Shorthand Format Controls

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Short description: Unicode character block
Shorthand Format Controls
RangeU+1BCA0..U+1BCAF
(16 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCommon
Major alphabetsShorthands
Assigned4 code points
Unused12 reserved code points
Unicode version history
7.04 (+4)
Note: [1][2]

Shorthand Format Controls is a Unicode block containing four formatting characters for representing shorthands in Unicode.[3]

Block

Being invisible controls, they have no visible glyph but can have a representation.

  • U+1BCA0 𛲠 SHORTHAND FORMAT LETTER OVERLAP (HTML 𛲠)[4]
  • U+1BCA1 𛲡 SHORTHAND FORMAT CONTINUING OVERLAP (HTML 𛲡)[5]
  • U+1BCA2 𛲢 SHORTHAND FORMAT DOWN STEP (HTML 𛲢)[6]
Romanian affix -tsion-
Sloan contracted ending oo/o + ZWSP
  • U+1BCA3 𛲣 SHORTHAND FORMAT UP STEP (HTML 𛲣)[7]
Sloan contracted ending uh/au/aui + ZWSP

History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
7.0 U+1BCA0..1BCA3 4 L2/09-184 Anderson, Van (2009-05-03), Proposal to include Chinook Pipa script in UCS 
L2/09-184.1 Anderson, Van (2009-05-03), Proposal to include Chinook Pipa script in UCS [zip format of the HTML version] 
L2/09-283 Anderson, Van (2009-07-24), Proposal to include Chinook Pipa script in UCS 
L2/09-364 Anderson, Van (2009-10-06), Proposal to Include Duployan Shorthands and Chinook Script in UCS 
L2/09-364.1 Anderson, Van (2009-10-06), Proposal to Include Duployan Shorthands and Chinook Script in UCS [zip format of the HTML version] 
L2/09-364.2 Anderson, Van (2009-10-26), Proposal to Include Duployan Shorthands and Chinook Script in UCS [fonts and data] 
L2/10-027 Anderson, Van (2010-01-25), Duployan Charts 
L2/10-028 Anderson, Van (2010-01-25), Duployan Documentation 
L2/10-026 Anderson, Van (2010-01-31), Proposal to include Duployan Shorthands and Chinook script in UCS 
L2/10-159 Anderson, Van (2010-05-03), Proposal to include Duployan Shorthands and Chinook script in UCS 
L2/10-201 Anderson, Van (2010-05-12), Guide to Duployan Shorthands and Stenographies 
L2/10-202 Anderson, Van (2010-05-12), Duployan Texts 
L2/10-272R2 N3895 Anderson, Van (2010-08-12), Proposal to include Duployan Shorthands and Chinook script and Shorthand Format Controls in UCS 
L2/10-221 Moore, Lisa (2010-08-23), UTC #124 / L2 #221 Minutes 
L2/10-352 N3922 Anderson, Van (2010-09-21), Response to Irish NB comments N3908 
L2/10-364 N3931 Everson, Michael (2010-10-03), Further discussion on ordering and the proposed Duployan script 
L2/10-383 N3940 Anderson, Van (2010-10-05), Quick response to Irish NB comments N3931 
L2/11-215 N4088 Anderson, Van; Everson, Michael (2011-05-30), Resolving chart and collation order for the Duployan script 
L2/11-303 Anderson, Van (2011-07-19), Proposal to include Duployan Shorthands and Chinook script and Shorthand Format Controls in UCS, as approved by WG2 
N4103 Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 
L2/14-100 Moore, Lisa (2014-05-13), UTC #139 Minutes 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

References