Glagolitic (Unicode block)

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See also: Glagolitic Supplement (Unicode block)
Short description: Unicode character block
Glagolitic
RangeU+2C00..U+2C5F
(96 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsGlagolitic
Major alphabetsOld Slavonic
Assigned94 code points
Unused2 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.194 (+94)
Note: [1][2]

Glagolitic is a Unicode block containing the characters invented by Saint Cyril for translating scripture into Slavonic. Glagolitic script is the precursor of Cyrillic.

Block

History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
4.1 U+2C00..2C2E, 2C30..2C5E 94 L2/98-190 Glagolitic coded character set for bibliographic information interchange, 1996-12-15 
L2/98-070 Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold, 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), Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20 
L2/99-012 N1931 Everson, Michael (1998-11-24), Revised proposal for encoding the Glagolitic script in the UCS 
L2/99-054R Aliprand, Joan (1999-06-21), Approved Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting in Palo Alto, February 3-5, 1999 
L2/02-190 Wissink, Cathy (2002-04-22), Glagolitic Character Set 
L2/02-448 N2555 Everson, Michael; Cleminson, Ralph (2002-12-04), Revised proposal for encoding the Glagolitic script in the UCS 
L2/03-282R N2610R Everson, Michael; Cleminson, Ralph (2003-09-04), Final proposal for encoding the Glagolitic script in the UCS 
L2/04-052 Cleminson, Ralph (2004-01-16), Letter from Ralph Cleminson about Glagolitic encoding 
L2/04-051 Anderson, Deborah (2004-01-29), Comments on 2619R Final Glagolitic proposal 
14.0 U+2C2F, 2C5F 2 L2/19-288R Vukojević, Zoran (2019-09-09), Proposal to add a character used in printed Glagolitic works 
L2/19-343 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2019-10-06), Recommendations to UTC #161 October 2019 on Script Proposals 
L2/19-323 Moore, Lisa (2019-10-01), UTC #161 Minutes 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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