Rustom Mody wrote: > On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 6:33:33 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>>Anyone who thinks that we're heading back to hieroglyphics simply isn't >>paying attention. >>> Which are just text in the range 13000-1342F: > http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U13000.pdf Moreover, the Egyptian heiroglyphs are *not* pictograms, they're a phonetic alphabet. It's a textual form of writing just as much as ours is. -- Greg