Cyrillic (Unicode block)
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Short description: Unicode character block
| Cyrillic | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+0400..U+04FF (256 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Cyrillic (254 characters) Inherited (2 characters) |
| Major alphabets | Russian Ukrainian Belarusian Bulgarian Serbian Macedonian Abkhaz |
| Assigned | 256 code points |
| Unused | 0 reserved code points |
| Source standards | ISO 8859-5 |
| Unicode version history | |
| 1.0.0 | 192 (+192) |
| 1.0.1 | 188 (-4) |
| 1.1 | 226 (+38) |
| 3.0 | 238 (+12) |
| 3.2 | 246 (+8) |
| 4.1 | 248 (+2) |
| 5.0 | 255 (+7) |
| 5.1 | 256 (+1) |
| Note: Four characters (two upper and lower case letter pairs) were removed from the Cyrillic block in version 1.0.1 during the process of unifying with ISO 10646.[1][2][3] | |
Cyrillic is a Unicode block containing the characters used to write the most widely used languages with a Cyrillic orthography. The core of the block is based on the ISO 8859-5 standard, with additions for minority languages and historic orthographies.
Block
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Cyrillic block:
| Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | UTC ID | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | U+0401..040C, 040E..044F, 0451..045C, 045E..0486, 0490..04C4, 04C7..04C8, 04CB..04CC | 188 | (to be determined) | |||
| L2/00-164 | Hudson, John (2000-05-01), Rendering Serbian italic forms with OpenType | |||||
| L2/00-219 | Everson, Michael (2000-07-09), The case of the Cyrillic letter PALOCHKA | |||||
| L2/05-287 | Kryukov, Alexey (2005-10-02), U+047C/U+047D CYRILLIC OMEGA WITH TITLO | |||||
| L2/05-279 | Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), UTC #105 Minutes | |||||
| L2/06-011 | Cleminson, Ralph (2006-01-10), Cyrillic Omega with Titlo | |||||
| L2/06-033 | McGowan, Rick (2006-01-30), PRI #83: Changing Glyph for U+047C/U+047D Cyrillic Omega with Titlo | |||||
| L2/06-192 | N3118 | Anderson, Deborah (2006-05-08), Request to Change Glyphs for U+0485 and U+0486 | ||||
| L2/06-108 | Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), UTC #107 Minutes, "Change the glyphs for U+0485 COMBINING CYRILLIC DASIA PNEUMATA and U+0486 COMBINING CYRILLIC PSILI PNEUMATA" | |||||
| L2/06-292 | Anderson, Deborah (2006-08-07), Re: Public Review Issue #83: Glyph change for Cyrillic Omega with Titlo | |||||
| L2/06-231 | Moore, Lisa (2006-08-17), UTC #108 Minutes | |||||
| N3153 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-02-16), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 49 AIST, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan; 2006-09-25/29, "Correct the glyphs for 0485 COMBINING CYRILLIC DASIA PNEUMATA and 0486 COMBINING CYRILLIC PSILI PNEUMATA based on document N3118." | |||||
| L2/06-329 | Cleminson, Ralph (2006-10-11), Histoire d'O (omega with titlo) | |||||
| L2/06-357 | N3184 | Everson, Michael; Birnbaum, David; Cleminson, Ralph; Derzhanski, Ivan; Dorosh, Vladislav; Kryukov, Alexey; Paliga, Sorin (2006-10-30), On CYRILLIC LETTER OMEGA WITH TITLO and on CYRILLIC LETTER UK | ||||
| L2/06-389 | Birnbaum, David (2006-11-13), Diacritics for Early Cyrillic | |||||
| L2/06-324R2 | Moore, Lisa (2006-11-29), UTC #109 Minutes | |||||
| 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 | ||||
| L2/08-144 | N3435R | Everson, Michael; Priest, Lorna (2008-04-11), Proposal to encode two Cyrillic characters for Abkhaz | ||||
| L2/08-318 | N3453 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52, "Change the glyphs for 04A8, 04A9, 04BE and 04BF (Abkhasian letters) to those shown in document N3435 to reflect modern Abkhaz orthography preference." | ||||
| L2/08-161R2 | Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), UTC #115 Minutes, "Create a glyph erratum for the 4 changed Abkhaz glyphs..." | |||||
| L2/15-014 | Andreev, Aleksandr; Shardt, Yuri; Simmons, Nikita (2015-01-26), Proposal to Change Annotations on Some Cyrillic Characters | |||||
| L2/15-182 | Whistler, Ken (2015-07-20), Suggested Responses to Suggestions re Cyrillic in L2/15-014 | |||||
| L2/15-187 | Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), UTC #144 Minutes, "Add the Script_Extension value of "Glagolitic" to U+0484 for Unicode 9.0." | |||||
| 1.1 | U+04D0..04EB, 04EE..04F5, 04F8..04F9 | 38 | (to be determined) | |||
| 3.0 | U+0400, 040D, 0450, 045D | 4 | N418 | Yugoslav Position for SC2/ DP 10646 | ||
| N1407 | Kardalev, Ratislav (1996-05-15), Reconsideration of the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N 1323 document | |||||
| N1353 | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-06-25), Draft minutes of WG2 Copenhagen Meeting # 30 | |||||
| N1453 | Ksar, Mike; Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1996-12-06), WG 2 Minutes - Quebec Meeting 31 | |||||
| UTC/1996-xxx | Greenfield, Steve (1996-12-13), Action Items & Resolutions Generated at UTC #70 | |||||
| L2/98-004R | N1681 | Text of ISO 10646 – AMD 18 for PDAM registration and FPDAM ballot, 1997-12-22 | ||||
| L2/98-318 | N1894 | Revised text of 10646-1/FPDAM 18, AMENDMENT 18: Symbols and Others, 1998-10-22 | ||||
| U+0488..0489 | 2 | L2/98-211 | N1744 | Everson, Michael (1998-05-25), Additional Cyrillic characters for the UCS | ||
| L2/98-301 | N1847 | Everson, Michael (1998-09-12), Responses to NCITS/L2 and Unicode Consortium comments on numerous proposals | ||||
| L2/98-372 | N1884R2 (pdf, doc) | Whistler, Ken (1998-09-22), Additional Characters for the UCS | ||||
| L2/98-329 | N1920 | Combined PDAM registration and consideration ballot on WD for ISO/IEC 10646-1/Amd. 30, AMENDMENT 30: Additional Latin and other characters, 1998-10-28 | ||||
| L2/99-010 | N1903 (pdf, html, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25 | ||||
| L2/01-050 | N2253 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000 | ||||
| U+048C..048D | 2 | L2/99-077.1 | N1975 | Irish Comments on SC 2 N 3210, 1999-01-20 | ||
| L2/99-232 | N2003 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1999-08-03), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 36, Fukuoka, Japan, 1999-03-09--15 | ||||
| U+048E..048F, 04EC..04ED | 4 | L2/97-146 | N1590 | Trosterud, Trond (1997-06-09), Proposal to add 10 Cyrillic Sámi characters to ISO/IEC 10646 | ||
| L2/97-288 | N1603 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997 | ||||
| L2/98-211 | N1744 | Everson, Michael (1998-05-25), Additional Cyrillic characters for the UCS | ||||
| L2/98-281R (pdf, html) | Aliprand, Joan (1998-07-31), Unconfirmed Minutes – UTC #77 & NCITS Subgroup L2 # 174 JOINT MEETING, Redmond, WA -- July 29-31, 1998 | |||||
| L2/98-292R (pdf, html, Figure 1) | Comments on proposals to add characters from ISO standards developed by ISO/TC 46/SC 4, 1998-08-19 | |||||
| L2/98-292 | N1840 | Comments on proposals to add characters from ISO standards developed by ISO/TC 46/SC 4, 1998-08-25 | ||||
| L2/98-301 | N1847 | Everson, Michael (1998-09-12), Responses to NCITS/L2 and Unicode Consortium comments on numerous proposals | ||||
| L2/98-372 | N1884R2 (pdf, doc) | Whistler, Ken (1998-09-22), Additional Characters for the UCS | ||||
| L2/98-329 | N1920 | Combined PDAM registration and consideration ballot on WD for ISO/IEC 10646-1/Amd. 30, AMENDMENT 30: Additional Latin and other characters, 1998-10-28 | ||||
| L2/99-010 | N1903 (pdf, html, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25 | ||||
| L2/01-050 | N2253 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000 | ||||
| 3.2 | U+048A..048B, 04C5..04C6, 04C9..04CA, 04CD..04CE | 8 | L2/98-258 | N1813 | Trosterud, Trond (1997-06-09), Proposal to add 10 Cyrillic Sámi characters to ISO/IEC 10646 | |
| L2/98-276 | Kuruch, Rimma (1998-07-20), Norwegian comments on Cyrillic Sámi | |||||
| L2/98-329 | N1920 | Combined PDAM registration and consideration ballot on WD for ISO/IEC 10646-1/Amd. 30, AMENDMENT 30: Additional Latin and other characters, 1998-10-28 | ||||
| L2/99-010 | N1903 (pdf, html, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25 | ||||
| L2/99-255 | N2069 | Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3309, ISO 10646-1/FPDAM 30 - Additional Latin and other characters, 1999-08-19 | ||||
| L2/00-082 | N2173 | Everson, Michael (2000-03-03), Proposal to add 8 Cyrillic Sámi characters to ISO/IEC 10646 | ||||
| L2/00-234 | N2203 (rtf, txt) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24 | ||||
| L2/00-115R2 | Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83 | |||||
| 4.1 | U+04F6..04F7 | 2 | L2/02-452 | N2560 | Brase, Jim; Constable, Peter (2002-12-06), Proposal for Encoding Additional Cyrillic Characters for Siberian Yupik | |
| N2942 | Freytag, Asmus; Whistler, Ken (2005-08-12), Proposal to add nine lowercase characters | |||||
| L2/05-108R | Moore, Lisa (2005-08-26), UTC #103 Minutes | |||||
| N2953 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15 | |||||
| U+04FA..04FF | 6 | L2/05-080R2 | N2933 | Priest, Lorna (2005-08-02), Proposal to Encode Additional Cyrillic Characters (rev 2005/08/18) | ||
| L2/05-215 | Anderson, Deborah (2005-08-03), Feedback on Cyrillic letters EL WITH HOOK and HA WITH HOOK (L2/05-080) | |||||
| L2/05-230 | Priest, Lorna (2005-08-11), Nameslist annotations for new Cyrillic letters | |||||
| L2/05-180 | Moore, Lisa (2005-08-17), UTC #104 Minutes | |||||
| N2953 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15 | |||||
| 5.1 | U+0487 | 1 | L2/06-042 | Cleminson, Ralph (2006-01-26), Proposal for additional Cyrillic characters | ||
| L2/06-181 | Anderson, Deborah (2006-05-08), Responses to the UTC regarding L2/06-042, Proposal for Additional Cyrillic Characters | |||||
| L2/06-359 | Cleminson, Ralph (2006-10-31), Proposal for additional Cyrillic characters | |||||
| L2/07-003 | N3194 | Everson, Michael; Birnbaum, David; Cleminson, Ralph; Derzhanski, Ivan; Dorosh, Vladislav; Kryukov, Alexey; Paliga, Sorin; Ruppel, Klaas (2007-01-12), Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS | ||||
| L2/07-055 | Cleminson, Ralph (2007-01-19), Comments on Additional Cyrillic Characters (L2/07-003 = WG2 N3194) | |||||
| L2/07-015 | Moore, Lisa (2007-02-08), UTC #110 Minutes | |||||
| 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 | ||||
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References
- ↑ "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum". The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode1.0.0/Notice.pdf. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
- ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
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