Avestan (Unicode block)
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||
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References
- ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
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