Phonetic Extensions

Short description: Unicode character block

Phonetic Extensions
Range	U+1D00..U+1D7F (128 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Cyrillic (2 char.) Greek (15 char.) Latin (111 char.)
Major alphabets	UPA Dictionary usage
Assigned	128 code points
Unused	0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.0	108 (+108)
4.1	128 (+20)
Note:

Phonetic Extensions is a Unicode block containing phonetic characters used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, Old Irish phonetic notation, the Oxford English dictionary and American dictionaries, and Americanist and Russianist phonetic notations. Its character set is continued in the following Unicode block, Phonetic Extensions Supplement.

History

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

Version	Final code points	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
L2/02-192		Everson, Michael (2002-05-02), Everson's Reply on UPA
	N2442	Everson, Michael; Kolehmainen, Erkki I.; Ruppel, Klaas; Trosterud, Trond (2002-05-21), Justification for placing the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet in the BMP
L2/02-291		Whistler, Ken (2002-05-31), WG2 report from Dublin
L2/02-292		Whistler, Ken (2002-06-03), Early look at WG2 consent docket
L2/02-166R2		Moore, Lisa (2002-08-09), UTC #91 Minutes
L2/02-253		Moore, Lisa (2002-10-21), UTC #92 Minutes
L2/11-043		Freytag, Asmus; Karlsson, Kent (2011-02-02), Proposal to correct mistakes and inconsistencies in certain property assignments for super and subscripted letters
L2/11-016		Moore, Lisa (2011-02-15), UTC #126 / L2 #223 Minutes
L2/11-160		PRI #181 Changing General Category of Twelve Characters, 2011-05-02
U+1D6B	1	L2/02-421	N2514	Everson, Michael (2002-11-10), Proposal to encode one Latin letter in the UCS
4.1	U+1D6C..1D76	11	L2/03-174R2	N2632	Constable, Peter (2003-09-30), Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Middle Tilde in the UCS
			L2/03-240R3		Moore, Lisa (2003-10-21), UTC #96 Minutes
			L2/04-132	N2740	Constable, Peter (2004-04-19), Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS
	U+1D77..1D78	2	L2/99-082	N1962	Everson, Michael (1999-02-26), Optimizing Georgian representation in the BMP of the UCS
			L2/00-115R2		Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83
			L2/03-230R2	N2608R2	Everson, Michael (2003-09-04), Proposal to add Georgian and other characters to the BMP of the UCS
	U+1D79	1	L2/03-331	N2641	Everson, Michael (2003-10-05), Proposal to encode one Irish phonetic letter in the UCS
	L2/03-136		Moore, Lisa (2003-08-18), UTC #95 Minutes
	L2/03-334	N2645	Davis, Mark (2003-10-08), Latin Small Letter th with Strikethrough
	L2/03-359	N2656	Freytag, Asmus (2003-10-15), Phonetic symbols used in Dictionaries
	L2/03-356R2		Moore, Lisa (2003-10-22), UTC #97 Minutes
	U+1D7B..1D7F	5	L2/03-170		Constable, Peter (2003-05-30), Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Retroflex Hook in the UCS
			L2/03-169R		Constable, Peter (2003-06-06), Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Palatal Hook in the UCS
			L2/03-180		Constable, Peter (2003-06-07), Proposal to Encode Additional Phonetic Modifier Letters in the UCS
			L2/03-190R		Constable, Peter (2003-06-08), Proposal to Encode Additional Phonetic Symbols in the UCS
			L2/03-136		Moore, Lisa (2003-08-18), UTC #95 Minutes
			L2/04-044		Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Revised Proposal to Encode Additional Phonetic Modifier Letters in the UCS
			L2/04-045		Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Revised Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Palatal Hook in the UCS
			L2/04-046		Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Revised Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Retroflex Hook in the UCS
			L2/04-047		Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Revised Proposal to Encode Additional Phonetic Symbols in the UCS
			L2/04-132	N2740	Constable, Peter (2004-04-19), Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS
			L2/04-144		Hallissy, Bob (2004-04-27), Soft-dotted characters in the pipeline
			L2/04-003R		Moore, Lisa (2004-05-17), UTC #98 Minutes

See also

• Cyrillic script in Unicode
• Greek alphabet in Unicode
• Latin script in Unicode