Supplemental Arrows-A

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Supplemental Arrows-A
RangeU+27F0..U+27FF
(16 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Common
Assigned16 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.2 (2002)16 (+16)
Note: [1] [2]

Supplemental Arrows-A is a Unicode block containing various arrow symbols.

Contents

Block

Supplemental Arrows-A [1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+27Fx
Notes
1. ^ As of Unicode version 13.0

History

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

Version Final code points [lower-alpha 1] Count L2  ID WG2  IDDocument
3.2U+27F0..27FF16 L2/99-049 Beeton, Barbara (1999-01-22), Addendum to L2/98-405: Request for assignment of codes to mathematical and technical symbols
L2/99-159 Beeton, Barbara (1999-06-01), Request for assignment of codes to mathematical and technical symbols that do not appear in Unicode 2.0 or ISO/IEC 10646
L2/99-176R Moore, Lisa (1999-11-04), "Math", Minutes from the joint UTC/L2 meeting in Seattle, June 8-10, 1999
L2/99-238 Consolidated document containing 6 Japanese proposals, 1999-07-15
L2/99-244R Beeton, Barbara (1999-08-26), Request for assignment of codes to mathematical and technical symbols that do not appear in Unicode 2.0 or ISO/IEC 10646
N2092 Addition of forty eight characters, 1999-09-13
L2/99-260R Moore, Lisa (2000-02-07), "Math and Technical Symbols", Minutes of the UTC/L2 meeting in Mission Viejo, October 26-28, 1999
L2/00-033R Whistler, Ken (2000-02-09), Encoding for STIX math symbols
L2/00-298 N2258 Sato, T. K. (2000-09-04), JIS X 0213 symbols part-2
L2/01-064 Ion, Patrick (2001-01-24), Mathematical Variant Symbols
L2/01-142 [lower-alpha 2] N2336 Beeton, Barbara; Freytag, Asmus; Ion, Patrick (2001-04-02), Additional Mathematical Symbols
L2/01-147 (pdf, html) N2343 Everson, Michael (2001-04-03), Encoding of Long Arrows
L2/01-156 N2356 Freytag, Asmus (2001-04-03), Additional Mathematical Characters (Draft 10)
L2/01-344 N2353 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-09-09), "7.7 Mathematical Symbols", Minutes from SC2/WG2 meeting #40 -- Mountain View, April 2001
L2/01-386R N2389R Suignard, Michel (2001-10-26), "Ireland: Negative", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 3530 (FPDAM text for Amendment 1 to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000) - revised version
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
  2. Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B block for additional math-related documents

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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.