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Old Persian (Unicode block)
Unicode character block

Old Persian is a Unicode block containing cuneiform characters for writing the Old Persian language of the Achaemenid Empire.

Old Persian[1][2]Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
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U+103Ax𐎠𐎡𐎢𐎣𐎤𐎥𐎦𐎧𐎨𐎩𐎪𐎫𐎬𐎭𐎮𐎯
U+103Bx𐎰𐎱𐎲𐎳𐎴𐎵𐎶𐎷𐎸𐎹𐎺𐎻𐎼𐎽𐎾𐎿
U+103Cx𐏀𐏁𐏂𐏃𐏈𐏉𐏊𐏋𐏌𐏍𐏎𐏏
U+103Dx𐏐𐏑𐏒𐏓𐏔𐏕
Notes1.^ As of Unicode version 16.02.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points
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History

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

VersionFinal code points1CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
4.1U+103A0..103C3, 103C8..103D550L2/97-269N1639Everson, Michael (1997-09-18), Proposal to encode Old Persian Cuneiform, Plane 1
L2/98-070Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold, "3.A.4. item c. Old Persian Cuneiform", Minutes of the joint UTC and L2 meeting from the meeting in Cupertino, February 25-27, 1998
L2/98-286N1703Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), "8.19", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20
L2/99-224N2097, N2025-2Röllig, W. (1999-07-23), Comments on proposals for the Universal Multiple-Octed Coded Character Set
N2133Response to comments on the question of encoding Old Semitic scripts in the UCS (N2097), 1999-10-04
L2/00-010N2103Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-01-05), "10.4", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark: 1999-09-13—16
L2/00-128Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode
L2/01-007Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-12-21), "Old Persian cuneiform", Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode
L2/02-009Bunz, Carl-Martin (2001-11-23), "Old Persian cuneiform script", 2nd Iranian Meeting Report
L2/03-097N2545Everson, Michael (2002-12-03), Revised proposal to encode the Old Persian script in the UCS
L2/03-149RN2583REverson, Michael (2003-09-18), Final proposal to encode the Old Persian script in the UCS
L2/05-289Whistler, Ken (2005-10-06), Cuneiform property inconsistencies
L2/05-279Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), "B.14.1", UTC #105 Minutes

References

  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names