Ogham (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Ogham
RangeU+1680..U+169F
(32 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsOgham
Major alphabetsIrish Ogham
Assigned29 code points
Unused3 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.029 (+29)
Note: [1][2]

Ogham is a Unicode block containing characters for representing Primitive Irish language inscriptions as codified in the Ogham script.


History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
N1203 Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1995-05-03), Unconfirmed minutes of SC2/WG2 Meeting 27, Geneva 
X3L2/96-101 N1443 Everson, Michael; Jarnefors, Olle (1996-08-04), Allocating Ogham and Runes to the BMP: a strategy for making the BMP maximally useful 
X3L2/96-123 Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1996-12-18), Preliminary Minutes - UTC #71 & X3L2 #168 ad hoc meeting, San Diego - December 5-6, 1996 
L2/97-049 N1543 Everson, Michael (1997-03-27), Proposed pDAM text for Ogham 
N1577 Everson, Michael (1997-05-30), Results of National Enquiry on Ogham 
L2/97-155 N1610 Everson, Michael (1997-07-01), Text for pDAM for Ogham 
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 
L2/98-077 N1695 Paterson, Bruce (1998-02-22), Proposed Disposition of Comments on SC2 letter ballot on FPDAMs 16, 19, & 20 (Braille patterns, Runic, Ogham) 
L2/98-134 N1772 Paterson, Bruce (1998-04-06), Revised Text of ISO 10646 Amendment 20 - Ogham 
N1764 Paterson, Bruce (1998-04-06), Disposition of Comments Report on SC 2 N2971: Amendment 20 - Ogham 
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 
L2/07-392 Everson, Michael (2007-10-17), Irish comments on L2/07-340 "OGHAM SPACE MARK shouldn't be whitespace" 
L2/07-345 Moore, Lisa (2007-10-25), UTC #113 Minutes 
L2/08-142 N3407 Representation of Ogham Space, Tamil named sequences, 2008-04-09 
L2/08-318 N3453 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52, "Insert a dashed box around the current dash-looking glyph for 1680 OGHAM SPACE MARK, based on document N3407" 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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