Ancient Symbols (Unicode block)

Short description: Unicode character block

Ancient Symbols

Range| U+10190..U+101CF
(64 code points)
Plane| SMP
Scripts| Greek (1 char.)
Common (13 char.)
Symbol sets| Roman weights and currency
Assigned| 14 code points
Unused| 50 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.1| 12 (+12)
7.0| 13 (+1)
13.0| 14 (+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
L2/06-108 |  | Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), UTC #107 Minutes
L2/06-234 |  | Perry, David J. (2006-07-30), Proposal to Add Ancient Roman Weights and Monetary Signs to UCS
| N3138 | Perry, David J. (2006-07-30), Proposal to Add Ancient Roman Weights and Monetary Signs to UCS
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
U+1019B | 1 | L2/06-269 | N3218 | Perry, David J. (2006-08-01), Proposal to Add Additional Ancient Roman Characters to UCS
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
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
L2/12-007 |  | Moore, Lisa (2012-02-14), UTC #130 / L2 #227 Minutes
| N4253 (pdf, doc) |  Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 59, 2012-09-12
L2/19-173 |  | Anderson, Deborah (2019-04-29), Recommendations to UTC #159 April-May 2019 on Script Proposals
| N5122 |  Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 68, 2019-12-31

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

## See also

* Greek script in Unicode

## 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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