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Avestan (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Avestan
RangeU+10B00..U+10B3F
(64 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsAvestan
Major alphabetsPazand
Assigned61 code points
Unused3 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.261 (+61)
Note: [1][2]

Avestan is a Unicode block containing characters devised for recording the Zoroastrian religious texts, Avesta, and was used to write the Middle Persian, or Pazand language.


History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
L2/98-070 Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold, 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), Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20 
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), Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode 
L2/02-009 Bunz, Carl-Martin (2001-11-23), 2nd Iranian Meeting Report 
L2/02-449 N2556 Everson, Michael (2002-12-04), Revised proposal to encode the Avestan and Pahlavi script in the UCS 
L2/06-335 N3178 Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh (2006-10-20), Proposal to encode the Avestan script in the BMP of the UCS 
L2/06-375 Gippert, Jost (2006-11-06), Note from Jost Gippert to Deborah Anderson in support of Avestan 
L2/07-015 Moore, Lisa (2007-02-08), UTC #110 Minutes 
L2/07-006R N3197R Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh (2007-03-22), Revised proposal to encode the Avestan script in the SMP of the UCS 
L2/07-268 N3253 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27 
L2/07-304 N3336 Anderson, Deborah (2007-09-13), Comments on the Avestan Separation Point 
L2/08-088 N3443 Anderson, Deborah (2008-01-28), Additional Comments on the Avestan Separation Point 
L2/08-173 N3444 Anderson, Deborah (2008-04-13), Expert Feedback on AVESTAN SEPARATION POINT 
L2/08-155 Anderson, Deborah (2008-04-14), Expert Feedback on Avestan Separation Point by Profs. Skjaervo, Jamison, and Watkins 
  1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  1. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26. 
  2. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26. 



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