Old Sogdian (Unicode block)


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Old Sogdian is a Unicode block containing characters for a group of related, non-cursive Sogdian writing systems used to write historic Sogdian in the 3rd to 5th centuries CE.[3]

Old Sogdian
RangeU+10F00..U+10F2F
(48 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsOld Sogdian
Assigned40 code points
Unused8 reserved code points
Unicode version history
11.0 (2018)40 (+40)
Unicode documentation
Code chartβ€ƒβˆ£β€ƒWeb page
Note: [1][2]
Old Sogdian[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
Β  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+10F0x πΌ€β€Ž πΌβ€Ž πΌ‚β€Ž πΌƒβ€Ž πΌ„β€Ž πΌ…β€Ž πΌ†β€Ž πΌ‡β€Ž πΌˆβ€Ž πΌ‰β€Ž πΌŠβ€Ž πΌ‹β€Ž πΌŒβ€Ž πΌβ€Ž πΌŽβ€Ž πΌβ€Ž
U+10F1x πΌβ€Ž πΌ‘β€Ž πΌ’β€Ž πΌ“β€Ž πΌ”β€Ž πΌ•β€Ž πΌ–β€Ž πΌ—β€Ž πΌ˜β€Ž πΌ™β€Ž πΌšβ€Ž πΌ›β€Ž πΌœβ€Ž πΌβ€Ž πΌžβ€Ž πΌŸβ€Ž
U+10F2x πΌ β€Ž πΌ‘β€Ž πΌ’β€Ž πΌ£β€Ž πΌ€β€Ž πΌ₯β€Ž πΌ¦β€Ž πΌ§β€Ž
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

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

Version Final code points[a] Count L2Β ID WG2Β ID Document
11.0 U+10F00..10F27 40 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), "Inscriptional Alphabets (Middle Persian, Parthian) and Sogdian vs. Aramaic", Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode
L2/02-009 Bunz, Carl-Martin (2001-11-23), "Sogdian script", 2nd Iranian Meeting Report
L2/15-149 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Pandey, Anshuman; Glass, Andrew (2015-05-03), "8. Old Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #143 May 2015 on Script Proposals
L2/15-089R Pandey, Anshuman (2015-11-03), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Old Sogdian Script
L2/16-037 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, LaurenΘ›iu (2016-01-22), "10. Old Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals
L2/16-312R N4814 Pandey, Anshuman (2016-12-01), Proposal to encode the Old Sogdian script
L2/17-037 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, LaurenΘ›iu; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Ishida, Richard; Misra, Karan; McGowan, Rick (2017-01-21), "13. Old Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals
L2/17-016 Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "D.11", UTC #150 Minutes
L2/17-362 Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C41", UTC #153 Minutes
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

There is a Unicode font encoding Old Sogdian - Noto Sans Old Sogdian.

  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. ^ "Chapter 14: South and Central Asia-III, Ancient Scripts". The Unicode Standard, Version 11.0 (PDF). Mountain View, CA: Unicode, Inc. June 2018. ISBNΒ 978-1-936213-19-1.