper
characters, but until there's money it can't get progressed.

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