Ogham (Unicode block)

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Ogham
RangeU+1680..U+169F
(32 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsOgham
Major alphabetsIrish Ogham
Assigned29 code points
Unused3 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.0 (1999)29 (+29)
Chart
Code chart
Note: [1][2]

Ogham is a Unicode block containing characters for representing Primitive Irish language inscriptions as codified in the Ogham script.

Ogham[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+168x   ᚁ ᚂ ᚃ ᚄ ᚅ ᚆ ᚇ ᚈ ᚉ ᚊ ᚋ ᚌ ᚍ ᚎ ᚏ
U+169x ᚐ ᚑ ᚒ ᚓ ᚔ ᚕ ᚖ ᚗ ᚘ ᚙ ᚚ ᚛ ᚜
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 14.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History[]

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

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
3.0 U+1680..169C 29 N1103R Everson, Michael (1994-11-16), Proposal for encoding the Ogham script in ISO 10646
N1203 Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1995-05-03), "6.1.5.1", Unconfirmed minutes of SC2/WG2 Meeting 27, Geneva
X3L2/96-101 N1443 Everson, Michael; Jarnefors, Olle (1996-08-04), Allocating Ogham and Runes to the BMP: a strategy for making the BMP maximally useful
X3L2/96-123 Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1996-12-18), "3.2", Preliminary Minutes - UTC #71 & X3L2 #168 ad hoc meeting, San Diego - December 5-6, 1996
L2/97-049 N1543 Everson, Michael (1997-03-27), Proposed pDAM text for Ogham
N1577 Everson, Michael (1997-05-30), Results of National Enquiry on Ogham
L2/97-155 N1610 Everson, Michael (1997-07-01), Text for pDAM for Ogham
L2/97-288 N1603 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "8.6", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June - 4 July 1997
L2/98-077 N1695 Paterson, Bruce (1998-02-22), Proposed Disposition of Comments on SC2 letter ballot on FPDAMs 16, 19, & 20 (Braille patterns, Runic, Ogham)
L2/98-134 N1772 Paterson, Bruce (1998-04-06), Revised Text of ISO 10646 Amendment 20 - Ogham
N1764 Paterson, Bruce (1998-04-06), Disposition of Comments Report on SC 2 N2971: Amendment 20 - Ogham
L2/98-286 N1703 Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), "6.2.3 FPDAM-19 on Runic and FPDAM-20 on Ogham", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20
L2/07-340 Davis, Mark (2007-10-06), OGHAM SPACE MARK shouldn't be whitespace
L2/07-392 Everson, Michael (2007-10-17), Irish comments on L2/07-340 "OGHAM SPACE MARK shouldn't be whitespace"
L2/07-345 Moore, Lisa (2007-10-25), "Ogham Space Mark", UTC #113 Minutes
L2/08-142 N3407 Representation of Ogham Space, Tamil named sequences, 2008-04-09
L2/08-318 N3453 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.1", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52, Insert a dashed box around the current dash-looking glyph for 1680 OGHAM SPACE MARK, based on document N3407
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also[]

  • I.S. 434

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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