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Manuel de Codage
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The Manuel de Codage is a standard system for the computer-encoding of Egyptian transliteration and hieroglyphic texts.
In 1984 a committee was charged with the task to develop a uniform system for the encoding of hieroglyphic texts on the computer. The resulting Manual for the Encoding of Hieroglyphic Texts for Computer-input (Jan Buurman, Nicolas Grimal, Jochen Hallof, Michael Hainsworth and Dirk van der Plas, Informatique et Egyptologie 2, Paris 1988) is generally shortened to Manuel de Codage. It presents an easy to use way of encoding hieroglyphic writing as well as the abbreviated hieroglyphic transliteration. The encoding system of the Manuel de Codage has since been adopted by international Egyptology as the official common standard for registering hieroglyphic texts on the computer.
Egyptologists have scheduled a revision for 2007 of the Manuel de Codage, in order to ensure broader implementation in current and future software.
There are hundreds of hieroglyphs though, some transliterated by a single letter, others by two or more Latin letters. The full Manuel De Codage includes these plus frequently used bi- and tri-literal hieroglyphs. It also lists a great number of hieroglyphs that are not represented at all in transliterations, being used as determinatives rather than phonemes.