Psalter Pahlavi (Unicode block)

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See also: Inscriptional Pahlavi (Unicode block)
Short description: Unicode character block
Psalter Pahlavi
RangeU+10B80..U+10BAF
(48 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsPsalter Pahlavi
Major alphabetsPsalter Pahlavi
Assigned29 code points
Unused19 reserved code points
Unicode version history
7.029 (+29)
Note: [1][2]

Psalter Pahlavi is a Unicode block containing characters for writing Middle Persian.[3] The script derives its name from the "Pahlavi Psalter", a 6th- or 7th-century translation of a Syriac book of psalms.


History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
7.0 U+10B80..10B91, 10B99..10B9C, 10BA9..10BAF 29 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 
L2/07-102 N3241 Everson, Michael (2007-04-12), Proposal for encoding the Parthian, Inscriptional Pahlavi, and Psalter Pahlavi scripts in the BMP of the UCS 
N3353 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27 
L2/07-268 N3253 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27 
L2/07-225 Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), UTC #112 Minutes 
L2/07-207R N3286R Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh (2007-08-24), Proposal for encoding the Inscriptional Parthian, Inscriptional Pahlavi, and Psalter Pahlavi scripts in the SMP of the UCS 
L2/11-147 N4040 Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh (2011-05-06), Proposal for encoding the Psalter Pahlavi script in the SMP of the UCS 
L2/11-261R2 Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes 
L2/11-330 N4181 Anderson, Deborah (2011-11-04), Proposed Additions to ISO/IEC 10646 
N4253 (pdf, doc) Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 59, 2012-09-12 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26. 
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26. 
  3. Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh (2011-05-06). "N4040: Proposal for encoding the Psalter Pahlavi script in the SMP of the UCS". Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 and UTC. https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11147-n4040-psalter-pahlavi.pdf. Retrieved 2014-08-19.