Samaritan (Unicode block)

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

Samaritan[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+080x
U+081x
U+082x
U+083x
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 13.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points
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
5.261 (+61)
Note: [1][2]

History

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

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
5.2U+0800..082D, 0830..083E61L2/03-206Constable, Peter (2003-06-13), Proposal to encode Samaritan Pentateuch Sign
L2/04-159N2758Keown, 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
L2/07-231N3291Everson, Michael; Shoulson, Mark (2007-07-27), Preliminary proposal to add the Samaritan alphabet to the BMP of the UCS
L2/07-258Whistler, Ken (2007-08-02), Middle Dots and Don'ts
L2/07-260Freytag, Asmus (2007-08-05), Non-blank spaces
L2/07-225Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), "C.13", UTC #112 Minutes
L2/08-024N3377Everson, Michael (2008-01-25), Proposal to add the Samaritan alphabet to the BMP of the UCS
L2/08-003Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), "Samaritan", UTC #114 Minutes
L2/08-318N3453 (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

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
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