Coptic (Unicode block)

See also: Greek and Coptic (Unicode block) and Coptic Epact Numbers (Unicode block)

Short description: Unicode character block

Coptic

Range| U+2C80..U+2CFF
(128 code points)
Plane| BMP
Scripts| Coptic
Major alphabets| Coptic
Assigned| 123 code points
Unused| 5 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.1| 114 (+114)
5.2| 121 (+7)
6.1| 123 (+2)
Note: [1][2]

Coptic is a Unicode block used with the Greek and Coptic block to write the Coptic language. Prior to version 4.1 of the Unicode Standard, the "Greek and Coptic" block was used exclusively to write Coptic text, but Greek and Coptic letter forms are contrastive in many scholarly works, necessitating their disunification. Any specifically Coptic letters in the Greek and Coptic block are not reproduced in the Coptic Unicode block.

## Block

## History

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

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

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L2/98-039 |  | Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1998-02-24), Preliminary Minutes - UTC #74 & L2 #171, Mountain View, CA - December 5, 1997
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
L2/02-051 |  | McGowan, Rick (2002-02-03), Coptic Disunification
L2/02-205 | N2444 | Everson, Michael; Mansour, Kamal (2002-05-08), Coptic supplementation in the BMP
L2/02-166R2 |  | Moore, Lisa (2002-08-09), UTC #91 Minutes
L2/03-208 |  | Constable, Peter (2003-06-13), Proposal to Encode Coptic Letter Eie for use in Textual Apparatus
L2/03-283 | N2611 | Everson, Michael (2003-08-24), Proposal to add the Coptic alphabet to the BMP of the UCS
L2/03-327 | N2636 | Everson, Michael (2003-10-01), Revised proposal to add the Coptic alphabet to the BMP of the UCS
L2/04-053 |  | Emmel, Stephen (2004-01-26), Changes to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N2636 and N2676 recommended by the International Association for Coptic Studies
L2/04-068 |  | Mansour, Kamal (2004-02-02), Coptic Comments
L2/04-130 | N2744 | Everson, Michael; Emmel, Stephen (2004-04-20), Revision of the Coptic block under ballot for the BMP of the UCS
| N2824 |  Updated charts for Coptic N2744, 2004-06-22
L2/07-118R2 |  | Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), UTC #111 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
6.1 | U+2CF2..2CF3 | 2 | L2/10-290 | N3873R | Everson, Michael; Emmel, Stephen; Richter, Siegfried G.; Pedro, Susana; Emiliano, António (2010-08-05), Proposal to add additional characters for Greek, Latin, and Coptic
L2/10-221 |  | Moore, Lisa (2010-08-23), UTC #124 / L2 #221 Minutes
L2/10-348 | N3912 | Everson, Michael; Emmel, Stephen; Richter, Siegfried G.; Pedro, Susana; Emiliano, António (2010-09-21), Revised proposal to add additional characters for Greek, Latin, and Coptic to the UCS
| N3903 (pdf, doc) |  Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31

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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