Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls


Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls is a Unicode block containing formatting characters that enable full formatting of quadrats for Egyptian hieroglyphs.
The block size was expanded by 32 code points in Unicode version 15.0, and 29 more characters were defined.

Block

The Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls block has four variation sequences defined for standardized variants.
Variation selector-1 can be used to expand "lost" sign shading to achieve 'continuous shading' for the following characters:
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History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls block: