| Old Persian | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+103A0..U+103DF (64 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Old Persian |
| Major alphabets | Old Persian |
| Assigned | 50 code points |
| Unused | 14 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 4.1 (2005) | 50 (+50) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1] [2] | |
Old Persian is a Unicode block containing cuneiform characters for writing the Old Persian language of the Achaemenid Empire.
| Old Persian [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+103Ax | 𐎠 | 𐎡 | 𐎢 | 𐎣 | 𐎤 | 𐎥 | 𐎦 | 𐎧 | 𐎨 | 𐎩 | 𐎪 | 𐎫 | 𐎬 | 𐎭 | 𐎮 | 𐎯 |
| U+103Bx | 𐎰 | 𐎱 | 𐎲 | 𐎳 | 𐎴 | 𐎵 | 𐎶 | 𐎷 | 𐎸 | 𐎹 | 𐎺 | 𐎻 | 𐎼 | 𐎽 | 𐎾 | 𐎿 |
| U+103Cx | 𐏀 | 𐏁 | 𐏂 | 𐏃 | 𐏈 | 𐏉 | 𐏊 | 𐏋 | 𐏌 | 𐏍 | 𐏎 | 𐏏 | ||||
| U+103Dx | 𐏐 | 𐏑 | 𐏒 | 𐏓 | 𐏔 | 𐏕 | ||||||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Old Persian block:
| Version | Final code points [lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.1 | U+103A0..103C3, 103C8..103D5 | 50 | L2/97-269 | N1639 | Everson, Michael (1997-09-18), Proposal to encode Old Persian Cuneiform, Plane 1 |
| L2/98-070 | Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold, "3.A.4. item c. Old Persian Cuneiform", Minutes of the joint UTC and L2 meeting from the meeting in Cupertino, February 25-27, 1998 | ||||
| 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 | |||
| L2/99-224 | N2097, N2025-2 | Röllig, W. (1999-07-23), Comments on proposals for the Universal Multiple-Octed Coded Character Set | |||
| N2133 | Response to comments on the question of encoding Old Semitic scripts in the UCS (N2097), 1999-10-04 | ||||
| L2/00-010 | N2103 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-01-05), "10.4", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark: 1999-09-13—16 | |||
| L2/00-128 | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode | ||||
| L2/01-007 | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-12-21), "Old Persian cuneiform", Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode | ||||
| L2/02-009 | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2001-11-23), "Old Persian cuneiform script", 2nd Iranian Meeting Report | ||||
| L2/03-097 | N2545 | Everson, Michael (2002-12-03), Revised proposal to encode the Old Persian script in the UCS | |||
| L2/03-149R | N2583R | Everson, Michael (2003-09-18), Final proposal to encode the Old Persian script in the UCS | |||
| L2/05-289 | Whistler, Ken (2005-10-06), Cuneiform property inconsistencies | ||||
| L2/05-279 | Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), "B.14.1", UTC #105 Minutes | ||||
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