Manichaean (Unicode block)

Short description: Unicode character block

Manichaean

Range| U+10AC0..U+10AFF
(64 code points)
Plane| SMP
Scripts| Manichaean
Major alphabets| Sogdian, Parthian, Fars
Assigned| 51 code points
Unused| 13 reserved code points
Unicode version history
7.0| 51 (+51)
Note: [1][2]

Manichaean is a Unicode block containing characters historically used for writing Sogdian, Parthian, and the dialects of Fars.[3]

## Block

The block has five variation sequences defined for standardized variants.[4] They use U+FE00 VARIATION SELECTOR-1 (VS1) to denote alternate letter forms:[3]

Variation sequences for alternate forms  U+ | 10AC5 | 10AC6 | 10AD6 | 10AD7 | 10AE1

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base code point | 𐫅 | 𐫆 | 𐫖 | 𐫗 | 𐫡
base + VS01 | 𐫅︀ | 𐫆︀ | 𐫖︀ | 𐫗︀ | 𐫡︀

## History

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

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

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7.0 | U+10AC0..10AE6, 10AEB..10AF6 | 51 | L2/00-128 |  | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode
L2/00-153 |  | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-04-26), Further comments on historic scripts
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
L2/04-292 |  | McGowan, Rick (2004-07-20), Manichaean Joining Types and Shaping Behavior
L2/08-025 | N3378 | Everson, Michael (2008-01-28), Revised proposal to encode the Manichaean script in the UCS
L2/08-271R2 | N3486R2 | Everson, Michael; Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2008-11-01), Proposal for encoding the Manichaean script in the SMP of the UCS
L2/09-284 |  | Pournader, Roozbeh; Anderson, Deborah (2009-08-06), Specifying Joining Behavior for Manichaean Aleph
L2/09-186 | N3644 | Everson, Michael; Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2009-09-30), Revised proposal for encoding the Manichaean script in the SMP of the UCS
L2/11-123R | N4029R | Everson, Michael; Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond; Pournader, Roozbeh; Afshar, Shervin (2011-05-10), Second revised proposal for encoding the Manichaean script in the SMP of the UCS
L2/11-116 |  | Moore, Lisa (2011-05-17), UTC #127 / L2 #224 Minutes
| N4103 |  Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
L2/14-026 |  | Moore, Lisa (2014-02-17), UTC #138 Minutes
| N4553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA

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.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Everson, Michael; Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond; Pournader, Roozbeh; Afshar, Shervin (2011-05-10). "N4029R: Second revised proposal for encoding the Manichaean script in the SMP of the UCS". Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2. https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11123r-n4029r-manichaean.pdf.
4. ↑ "Unicode Character Database: Standardized Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium. https://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/StandardizedVariants.txt.

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