Unicode Status for Armenian

In The Unicode Standard, Armenian script implementation is discussed in Chapter 7 Europe-I — Modern and Liturgical Scripts.

The Armenian script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 1.0. The script is encoded in the following blocks:

Blocks	Character Range	Added in Unicode Version	Unicode chart
Armenian	0530..058F	1.0	U0530.pdf
Alphabetic Presentation Forms	FB13..FB17	1.1	UFB00.pdf

Subsequent to version 1.1, the following characters have been added to the Armenian script:

Characters	Unicode Version	Documentation
058A	3.0	n1984w97.doc, L2/99-047
058D..058E	7.0	WG2 N3923, L2/10-373, WG2 N3924,L2/10-354
058F	6.1	n3771.pdf, L2/10-008
0560	11.0	L2/17-032
0588	11.0	L2/17-032

Documentation refers to ISO Working Group and Unicode proposals

A number of proposals for its inclusion were submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and WG2:

• 1996-12-15 ISO 10585 – Armenian alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange — ISO 10585 (L2/01-237)

• 1997-05-13 Response to feedback from US on Armenian N 1446— Richard Youatt (WG2 N1560.doc, L2/97-084 — (neither online))

• 1997-07-03 Armenian ad hoc report — Suignard (WG2 N1616, L2/97-161 — not online)

• 1998-07-06 Application for Registration No.221, Armenian alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange — NB Ireland (L2/98-244 — not online)

• 1998-12-16 Armenian Comments on SC 2 N 3134, Application for Registration No.221, Armenian alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange — National Body of Armenia (WG2 N1981, L2/98-426)

• 1999-02-05 Encoding of the Armenian script in ISO 10646, answer to SC2 N3222 (L2/98-426) — Michel Suignard (WG2 N1984 word doc, L2/99-047)

• 1999-07-23 Comments on proposals for the Universal Multiple-Octed Coded Character Set — Dr. W. Röllig (xlat. Küster) (L2/99-224)

• 2000-01-13 Communication from Armenia (SARM) — Levon H. Aslanyan (L2/00-017)

• 2000-03-14 Armenian comments and 3 attachments AMST 34.001-99, 34.002-99, 10646-1 Armenian — L. H. Aslanyan (WG2 N2190, L2/00-090)

• 2000-12-21 Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode, Iranianist meeting report from Paris — Carl-Martin Bunz (L2/01-007)

• 2010-02-05 Proposed additions to ISO/IEC 10646:2003 — INCITS/L2 (WG2 N3810, L2/10-068)

• 2010-02-10 Proposal to encode an Armenian Dram currency symbol — Karl Pentzlin (WG2 N3771, L2/10-008)

• 2010-09-24 Proposal to add an Armenian Eternity Sign (WG2 N3923) [withdrawn by author] — Karl Pentzlin (WG2 N3923, L2/10-373)

• 2010-09-24 Proposal to encode two symbols for Armenian in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N3924, L2/10-354)

• 2017-01-19 Armenian Phonetic Characters in Unicode — Luc V. Baronian (L2/17-032)

  • Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals (L2/17-037) (See point 1.)

  • UTC #150 Minutes (L2/17-016) (See C.13 for decision and action items)

  • UTC #153 Minutes (L2/17-362) (See B.1.1.4 for decision and action items)

• 2017-09-07 Evidence of diaeresis in Armenian — Yury Golev, Deborah Anderson (L2/17-315)

  • Recommendations to UTC #153 October 2017 on Script Proposals (L2/17-384) (See point 4.)

  • UTC #153 Minutes (L2/17-362) (See C.5 for decision and action items)

• 2020-05-13 Uppercase of U+0587 ARMENIAN SMALL LIGATURE ECH YIWN — Deborah Anderson (L2/20-143)

  • Comments on Public Review Issues (April 20 - July 20, 2020) (see Feedback routed to Script ad hoc for evaluation)

  • Recommendations to UTC #164 July 2020 on Script Proposals (L2/20-169) (See point 1.)

  • UTC #164 Minutes (L2/20-172) (See D.1 F2 for decision and action items)

• 2022-07-20 Recommendations to UTC #172 July 2022 on Script Proposals (L2/22-128) (See point 18.)

• 2024-03-15 Revised: Proposal to encode three Armenian superscript characters — Hossep Dolatian (L2/24-107)

  • Recommendations to UTC #179 April 2024 on Script Proposals (L2/24-068) (See point A.II.2.)

  • UTC #179 Minutes (L2/24-061) (See D.1 Section II-2 for decision and action items)