Samaritan (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Samaritan
RangeU+0800..U+083F
(64 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsSamaritan
Major alphabetsSamaritan Hebrew
Samaritan Aramaic
Assigned61 code points
Unused3 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.261 (+61)
Note: [1][2]

Samaritan is a Unicode block containing characters used for writing Samaritan Hebrew and Aramaic.


History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
5.2 U+0800..082D, 0830..083E 61 L2/03-206 Constable, Peter (2003-06-13), Proposal to encode Samaritan Pentateuch Sign 
L2/04-159 N2758 Keown, Elaine (2004-05-12), Proposal to add Samaritan Pointing to ISO 10646 
N3353 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27 
L2/07-258 Whistler, Ken (2007-08-02), Middle Dots and Don'ts 
L2/07-260 Freytag, Asmus (2007-08-05), Non-blank spaces 
L2/07-225 Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), UTC #112 Minutes 
L2/08-024 N3377 Everson, Michael (2008-01-25), Proposal to add the Samaritan alphabet to the BMP of the UCS 
L2/08-003 Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), UTC #114 Minutes 
L2/08-318 N3453 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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