> phallic hieroglyphics The alternative is to just not have Egyptian hieroglyphs in Unicode. The phallus is a frequently used symbol in Middle Egyptian. Then a

> phallic hieroglyphics The alternative is to just not have Egyptian hieroglyphs in Unicode. The phallus is a frequently used symbol in Middle Egyptian. Then again, what's there is half-assed. There are no joining characters, so nothing displays right. And while you'll probably have the characters you need most of the time if you're dealing with Old Egyptian or Late Egyptian texts, Serapis help you if you're working with Ptolemaic-period texts. At least the situation is better than with cuneiform, where Unicode alone can't represent a text because the characters drastically vary over time and you need to make sure you're using the right font.