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Manichaean (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Manichaean
RangeU+10AC0..U+10AFF
(64 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsManichaean
Major alphabetsSogdian, Parthian, Fars
Assigned51 code points
Unused13 reserved code points
Unicode version history
7.051 (+51)
Note: [1][2]

Manichaean is a Unicode block containing characters historically used for writing Sogdian, Parthian, and the dialects of Fars.[3]

Block

The block has five variation sequences defined for standardized variants.[4] They use U+FE00 VARIATION SELECTOR-1 (VS1) to denote alternate letter forms:[3]

Variation sequences for alternate forms
U+ 10AC5 10AC6 10AD6 10AD7 10AE1
base code point 𐫅 𐫆 𐫖 𐫗 𐫡
base + VS01 𐫅︀ 𐫆︀ 𐫖︀ 𐫗︀ 𐫡︀

History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
7.0 U+10AC0..10AE6, 10AEB..10AF6 51 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 
L2/01-007 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 
L2/04-292 McGowan, Rick (2004-07-20), Manichaean Joining Types and Shaping Behavior 
L2/08-025 N3378 Everson, Michael (2008-01-28), Revised proposal to encode the Manichaean script in the UCS 
L2/08-271R2 N3486R2 Everson, Michael; Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2008-11-01), Proposal for encoding the Manichaean script in the SMP of the UCS 
L2/09-284 Pournader, Roozbeh; Anderson, Deborah (2009-08-06), Specifying Joining Behavior for Manichaean Aleph 
L2/09-186 N3644 Everson, Michael; Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2009-09-30), Revised proposal for encoding the Manichaean script in the SMP of the UCS 
L2/11-123R N4029R Everson, Michael; Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond; Pournader, Roozbeh; Afshar, Shervin (2011-05-10), Second revised proposal for encoding the Manichaean script in the SMP of the UCS 
L2/11-116 Moore, Lisa (2011-05-17), UTC #127 / L2 #224 Minutes 
N4103 Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 
L2/14-026 Moore, Lisa (2014-02-17), UTC #138 Minutes 
N4553 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA 
  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. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Everson, Michael; Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond; Pournader, Roozbeh; Afshar, Shervin (2011-05-10). "N4029R: Second revised proposal for encoding the Manichaean script in the SMP of the UCS". Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2. https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11123r-n4029r-manichaean.pdf. 
  4. ↑ "Unicode Character Database: Standardized Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium. https://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/StandardizedVariants.txt. 



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