Linear B Syllabary

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See also: Linear B Ideograms (Unicode block), Linear A (Unicode block), and Aegean Numbers (Unicode block)
Short description: Unicode character block
Linear B Syllabary
RangeU+10000..U+1007F
(128 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsLinear B
Major alphabetsLinear B Greek
Assigned88 code points
Unused40 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.088 (+88)
Note: [1][2]

Linear B Syllabary is a Unicode block containing characters for the syllabic writing of Mycenaean Greek.

Block

History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
4.0 U+10000..1000B, 1000D..10026, 10028..1003A, 1003C..1003D, 1003F..1004D, 10050..1005D 88 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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