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Old Sogdian (Unicode block)
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<h2 id="block">Block</h2> <table><tbody><tr><td colspan="17">Old Sogdian[1][2]<a href="https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U10F00.pdf">Official Unicode Consortium code chart</a> (PDF)</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>A</td><td>B</td><td>C</td><td>D</td><td>E</td><td>F</td></tr><tr><td>U+10F0x</td><td>𐼀</td><td>𐼁</td><td>𐼂</td><td>𐼃</td><td>𐼄</td><td>𐼅</td><td>𐼆</td><td>𐼇</td><td>𐼈</td><td>𐼉</td><td>𐼊</td><td>𐼋</td><td>𐼌</td><td>𐼍</td><td>𐼎</td><td>𐼏</td></tr><tr><td>U+10F1x</td><td>𐼐</td><td>𐼑</td><td>𐼒</td><td>𐼓</td><td>𐼔</td><td>𐼕</td><td>𐼖</td><td>𐼗</td><td>𐼘</td><td>𐼙</td><td>𐼚</td><td>𐼛</td><td>𐼜</td><td>𐼝</td><td>𐼞</td><td>𐼟</td></tr><tr><td>U+10F2x</td><td>𐼠</td><td>𐼡</td><td>𐼢</td><td>𐼣</td><td>𐼤</td><td>𐼥</td><td>𐼦</td><td>𐼧</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="17">Notes1.^ As of Unicode version 16.02.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points</td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Old Sogdian block: </p> <table><tbody><tr><th><a href="/facts/Unicode/DDu3MfPV">Version</a></th><th>Final code points<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></th><th>Count</th><th><a href="/facts/International_Committee_for_Information_Technology_Standards/CXq4JYfR">L2</a> ID</th><th><a href="/facts/ISO%2fIEC_JTC_1%2fSC_2/IcW7grUW">WG2</a> ID</th><th>Document</th></tr><tr><td rowspan="10">11.0</td><td rowspan="10">U+10F00..10F27</td><td rowspan="10">40</td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2000/00128-pastscripts.pdf">L2/00-128</a></td><td></td><td>Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), <i>Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01007-iran.txt">L2/01-007</a></td><td></td><td>Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-12-21), "Inscriptional Alphabets (Middle Persian, Parthian) and Sogdian vs. Aramaic", <i>Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2002/02009-iranian.pdf">L2/02-009</a></td><td></td><td>Bunz, Carl-Martin (2001-11-23), "Sogdian script", <i>2nd Iranian Meeting Report</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15149-script-rec.pdf">L2/15-149</a></td><td></td><td>Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Pandey, Anshuman; Glass, Andrew (2015-05-03), "8. Old Sogdian", <i>Recommendations to UTC #143 May 2015 on Script Proposals</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15089r-old-sogdian.pdf">L2/15-089R</a></td><td></td><td>Pandey, Anshuman (2015-11-03), <i>Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Old Sogdian Script</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16037-script-rec.pdf">L2/16-037</a></td><td></td><td>Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-01-22), "10. Old Sogdian", <i>Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16312r-old-sogdian.pdf">L2/16-312R</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4814-old-sogdian.pdf">N4814</a></td><td>Pandey, Anshuman (2016-12-01), <i>Proposal to encode the Old Sogdian script</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17037-script-ad-hoc.pdf">L2/17-037</a></td><td></td><td>Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Ishida, Richard; Misra, Karan; McGowan, Rick (2017-01-21), "13. Old Sogdian", <i>Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17016.htm">L2/17-016</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "D.11", <i>UTC #150 Minutes</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17362.htm">L2/17-362</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C41", <i>UTC #153 Minutes</i></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"></td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="font">Font</h2> <p>There is a Unicode font encoding Old Sogdian - <a href="https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans+Old+Sogdian">Noto Sans Old Sogdian</a>. </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Chapter 14: South and Central Asia-III, Ancient Scripts". The Unicode Standard, Version 11.0 (PDF). Mountain View, CA: Unicode, Inc. June 2018. ISBN 978-1-936213-19-1. <a href="978-1-936213-19-1" target="_blank">978-1-936213-19-1</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>