Ancient Symbols

Short description: Unicode character block

Ancient Symbols

Range| U+10190..U+101CF
(64 code points)
Plane| SMP
Scripts| Greek (1 char.)
Common (12 char.)
Symbol sets| Roman weights and currency
Assigned| 13 code points
Unused| 51 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.1| 12 (+12)
7.0| 13 (+1)
Note: [1][2]

Ancient Symbols is a Unicode block containing Roman characters for currency, weights, and measures.

## Contents

* 1 Block
* 2 History
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## Block

## History

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

Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document

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5.1 | U+10190..1019A | 11 | L2/06-173 |  | Perry, David J. (2006-05-05), Proposal to Add Ancient Roman Weights and Monetary Signs to UCS
L2/06-234 |  | Perry, David J. (2006-07-30), Proposal to Add Ancient Roman Weights and Monetary Signs to UCS
U+1019B | 1 | L2/06-269 | N3218 | Perry, David J. (2006-08-01), Proposal to Add Additional Ancient Roman Characters to UCS
7.0 | U+101A0 | 1 | L2/12-034 | N4194 | Sosin, Joshua; Heilporn, Paul; Hoogendijk, Cisca; Mastronarde, Donald; Hickey, Todd; Anderson, Deborah (2012-01-23), Proposal for three Greek papyrological characters

1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

## See also

* Greek alphabet in Unicode

## References

1. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
2. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2016-07-09.

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