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Meroitic Hieroglyphs (Unicode block)

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See also: Meroitic Cursive (Unicode block)
Short description: Unicode character block
Meroitic Hieroglyphs
RangeU+10980..U+1099F
(32 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsMeroitic Hieroglyphs
Major alphabetsMeroitic
Assigned32 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
6.132 (+32)
Note: [1][2]

Meroitic Hieroglyphs is a Unicode block formal hieroglyphic containing characters for writing the Meroitic language.[3]


History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Meroitic Hieroglyphs 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 
L2/99-222 N2098 Wolf, Pawel (1999-07-13), Report on the standardization of a Meroitic sign list for Unicode 
N2134 Everson, Michael (1999-10-02), Response to comments on the question of encoding Meroitic in the UCS (N2098) 
L2/08-269 N3484 Everson, Michael (2008-08-04), Preliminary proposal for encoding the Meroitic script in the SMP of the UCS 
L2/09-188R2 N3646R2 Everson, Michael (2009-05-13), Proposal for encoding the Meroitic script in the SMP of the UCS 
L2/09-104 Moore, Lisa (2009-05-20), UTC #119 / L2 #216 Minutes 
L2/09-250 N3665 Everson, Michael (2009-07-29), Proposal for encoding the Meroitic Hieroglyphic and the Meroitic Cursive scripts in the SMP of the UCS 
L2/09-225R Moore, Lisa (2009-08-17), UTC #120 / L2 #217 Minutes 
N3703 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2010-04-13), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 55, Tokyo 2009-10-26/30 
  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. ↑ Everson, Michael (2009-07-29). "N3665: Proposal for encoding the Meroitic Hieroglyphic and the Meroitic Cursive scripts in the SMP of the UCS". Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2. https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09250-n3665-meroitic.pdf. 



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