Avestan (Unicode block)

Short description: Unicode character block

Avestan

Range| U+10B00..U+10B3F
(64 code points)
Plane| SMP
Scripts| Avestan
Major alphabets| Pazand
Assigned| 61 code points
Unused| 3 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.2| 61 (+61)
Note: [1][2]

Avestan is a Unicode block containing characters devised for recording the Zoroastrian religious texts, Avesta, and was used to write the Middle Persian, or Pazand language.

## History

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

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

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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
L2/00-128 |  | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode
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
L2/02-449 | N2556 | Everson, Michael (2002-12-04), Revised proposal to encode the Avestan and Pahlavi script in the UCS
L2/06-335 | N3178 | Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh (2006-10-20), Proposal to encode the Avestan script in the BMP of the UCS
L2/06-375 |  | Gippert, Jost (2006-11-06), Note from Jost Gippert to Deborah Anderson in support of Avestan
L2/07-015 |  | Moore, Lisa (2007-02-08), UTC #110 Minutes
L2/07-006R | N3197R | Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh (2007-03-22), Revised proposal to encode the Avestan script in the SMP of the UCS
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
L2/07-304 | N3336 | Anderson, Deborah (2007-09-13), Comments on the Avestan Separation Point
L2/08-088 | N3443 | Anderson, Deborah (2008-01-28), Additional Comments on the Avestan Separation Point
L2/08-173 | N3444 | Anderson, Deborah (2008-04-13), Expert Feedback on AVESTAN SEPARATION POINT
L2/08-155 |  | Anderson, Deborah (2008-04-14), Expert Feedback on Avestan Separation Point by Profs. Skjaervo, Jamison, and Watkins

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.

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