Old Persian (Unicode block)

Summary

Old Persian is a Unicode block containing cuneiform characters for writing the Old Persian language of the Achaemenid Empire.

Old Persian
RangeU+103A0..U+103DF
(64 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsOld Persian
Major alphabetsOld Persian
Assigned50 code points
Unused14 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.1 (2005)50 (+50)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]
Old Persian[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+103Ax 𐎠 𐎡 𐎢 𐎣 𐎤 𐎥 𐎦 𐎧 𐎨 𐎩 𐎪 𐎫 𐎬 𐎭 𐎮 𐎯
U+103Bx 𐎰 𐎱 𐎲 𐎳 𐎴 𐎵 𐎶 𐎷 𐎸 𐎹 𐎺 𐎻 𐎼 𐎽 𐎾 𐎿
U+103Cx 𐏀 𐏁 𐏂 𐏃 𐏈 𐏉 𐏊 𐏋 𐏌 𐏍 𐏎 𐏏
U+103Dx 𐏐 𐏑 𐏒 𐏓 𐏔 𐏕
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History edit

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

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
4.1 U+103A0..103C3, 103C8..103D5 50 L2/97-269 N1639 Everson, Michael (1997-09-18), Proposal to encode Old Persian Cuneiform, Plane 1
L2/98-070 Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold, "3.A.4. item c. Old Persian Cuneiform", 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), "8.19", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20
L2/99-224 N2097, N2025-2 Röllig, W. (1999-07-23), Comments on proposals for the Universal Multiple-Octed Coded Character Set
N2133 Response to comments on the question of encoding Old Semitic scripts in the UCS (N2097), 1999-10-04
L2/00-010 N2103 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-01-05), "10.4", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark: 1999-09-13--16
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), "Old Persian cuneiform", Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode
L2/02-009 Bunz, Carl-Martin (2001-11-23), "Old Persian cuneiform script", 2nd Iranian Meeting Report
L2/03-097 N2545 Everson, Michael (2002-12-03), Revised proposal to encode the Old Persian script in the UCS
L2/03-149R N2583R Everson, Michael (2003-09-18), Final proposal to encode the Old Persian script in the UCS
L2/05-289 Whistler, Ken (2005-10-06), Cuneiform property inconsistencies
L2/05-279 Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), "B.14.1", UTC #105 Minutes
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References edit

  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.