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Carian (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Carian
RangeU+102A0..U+102DF
(64 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCarian
Major alphabetsCarian
Assigned49 code points
Unused15 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.149 (+49)
Note: [1][2]

Carian is a Unicode block containing the Masson set and four additional characters for writing the ancient Carian language in Caria and Egypt, where the Carians served as mercenaries.


History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
5.1 U+102A0..102D0 49 L2/00-128 Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode 
L2/00-153 Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-04-26), Further comments on historic scripts 
L2/05-241 Everson, Michael (2005-08-31), Old Anatolian scripts 
L2/05-386 N3020R Everson, Michael (2006-01-12), Proposal to encode the Carian script in the SMP of the UCS 
L2/06-008R2 Moore, Lisa (2006-02-13), UTC #106 Minutes 
N2953 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15 
N3103 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-08-25), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 48, Mountain View, CA, USA; 2006-04-24/27 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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