L2/11‐049

TO: Technical Committee FROM: Deborah Anderson, Project Leader, Encoding Initiative, UC Berkeley DATE: 3 February 2011 RE: Liaison Report from UC Berkeley (Script Encoding Initiative)

This document serves as a summary of the UC Berkeley Script Encoding Initiative’s recent activities. Proposals recently submitted to the UTC that have involved SEI assistance include:  Afaka (Everson) [preliminary]  Elbasan (Everson and Elsie)  Khojki (Pandey)  Khudawadi (Pandey)  Linear A (Everson and Younger) [revised]  Nabataean (Everson)  Woleai (Everson) [preliminary]  Webdings/Wingdings

Ongoing work continues on the following:  Anatolian (Everson)  Balti (Pandey)  Dhives Akuru (Pandey)  Gangga Malayu (Pandey)  Gondi (Pandey)  Hungarian  Kpelle (Everson and Riley)  Landa (Pandey)  Loma (Everson)  (Pandey)  Maithili (Pandey)  Manichaean (Everson and Durkin‐Meisterernst)  Mende (Everson)  Modi (Pandey)  Nepali script (Pandey)  Old Albanian (Everson)  and Pau Cin Hau Logographs (Pandey)  Rañjana (Everson)  Siyaq (and related symbols) (Pandey)  Soyombo (Pandey)  Tani Lipi (Pandey)  Tolong Siki (Pandey)  (Everson)  Xawtaa Dorboljin (Mongolian Horizontal Square script) (Pandey)  Zou (Pandey)

Proposals for unencoded Greek papyrological signs, as well as for various Byzantine Greek and Sumero‐Akkadian characters are being discussed. A proposal for the Palaeohispanic script is also underway. Deborah Anderson is encouraging additional participation from Egyptologists for future work on Ptolemaic signs. She has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and support from Google to cover work through 2011.