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Phonetic Extensions

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For a list of all phonetic characters encoded in Unicode, see Phonetic symbols in Unicode.
Short description: Unicode character block
Phonetic Extensions
RangeU+1D00..U+1D7F
(128 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCyrillic (2 char.)
Greek (15 char.)
Latin (111 char.)
Major alphabetsUPA
Dictionary usage
Assigned128 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.0108 (+108)
4.1128 (+20)
Note: [1][2]

Phonetic Extensions is a Unicode block containing phonetic characters used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, Old Irish phonetic notation, the Oxford English Dictionary and American dictionaries, and Americanist and Russianist phonetic notations. Its character set is continued in the following Unicode block, Phonetic Extensions Supplement.

Block

Template:Unicode chart Phonetic Extensions

History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
L2/02-192 Everson, Michael (2002-05-02), Everson's Reply on UPA 
N2442 Everson, Michael; Kolehmainen, Erkki I.; Ruppel, Klaas; Trosterud, Trond (2002-05-21), Justification for placing the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet in the BMP 
L2/02-291 Whistler, Ken (2002-05-31), WG2 report from Dublin 
L2/02-292 Whistler, Ken (2002-06-03), Early look at WG2 consent docket 
L2/02-166R2 Moore, Lisa (2002-08-09), UTC #91 Minutes 
L2/02-253 Moore, Lisa (2002-10-21), UTC #92 Minutes 
L2/11-043 Freytag, Asmus; Karlsson, Kent (2011-02-02), Proposal to correct mistakes and inconsistencies in certain property assignments for super and subscripted letters 
L2/11-016 Moore, Lisa (2011-02-15), UTC #126 / L2 #223 Minutes 
L2/11-160 PRI #181 Changing General Category of Twelve Characters, 2011-05-02 
U+1D6B 1 L2/02-421 N2514 Everson, Michael (2002-11-10), Proposal to encode one Latin letter in the UCS 
4.1 U+1D6C..1D76 11 L2/03-174R2 N2632 Constable, Peter (2003-09-30), Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Middle Tilde in the UCS 
L2/03-240R3 Moore, Lisa (2003-10-21), UTC #96 Minutes 
L2/04-132 N2740 Constable, Peter (2004-04-19), Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS 
U+1D77..1D78 2 L2/99-082 N1962 Everson, Michael (1999-02-26), Optimizing Georgian representation in the BMP of the UCS 
L2/00-115R2 Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83 
L2/03-230R2 N2608R2 Everson, Michael (2003-09-04), Proposal to add Georgian and other characters to the BMP of the UCS 
U+1D79 1 L2/03-331 N2641 Everson, Michael (2003-10-05), Proposal to encode one Irish phonetic letter in the UCS 
L2/03-136 Moore, Lisa (2003-08-18), UTC #95 Minutes 
L2/03-334 N2645 Davis, Mark (2003-10-08), Latin Small Letter th with Strikethrough 
L2/03-359 N2656 Freytag, Asmus (2003-10-15), Phonetic symbols used in Dictionaries 
L2/03-356R2 Moore, Lisa (2003-10-22), UTC #97 Minutes 
U+1D7B..1D7F 5 L2/03-170 Constable, Peter (2003-05-30), Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Retroflex Hook in the UCS 
L2/03-169R Constable, Peter (2003-06-06), Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Palatal Hook in the UCS 
L2/03-180 Constable, Peter (2003-06-07), Proposal to Encode Additional Phonetic Modifier Letters in the UCS 
L2/03-190R Constable, Peter (2003-06-08), Proposal to Encode Additional Phonetic Symbols in the UCS 
L2/03-136 Moore, Lisa (2003-08-18), UTC #95 Minutes 
L2/04-044 Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Revised Proposal to Encode Additional Phonetic Modifier Letters in the UCS 
L2/04-045 Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Revised Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Palatal Hook in the UCS 
L2/04-046 Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Revised Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Retroflex Hook in the UCS 
L2/04-047 Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Revised Proposal to Encode Additional Phonetic Symbols in the UCS 
L2/04-132 N2740 Constable, Peter (2004-04-19), Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS 
L2/04-144 Hallissy, Bob (2004-04-27), Soft-dotted characters in the pipeline 
L2/04-003R Moore, Lisa (2004-05-17), UTC #98 Minutes 
  1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

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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