Old Persian (Unicode block)

Short description: Unicode character block

Old Persian
Range	U+103A0..U+103DF (64 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Old Persian
Major alphabets	Old Persian
Assigned	50 code points
Unused	14 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.1	50 (+50)
Note:

Old Persian is a Unicode block containing cuneiform characters for writing the Old Persian language of the Achaemenid Empire.

History

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

Version	Final code points	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
L2/99-224	N2097, N2025-2	Röllig, W. (1999-07-23), Comments on proposals for the Universal Multiple-Octed Coded Character Set
	N2133	Response to comments on the question of encoding Old Semitic scripts in the UCS (N2097), 1999-10-04
L2/00-010	N2103	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-01-05), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark: 1999-09-13--16
L2/00-128		Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode
L2/01-007		Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-12-21), Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode
L2/02-009		Bunz, Carl-Martin (2001-11-23), 2nd Iranian Meeting Report
L2/03-097	N2545	Everson, Michael (2002-12-03), Revised proposal to encode the Old Persian script in the UCS
L2/03-149R	N2583R	Everson, Michael (2003-09-18), Final proposal to encode the Old Persian script in the UCS
L2/05-289		Whistler, Ken (2005-10-06), Cuneiform property inconsistencies
L2/05-279		Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), UTC #105 Minutes