Ogham (Unicode block)

Ogham
Range	U+1680..U+169F (32 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Ogham
Major alphabets	Irish Ogham
Assigned	29 code points
Unused	3 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.0 (1999)	29 (+29)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1] [2]

Graphical representation of the Ogham Unicode block

Ogham is a Unicode block containing characters for representing Primitive Irish language inscriptions as codified in the Ogham script.

Ogham [1] [2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

U+168x

ᚁ

ᚂ

ᚃ

ᚄ

ᚅ

ᚆ

ᚇ

ᚈ

ᚉ

ᚊ

ᚋ

ᚌ

ᚍ

ᚎ

ᚏ

U+169x

ᚐ

ᚑ

ᚒ

ᚓ

ᚔ

ᚕ

ᚖ

ᚗ

ᚘ

ᚙ

ᚚ

᚛

᚜

Notes 1. ^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2. ^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Ogham block:

Version	Final code points [a]	Count	L2  ID	WG2  ID	Document
3.0	U+1680..169C	29		N1103R	Everson, Michael (16 November 1994), Proposal for encoding the Ogham script in ISO 10646
				N1203	Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (3 May 1995), "6.1.5.1", Unconfirmed minutes of SC2/WG2 Meeting 27, Geneva
			X3L2/96-101	N1443	Everson, Michael; Jarnefors, Olle (4 August 1996), Allocating Ogham and Runes to the BMP: a strategy for making the BMP maximally useful
			X3L2/96-123		Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (18 December 1996), "3.2", Preliminary Minutes - UTC #71 & X3L2 #168 ad hoc meeting, San Diego - December 5-6, 1996
			L2/97-049	N1543	Everson, Michael (27 March 1997), Proposed pDAM text for Ogham
				N1577	Everson, Michael (30 May 1997), Results of National Enquiry on Ogham
			L2/97-155	N1610	Everson, Michael (1 July 1997), Text for pDAM for Ogham
			L2/97-288	N1603	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (24 October 1997), "8.6", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997
			L2/98-077	N1695	Paterson, Bruce (22 February 1998), Proposed Disposition of Comments on SC2 letter ballot on FPDAMs 16, 19, & 20 (Braille patterns, Runic, Ogham)
			L2/98-134	N1772	Paterson, Bruce (6 April 1998), Revised Text of ISO 10646 Amendment 20 - Ogham
				N1764	Paterson, Bruce (6 April 1998), Disposition of Comments Report on SC 2 N2971: Amendment 20 - Ogham
			L2/98-286	N1703	Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (2 July 1998), "6.2.3 FPDAM-19 on Runic and FPDAM-20 on Ogham", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20
			L2/07-340		Davis, Mark (6 October 2007), OGHAM SPACE MARK shouldn't be whitespace
			L2/07-392		Everson, Michael (17 October 2007), Irish comments on L2/07-340 "OGHAM SPACE MARK shouldn't be whitespace"
			L2/07-345		Moore, Lisa (25 October 2007), "Ogham Space Mark", UTC #113 Minutes
			L2/08-142	N3407	Representation of Ogham Space, Tamil named sequences, 9 April 2008
			L2/08-318	N3453 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (13 August 2008), "M52.1", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52, Insert a dashed box around the current dash-looking glyph for 1680 OGHAM SPACE MARK, based on document N3407
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

• Mac OS Ogham

References

1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 26 July 2023.