Marchen (Unicode block)
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Short description: Unicode character block
| Marchen | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+11C70..U+11CBF (80 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Marchen |
| Assigned | 68 code points |
| Unused | 12 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 9.0 | 68 (+68) |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Marchen is a Unicode block containing characters from the Marchen alphabet, which has been used to write the extinct Zhang-Zhung language of the Zhang-zhung culture of Tibet.[3] In modern Bon usage, Marchen is also used to write Tibetan.
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Marchen block:
| Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L2/13-197 | N4491 | West, Andrew (2013-10-22), Final proposal to encode the Marchen script in the SMP of the UCS | |||
| N4403 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14 | ||||
| L2/14-026 | Moore, Lisa (2014-02-17), UTC #138 Minutes | ||||
| N4553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA | ||||
| L2/15-017 | Moore, Lisa (2015-02-12), UTC #142 Minutes, "Rescind approval of U+11CA8 MARCHEN SUBJOINED LETTER -A." | ||||
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References
- ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/.
- ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html.
- ↑ West, Andrew (2013-10-22). "N4491: Final proposal to encode the Marchen script in the SMP of the UCS". http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4491.pdf.
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