Georgian (Unicode block)

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See also: Georgian Supplement (Unicode block) and Georgian Extended (Unicode block)
Short description: Unicode character block
Georgian
RangeU+10A0..U+10FF
(96 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsGeorgian (87 char.)
Common (1 char.)
Major alphabetsMkhedruli
Asomtavruli
Assigned88 code points
Unused8 reserved code points
Unicode version history
1.0.078 (+78)
3.280 (+2)
4.183 (+3)
6.188 (+5)
Note: [1][2]

Georgian is a Unicode block containing the Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli Georgian characters used to write Modern Georgian, Svan, and Mingrelian languages. Another lower case, Nuskhuri, is encoded in a separate Georgian Supplement block, which is used with the Asomtavruli to write the ecclesiastical Khutsuri Georgian script.

Asomtavruli capitals, known as Mtavruli, are included in a separate Georgian Extended block, but the capital letters are not used for title casing.[3]

Block

History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count UTC ID L2 ID WG2 ID Document
1.0.0 U+10A0..10C5, 10D0..10F6, 10FB 78 (to be determined)
L2/99-176R Moore, Lisa (1999-11-04), Minutes from the joint UTC/L2 meeting in Seattle, June 8-10, 1999 
3.2 U+10F7..10F8 2 L2/00-404 Tarkhan-Mouravi, David (2000-10-30), Proposal for Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri, and Mkhedruli Georgian 
L2/01-006 Moore, Lisa (2000-12-22), Reply to Georgian State Department of Information Technology 
L2/01-046 Tarkhan-Mouravi, David (2001-01-22), Letter from the Georgian State department for Information Technology 
L2/01-047 Megrelian and Svan Examples, 2001-01-22 
L2/01-048 Proposal summary form for addition of 3 letters to the Georgian Mkhedruli block, 2001-01-22 
L2/01-145 N2346R Moore, Lisa (2001-04-03), Proposal to encode 2 Georgian characters in the UCS 
L2/01-166 Moore, Lisa (2001-04-16), Reply to Georgian State Department of Information Technology 
L2/01-012R Moore, Lisa (2001-05-21), Minutes UTC #86 in Mountain View, Jan 2001 
L2/01-227 Whistler, Ken (2001-05-22), WG2 Consent Docket for UTC #87 
L2/01-184R Moore, Lisa (2001-06-18), Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting 
L2/01-344 N2353 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-09-09), Minutes from SC2/WG2 meeting #40 -- Mountain View, April 2001 
4.1 U+10F9..10FA, 10FC 3 L2/99-082 N1962 Everson, Michael (1999-02-26), Optimizing Georgian representation in the BMP of the UCS 
L2/00-115R2 Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83 
L2/03-230R2 N2608R2 Everson, Michael (2003-09-04), Proposal to add Georgian and other characters to the BMP of the UCS 
6.1 U+10C7, 10CD, 10FD..10FF 5 L2/10-072 N3775 Everson, Michael (2010-03-09), Proposal for encoding Georgian and Nuskhuri letters for Ossetian and Abkhaz 
L2/10-108 Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes 
N3803 (pdf, doc) Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 56, 2010-09-24 
  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. "Unicode® 11.0.0". Unicode Consortium. June 5, 2018. https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode11.0.0/. Retrieved 8 June 2018.