Manichaean (Unicode block)
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Manichaean is a Unicode block containing characters historically used for writing Sogdian, Parthian, and the dialects of Fars.
Block
| Manichaean[1][2] (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+10ACx | 𐫀 | 𐫁 | 𐫂 | 𐫃 | 𐫄 | 𐫅 | 𐫆 | 𐫇 | 𐫈 | 𐫉 | 𐫊 | 𐫋 | 𐫌 | 𐫍 | 𐫎 | 𐫏 |
| U+10ADx | 𐫐 | 𐫑 | 𐫒 | 𐫓 | 𐫔 | 𐫕 | 𐫖 | 𐫗 | 𐫘 | 𐫙 | 𐫚 | 𐫛 | 𐫜 | 𐫝 | 𐫞 | 𐫟 |
| U+10AEx | 𐫠 | 𐫡 | 𐫢 | 𐫣 | 𐫤 | 𐫥 | 𐫦 | 𐫫 | 𐫬 | 𐫭 | 𐫮 | 𐫯 | ||||
| U+10AFx | 𐫰 | 𐫱 | 𐫲 | 𐫳 | 𐫴 | 𐫵 | 𐫶 | |||||||||
| Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 17.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points |
The block has five variation sequences defined for standardized variants. They use U+FE00 VARIATION SELECTOR-1 (VS1) to denote alternate letter forms:
| U+ | 10AC5 | 10AC6 | 10AD6 | 10AD7 | 10AE1 |
| base code point | 𐫅 | 𐫆 | 𐫖 | 𐫗 | 𐫡 |
| base + VS01 | 𐫅︀ | 𐫆︀ | 𐫖︀ | 𐫗︀ | 𐫡︀ |
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Manichaean block:
| Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | U+10AC0..10AE6, 10AEB..10AF6 | 51 | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode | ||
| Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-04-26), Further comments on historic scripts | |||||
| Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-12-21), "Manichaean and Christian Sogdian Scripts", Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode | |||||
| Bunz, Carl-Martin (2001-11-23), "Manichaean script", 2nd Iranian Meeting Report | |||||
| Everson, Michael (2002-12-03), Revised proposal to encode the Manichaean script in the UCS | |||||
| McGowan, Rick (2004-07-20), Manichaean Joining Types and Shaping Behavior | |||||
| Everson, Michael (2008-01-28), Revised proposal to encode the Manichaean script in the UCS | |||||
| Everson, Michael; Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2008-11-01), Proposal for encoding the Manichaean script in the SMP of the UCS | |||||
| Pournader, Roozbeh; Anderson, Deborah (2009-08-06), Specifying Joining Behavior for Manichaean Aleph | |||||
| Everson, Michael; Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2009-09-30), Revised proposal for encoding the Manichaean script in the SMP of the UCS | |||||
| Everson, Michael; Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond; Pournader, Roozbeh; Afshar, Shervin (2011-05-10), Second revised proposal for encoding the Manichaean script in the SMP of the UCS | |||||
| Moore, Lisa (2011-05-17), "C.10", UTC #127 / L2 #224 Minutes | |||||
| "11.10 Manichaean script", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | |||||
| Moore, Lisa (2014-02-17), "C.9", UTC #138 Minutes | |||||
| , ) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.02d, M62.02h", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA | ||||