Meroitic Hieroglyphs (Unicode block)

Meroitic Hieroglyphs is a Unicode block formal hieroglyphic containing characters for writing the Meroitic language.[3]

Meroitic Hieroglyphs
RangeU+10980..U+1099F
(32 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsMeroitic Hieroglyphs
Major alphabetsMeroitic
Assigned32 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
6.1 (2012)32 (+32)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]
Meroitic Hieroglyphs[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+1098x 𐦀 𐦁 𐦂 𐦃 𐦄 𐦅 𐦆 𐦇 𐦈 𐦉 𐦊 𐦋 𐦌 𐦍 𐦎 𐦏
U+1099x 𐦐 𐦑 𐦒 𐦓 𐦔 𐦕 𐦖 𐦗 𐦘 𐦙 𐦚 𐦛 𐦜 𐦝 𐦞 𐦟
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1

History edit

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

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
6.1 U+10980..1099F 32 L2/97-268 N1638 Everson, Michael (1997-09-18), Proposal to encode Meroitic in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646-2
L2/98-070 Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold, "3.A.4. item b. Meroitic", Minutes of the joint UTC and L2 meeting from the meeting in Cupertino, February 25-27, 1998
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
L2/99-222 N2098 Wolf, Pawel (1999-07-13), Report on the standardization of a Meroitic sign list for Unicode
N2134 Everson, Michael (1999-10-02), Response to comments on the question of encoding Meroitic in the UCS (N2098)
L2/08-269 N3484 Everson, Michael (2008-08-04), Preliminary proposal for encoding the Meroitic script in the SMP of the UCS
L2/09-188R2 N3646R2 Everson, Michael (2009-05-13), Proposal for encoding the Meroitic script in the SMP of the UCS
L2/09-104 Moore, Lisa (2009-05-20), "B.15.19", UTC #119 / L2 #216 Minutes
L2/09-250 N3665 Everson, Michael (2009-07-29), Proposal for encoding the Meroitic Hieroglyphic and the Meroitic Cursive scripts in the SMP of the UCS
L2/09-225R Moore, Lisa (2009-08-17), "C.6", UTC #120 / L2 #217 Minutes
N3703 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2010-04-13), "M55.25", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 55, Tokyo 2009-10-26/30
  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.
  3. ^ Everson, Michael (2009-07-29). "N3665: Proposal for encoding the Meroitic Hieroglyphic and the Meroitic Cursive scripts in the SMP of the UCS" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.