Old South Arabian (Unicode block)
Unicode character block
Old South Arabian Range U+10A60..U+10A7F (32 code points) Plane SMP Scripts Old South Arabian Major alphabets Minean Sabaean Qatabanian Hadramite Himyaritic Assigned 32 code points Unused 0 reserved code points 5.2 (2009) 32 (+32)
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Old South Arabian is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Minean, Sabaean , Qatabanian , Hadramite , and Himyaritic languages of Yemen from the 8th century BCE to the 6th century CE.
U+10A7D OLD SOUTH ARABIAN NUMBER ONE (𐩽) represents both the numeral one and a word divider.[3]
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Old South Arabian block:
Version
Final code points[a]
Count
L2 ID
WG2 ID
Document
5.2
U+10A60..10A7F
32
L2/98-036
N1689
Everson, Michael (1998-01-18), Proposal to encode South Arabian in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646
L2/98-286
N1703
Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), "8.19", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20
L2/99-224
N2097 , N2025-2
Röllig, W. (1999-07-23), Comments on proposals for the Universal Multiple-Octed Coded Character Set
N2133
Response to comments on the question of encoding Old Semitic scripts in the UCS (N2097) , 1999-10-04
L2/00-010
N2103
Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-01-05), "10.4", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark: 1999-09-13--16
N3353 (pdf , doc )
Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), "M51.27", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
L2/07-240
N3309
Maktari, Sultan; Mansour, Kamal (2007-07-30), Proposal to encode South Arabian Script
L2/07-287
N3296
Everson, Michael (2007-08-29), Towards a proposal to encode the Old South Arabian script in the SMP of the UCS
L2/08-044
N3395
Maktari, Sultan; Mansour, Kamal (2008-01-28), Proposal to encode Old South Arabian Script
L2/08-003
Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), "Old South Arabian", UTC #114 Minutes
L2/08-318
N3453 (pdf , doc )
Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.16", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52
L2/08-348
N3517
Anderson, Deborah (2008-09-30), Comments on Old South Arabian Names in N4034
L2/08-161R2
Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Consensus 115-C19", UTC #115 Minutes , Update the approved Old South Arabian block range to U+10A60..U+10A7F, with all code points revised accordingly.
L2/08-412
N3553 (pdf , doc )
Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), "M53.05", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53
L2/08-361
Moore, Lisa (2008-12-02), "Consensus 117-C18", UTC #117 Minutes
L2/09-234
N3603 (pdf , doc )
Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.03a", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
L2/09-104
Moore, Lisa (2009-05-20), "Consensus 119-C19", UTC #119 / L2 #216 Minutes , Approve the name changes in section A, B, and C of document L2/09-177... [U+10A6A, U+10A6F]
^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
References