Meroitic Cursive (Unicode block)

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See also: Meroitic Hieroglyphs (Unicode block)
Short description: Unicode character block
Meroitic Cursive
RangeU+109A0..U+109FF
(96 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsMeroitic Cursive
Major alphabetsMeroitic
Assigned90 code points
Unused6 reserved code points
Unicode version history
6.126 (+26)
8.090 (+64)
Note: [1][2]

Meroitic Cursive is a Unicode block containing demotic-style characters for writing the Meroitic language.[3]


History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
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 
L2/99-222 N2098 Wolf, Pawel (1999-07-13), Report on the standardization of a Meroitic sign list for Unicode 
N2134 Everson, Michael (1999-10-02), Response to comments on the question of encoding Meroitic in the UCS (N2098) 
L2/08-269 N3484 Everson, Michael (2008-08-04), Preliminary proposal for encoding the Meroitic script in the SMP of the UCS 
L2/09-188R2 N3646R2 Everson, Michael (2009-05-13), Proposal for encoding the Meroitic script in the SMP of the UCS 
L2/09-250 N3665 Everson, Michael (2009-07-29), Proposal for encoding the Meroitic Hieroglyphic and the Meroitic Cursive scripts in the SMP of the UCS 
L2/09-225R Moore, Lisa (2009-08-17), UTC #120 / L2 #217 Minutes 
N3703 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2010-04-13), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 55, Tokyo 2009-10-26/30 
8.0 U+109BC..109BD, 109C0..109CF, 109D2..109FF[lower-alpha 2] 64 L2/11-237 N4098 Suignard, Michel (2011-06-06), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4168 (ISO/IEC FCD 10646 3rd Ed., Information Technology – Universal Coded Character Set (UCS)) 
N4103 Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 
L2/12-206 N4276 Everson, Michael (2012-06-06), Proposal for encoding Meroitic numbers in the SMP of the UCS 
L2/12-343R2 Moore, Lisa (2012-12-04), UTC #133 Minutes 
N4353 (pdf, doc) Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
  2. See also L2/08-269, L2/09-188R2, and L2/09-250

References