Old South Arabian (Unicode block)

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See also: Old North Arabian (Unicode block)
Short description: Unicode character block
Old South Arabian
RangeU+10A60..U+10A7F
(32 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsOld South Arabian
Major alphabetsMinean
Sabaean
Qatabanian
Hadramite
Himyaritic
Assigned32 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.232 (+32)
Note: [1][2]

Old South Arabian is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Minean, Sabaean, Qatabanian, Hadramite, and Himyaritic languages of Yemen from the 8th century BCE to the 6th century CE.

U+10A7D OLD SOUTH ARABIAN NUMBER ONE (𐩽) represents both the numeral one and a word divider.[3]


History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
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 
N3353 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27 
L2/07-240 N3309 Maktari, Sultan; Mansour, Kamal (2007-07-30), Proposal to encode South Arabian Script 
L2/07-287 N3296 Everson, Michael (2007-08-29), Towards a proposal to encode the Old South Arabian script in the SMP of the UCS 
L2/08-044 N3395 Maktari, Sultan; Mansour, Kamal (2008-01-28), Proposal to encode Old South Arabian Script 
L2/08-003 Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), UTC #114 Minutes 
L2/08-318 N3453 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52 
L2/08-348 N3517 Anderson, Deborah (2008-09-30), Comments on Old South Arabian Names in N4034 
L2/08-161R2 Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), UTC #115 Minutes, "Update the approved Old South Arabian block range to U+10A60..U+10A7F, with all code points revised accordingly." 
L2/08-412 N3553 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53 
L2/08-361 Moore, Lisa (2008-12-02), UTC #117 Minutes 
L2/09-234 N3603 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54 
L2/09-104 Moore, Lisa (2009-05-20), UTC #119 / L2 #216 Minutes, "Approve the name changes in section A, B, and C of document L2/09-177... [U+10A6A, U+10A6F]" 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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