Linear B Ideograms

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See also: Linear B Syllabary (Unicode block), Linear A (Unicode block), and Aegean Numbers (Unicode block)
Short description: Unicode character block
Linear B Ideograms
RangeU+10080..U+100FF
(128 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsLinear B
Symbol setsLinear B Greek
Assigned123 code points
Unused5 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.0123 (+123)
Note: [1][2]

Linear B Ideograms is a Unicode block containing ideographic characters for writing Mycenaean Greek. Several Linear B ideographs double as syllabic letters, and are encoded in the Linear B Syllabary block.

Block

History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
4.0 U+10080..100FA 123 L2/97-107 Jenkins, John H. (1997-05-27), Proposal to add the Linear B script to ISO/IEC 10646 
L2/00-128 Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode 
L2/01-084 Anderson, Deborah (2001-01-28), Status Report on Aegean Script Proposal (Linear B, Aegean Numbers and Cypriot Syllabary) 
L2/01-217 Anderson, Deborah (2001-05-20), Status Report on Aegean Script Proposal (Linear B, Aegean Numbers and Cypriot Syllabary) 
L2/01-184R Moore, Lisa (2001-06-18), Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting 
L2/01-370 N2378 Anderson, Deborah; Everson, Michael (2001-10-03), Final proposal to encode Aegean scripts in the UCS 
L2/02-154 N2403 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2002-04-22), Draft minutes of WG 2 meeting 41, Hotel Phoenix, Singapore, 2001-10-15/19 
L2/02-160 Anderson, Deborah (2002-04-27), Status Report on Aegean Script Proposal and the Submission by the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) 
L2/02-191 Anderson, Deborah (2002-05-01), Aegean Script Proposal [notes] 
L2/02-207 N2455 Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick (2002-05-09), Request for changes in Aegean Scripts 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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