Samaritan (Unicode block)

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Samaritan
RangeU+0800..U+083F
(64 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsSamaritan
Major alphabetsSamaritan Hebrew
Samaritan Aramaic
Assigned61 code points
Unused3 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.2 (2009)61 (+61)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Samaritan is a Unicode block containing characters used for writing Samaritan Hebrew and Aramaic.

Samaritan[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+080x
U+081x
U+082x
U+083x
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History[edit]

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

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
5.2 U+0800..082D, 0830..083E 61 L2/03-206 Constable, Peter (2003-06-13), Proposal to encode Samaritan Pentateuch Sign
L2/04-159 N2758 Keown, Elaine (2004-05-12), Proposal to add Samaritan Pointing to ISO 10646
N3353 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), "M51.13", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
L2/07-231 N3291 Everson, Michael; Shoulson, Mark (2007-07-27), Preliminary proposal to add the Samaritan alphabet to the BMP of the UCS
L2/07-258 Whistler, Ken (2007-08-02), Middle Dots and Don'ts
L2/07-260 Freytag, Asmus (2007-08-05), Non-blank spaces
L2/07-225 Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), "C.13", UTC #112 Minutes
L2/08-024 N3377 Everson, Michael (2008-01-25), Proposal to add the Samaritan alphabet to the BMP of the UCS
L2/08-003 Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), "Samaritan", UTC #114 Minutes
L2/08-318 N3453 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.8", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.