Psalter Pahlavi (Unicode block)

Summary

Psalter Pahlavi is a Unicode block containing characters for writing Middle Persian.[3] The script derives its name from the "Pahlavi Psalter", a 6th- or 7th-century translation of a Syriac book of psalms.

Psalter Pahlavi
RangeU+10B80..U+10BAF
(48 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsPsalter Pahlavi
Major alphabetsPsalter Pahlavi
Assigned29 code points
Unused19 reserved code points
Unicode version history
7.0 (2014)29 (+29)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]
Psalter Pahlavi[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+10B8x 𐮀 𐮁 𐮂 𐮃 𐮄 𐮅 𐮆 𐮇 𐮈 𐮉 𐮊 𐮋 𐮌 𐮍 𐮎 𐮏
U+10B9x 𐮐 𐮑 𐮙 𐮚 𐮛 𐮜
U+10BAx 𐮩 𐮪 𐮫 𐮬 𐮭 𐮮 𐮯
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 Psalter Pahlavi block:

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
7.0 U+10B80..10B91, 10B99..10B9C, 10BA9..10BAF 29 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), "Pahlavi (Book-Pahlavi)", Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode
L2/02-450 Gippert, Jost (2002-11-29), 3rd Iranian Unicode Conference: Conference material (29-11-2002)
L2/02-449 N2556 Everson, Michael (2002-12-04), Revised proposal to encode the Avestan and Pahlavi script in the UCS
L2/07-102 N3241 Everson, Michael (2007-04-12), Proposal for encoding the Parthian, Inscriptional Pahlavi, and Psalter Pahlavi scripts in the BMP of the UCS
N3353 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), "M51.25", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
L2/07-268 N3253 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "8.17", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
L2/07-225 Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), "C.8", UTC #112 Minutes
L2/07-207R N3286R Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh (2007-08-24), Proposal for encoding the Inscriptional Parthian, Inscriptional Pahlavi, and Psalter Pahlavi scripts in the SMP of the UCS
L2/11-147 N4040 Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh (2011-05-06), Proposal for encoding the Psalter Pahlavi script in the SMP of the UCS
L2/11-261R2 Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), "C.3", UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes
L2/11-330 N4181 Anderson, Deborah (2011-11-04), Proposed Additions to ISO/IEC 10646
N4253 (pdf, doc) "M59.07", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 59, 2012-09-12
  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.
  3. ^ Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh (2011-05-06). "N4040: Proposal for encoding the Psalter Pahlavi script in the SMP of the UCS" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 and UTC. Retrieved 2014-08-19.