Old Permic (Unicode block)

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Old Permic
RangeU+10350..U+1037F
(48 code points)
Plane SMP
Scripts Old Permic
Major alphabetsOld Permic alphabet
Assigned43 code points
Unused5 reserved code points
Unicode version history
7.043 (+43)
Note: [1] [2]

Old Permic is a Unicode block containing Old Permic characters for writing the Komi language. [3]

A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the addition of new glyphs are discussed and evaluated by considering the relevant block or blocks as a whole.

The Komi language is a Uralic language spoken by the Komi peoples in the northeastern European part of Russia. Komi may be considered a single language with several dialects, or a group of closely related languages, making up one of the two branches of the Permic branch of the family. The other Permic language is Udmurt, to which Komi is closely related.

Contents

Block

Old Permic [1] [2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+1035x𐍐𐍑𐍒𐍓𐍔𐍕𐍖𐍗𐍘𐍙𐍚𐍛𐍜𐍝𐍞𐍟
U+1036x𐍠𐍡𐍢𐍣𐍤𐍥𐍦𐍧𐍨𐍩𐍪𐍫𐍬𐍭𐍮𐍯
U+1037x𐍰𐍱𐍲𐍳𐍴𐍵𐍶𐍷𐍸𐍹𐍺
Notes
1. ^ As of Unicode version 12.0
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 Old Permic block:

Version Final code points [lower-alpha 1] Count L2  ID WG2  IDDocument
7.0U+10350..1037A43 L2/98-034 N1687 Everson, Michael (1998-01-18), Draft proposal to encode Old Permic in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646
L2/98-286 N1703 Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), "8.19", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20
L2/99-064 N1947 Everson, Michael (1999-01-29), Revised proposal for encoding the Old Permic script in the UCS
L2/12-025 N4177 Everson, Michael (2012-01-24), Proposal for encoding the Old Permic script in the SMP of the UCS
L2/12-137 N4263 Everson, Michael (2012-04-26), Revised proposal for encoding the Old Permic script in the SMP of the UCS
L2/12-112 Moore, Lisa (2012-05-17), "C.12", UTC #131 / L2 #228 Minutes
  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 (2012-04-26). "N4263: Revised proposal for encoding the Old Permic script in the SMP of the UCS" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.Cite web requires |website= (help)