Ethiopic (Unicode block)
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Short description: Unicode character block
| Ethiopic | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+1200..U+137F (384 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Ethiopic |
| Major alphabets | Geʽez |
| Assigned | 358 code points |
| Unused | 26 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 3.0 | 345 (+345) |
| 4.1 | 356 (+11) |
| 6.0 | 358 (+2) |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Ethiopic is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Geʽez, Tigrinya, Amharic, Tigre, Harari, Gurage and other Ethiosemitic languages and Central Cushitic languages or Agaw languages.
Block
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Ethiopic block:
| Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | UTC ID | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTC/1995-013 | Becker, Joe (1995-02-26), Proposal for Ethiopian Encoding in Unicode/10646 | |||||
| UTC/1995-055b | Yacob, Daniel (1995-10-06), Ethiopic Glyphs Variants | |||||
| X3L2/95-116 | N1270 | Ross, Hugh McGregor (1995-10-12), Proposal for Inclusion of Ethiopian-Eritrean Syllabary | ||||
| UTC/1995-055a | X3L2/95-134 | N1326 | Becker, Joe (1995-12-07), Conclusive Proposal for Encoding of Ethiopic Syllabary | |||
| UTC/1996-002 | Aliprand, Joan; Hart, Edwin; Greenfield, Steve (1996-03-05), UTC #67 Minutes | |||||
| N1372 | Ross, Hugh McGregor (1996-04-23), Update on N 1270 and N 1326 - Ethiopic | |||||
| UTC/1996-024 | X3L2/96-067 | Everson, Michael; Becker, Joe (1996-06-04), Michael Everson Response to SOAS | ||||
| UTC/1996-025 | Becker, Joe, Follow up response to WG2 N1326 re Encoding of Ethiopic Syllabary | |||||
| N1353 | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-06-25), Draft minutes of WG2 Copenhagen Meeting # 30 | |||||
| N1420 | Becker, Joe (1996-07-27), Conclusive Proposal for Encoding of Ethiopic Syllabary, Update | |||||
| X3L2/96-119 | N1485 | Adams, Glenn (1996-12-01), Proposed Draft Amendment No. 10 to ISO/IEC 10646-1 | ||||
| N1453 | Ksar, Mike; Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1996-12-06), WG 2 Minutes - Quebec Meeting 31 | |||||
| X3L2/96-123 | Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1996-12-18), Preliminary Minutes - UTC #71 & X3L2 #168 ad hoc meeting, San Diego - December 5-6, 1996 | |||||
| L2/97-003 | Paterson, Bruce (1997-01-28), Combined PDAM registration and ballot for FPDAM 10: Ethiopic script | |||||
| N1594 | Summary of Voting/Table of Replies, Amendment 10 – Ethiopic, 1997-06-17 | |||||
| L2/97-159 | N1614 | Resolving Japanese Comments on pDAM 10 [Ethiopic], 1997-07-01 | ||||
| L2/97-288 | N1603 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June - 4 July 1997 | ||||
| L2/97-276 | N1630 | Report on JTC1/SC2 letter ballot on FPDAM No. 10 to ISO/IEC 10646-1 (Ethiopic Script), 1997-12-01 | ||||
| L2/98-018 | Disposition of Comments Report on Document SC 2 N 2805, Combined PDAM Registration and FPDAM ballot: Amendment 10: Ethioptic Script, 1998-01-14 | |||||
| L2/98-316 | Notices of publication for various amendments and standards | |||||
| L2/99-122 | Clews, John (1999-03-31), Ordering labio-velar characters in Ethiopic | |||||
| L2/00-282 | Everson, Michael (2000-08-25), Proposed glyph fixes for Ethiopic pages in ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 | |||||
| 4.1 | U+1207, 1247, 1287, 12AF, 12CF, 12EF, 130F, 131F, 1347, 135F..1360 | 11 | UTC/1991-026 | X3L2/91-024 | Anderson, Lloyd (1991-02-26), On the Extended Ethiopic Alphabet | |
| L2/98-300 | N1846 | Everson, Michael; Yacob, Daniel (1998-09-11), Proposal to encode Ethiopic Extensions in the BMP of ISO/IEC 10646 | ||||
| L2/04-143 | N2747 | Yacob, Daniel (2004-04-23), Revision of the N1846 Proposal to add Extended Ethiopic to the BMP of the UCS | ||||
| L2/04-265R | N2814R | Everson, Michael; Yacob, Daniel (2004-06-18), Revisions proposed to N2747 (Extended Ethiopic) | ||||
| L2/11-261R2 | Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes, "Change the general category from "So" to "Po" ... [U+1360]" | |||||
| 6.0 | U+135D..135E | 2 | L2/09-050R | N3572 | Priest, Lorna (2009-02-05), Proposal to Encode Additional Ethiopic Characters | |
| L2/09-003R | Moore, Lisa (2009-02-12), UTC #118 / L2 #215 Minutes | |||||
| L2/09-234 | N3603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54 | ||||
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References
- ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
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