Graphical representation of the Coptic Unicode block

Coptic is a Unicode block used with the Greek and Coptic block to write the Coptic language. Prior to version 4.1 of the Unicode Standard, the "Greek and Coptic" block was used exclusively to write Coptic text, but Greek and Coptic letter forms are contrastive in many scholarly works, necessitating their disunification. Any specifically Coptic letters in the Greek and Coptic block are not reproduced in the Coptic Unicode block.

Block

Coptic[1][2] (PDF)
0123456789ABCDEF
U+2C8x
U+2C9x
U+2CAx
U+2CBxⲿ
U+2CCx
U+2CDx
U+2CEx
U+2CFx⳿
Notes 1. ^ As of Unicode version 17.0 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 Coptic block:

VersionFinal code pointsCountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
4.1U+2C80..2CEA, 2CF9..2CFF114, )Everson, Michael (1997-12-08), Proposal to encode Coptic in ISO/IEC 10646
Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1998-02-24), "3.A.4.a. Disunificaiton of Coptic", Preliminary Minutes - UTC #74 & L2 #171, Mountain View, CA - December 5, 1997
Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold, "3.A.2. item b. Coptic", Minutes of the joint UTC and L2 meeting from the meeting in Cupertino, February 25-27, 1998
L2/98-286Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), "8.9.2", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20
Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode
Emmel, Stephen (2000-10-05), Coptic -- resolutions from the meeting in Leiden, September 2, 2000
McGowan, Rick (2002-02-03), Coptic Disunification
Everson, Michael; Mansour, Kamal (2002-05-08), Coptic supplementation in the BMP
Moore, Lisa (2002-08-09), "Consensus 91-C12", UTC #91 Minutes
Constable, Peter (2003-06-13), Proposal to Encode Coptic Letter Eie for use in Textual Apparatus
Everson, Michael (2003-08-24), Proposal to add the Coptic alphabet to the BMP of the UCS
Everson, Michael (2003-10-01), Revised proposal to add the Coptic alphabet to the BMP of the UCS
Emmel, Stephen (2004-01-26), Changes to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N2636 and N2676 recommended by the International Association for Coptic Studies
Mansour, Kamal (2004-02-02), Coptic Comments
Everson, Michael; Emmel, Stephen (2004-04-20), Revision of the Coptic block under ballot for the BMP of the UCS
Updated charts for Coptic N2744, 2004-06-22
5.2U+2CEB..2CF17Everson, Michael; Emmel, Stephen; Marjanen, Antti; Dunderberg, Ismo; Baines, John; Pedro, Susana; Emiliano, António (2007-03-15), Proposal to add additional characters for Coptic and Latin in the UCS
Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), "111-C17", UTC #111 Minutes
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.30", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
6.1U+2CF2..2CF32Everson, Michael; Emmel, Stephen; Richter, Siegfried G.; Pedro, Susana; Emiliano, António (2010-08-05), Proposal to add additional characters for Greek, Latin, and Coptic
Moore, Lisa (2010-08-23), "C.25", UTC #124 / L2 #221 Minutes
Everson, Michael; Emmel, Stephen; Richter, Siegfried G.; Pedro, Susana; Emiliano, António (2010-09-21), Revised proposal to add additional characters for Greek, Latin, and Coptic to the UCS
, )"M57.02e", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31