Linear A (Unicode block)

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See also: Linear B Syllabary (Unicode block), Linear B Ideograms (Unicode block), and Aegean Numbers (Unicode block)
Short description: Unicode character block
Linear A
RangeU+10600..U+1077F
(384 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsLinear A
Major alphabetsLinear A
Assigned341 code points
Unused43 reserved code points
Unicode version history
7.0341 (+341)
Note: [1][2]

Linear A is a Unicode block containing the characters of the ancient, undeciphered Linear A.[3]


History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
7.0 U+10600..10736, 10740..10755, 10760..10767 341 L2/97-105 N1575 Jenkins, John H. (1997-05-21), Overview of the Aegean scripts 
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 
L2/00-128 Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode 
L2/00-153 Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-04-26), Further comments on historic scripts 
L2/10-108 Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes 
L2/10-273 N3872 Everson, Michael (2010-07-30), Proposal to encode an additional Linear A character in the UCS 
L2/10-171R2 N3774R2 Everson, Michael; Younger, John (2010-07-31), Proposal for encoding the Linear A script in the SMP of the UCS 
L2/10-221 Moore, Lisa (2010-08-23), UTC #124 / L2 #221 Minutes 
L2/10-422 N3973 Everson, Michael (2010-12-28), Revised proposal for encoding the Linear A script in the SMP of the UCS 
L2/11-016 Moore, Lisa (2011-02-15), UTC #126 / L2 #223 Minutes 
N4103 Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26. 
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26. 
  3. Everson, Michael; Younger, John (2010-12-28). "N3973: Revised proposal for encoding the Linear A script in the SMP of the UCS". Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2. https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10422-n3973-lineara.pdf.