Old North Arabian (Unicode block)

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Old North Arabian
RangeU+10A80..U+10A9F
(32 code points)
Plane SMP
Scripts Old North Arabian
Major alphabets Ancient North Arabian
Assigned32 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
7.0 (2014)32 (+32)
Chart
Code chart
Note: [1] [2]

Old North Arabian is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Ancient North Arabian language.

Contents

U+10A9D OLD NORTH ARABIAN NUMBER ONE (𐪝) represents both the numeral one and a word divider. [3]

Old North Arabian [1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
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U+10A8x𐪀𐪁𐪂𐪃𐪄𐪅𐪆𐪇𐪈𐪉𐪊𐪋𐪌𐪍𐪎𐪏
U+10A9x𐪐𐪑𐪒𐪓𐪔𐪕𐪖𐪗𐪘𐪙𐪚𐪛𐪜𐪝𐪞𐪟
Notes
1. ^ As of Unicode version 14.0

History

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

Version Final code points [lower-alpha 1] Count L2  ID WG2  IDDocument
7.0U+10A80..10A9F32 L2/10-074R N3773R Everson, Michael (2010-03-30), Preliminary proposal to encode the Old North Arabian script in the SMP of the UCS
L2/10-108 Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "C.19", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes
L2/10-376 N3937 Everson, Michael; Macdonald, M. C. A. (2010-10-11), Proposal to encode the Old North Arabian script in the SMP
N3903 (pdf, doc)"M57.19", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  3. Everson, Michael; Macdonald, M. C. A. "N3937: Proposal to encode the Old North Arabian script in the SMP of the UCS" (PDF). Retrieved 20 August 2016.