Unicode Status for Avestan
In The Unicode Standard, Avestan script implementation is discussed in Chapter 10 Middle East-II — Ancient Scripts
.
The Avestan script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 5.2. The script is encoded in the following block:
| Blocks | Character Range | Added in Unicode Version | Unicode Chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avestan | 10B00..10B3F | 5.2 | U10B00.pdf |
A number of proposals for its inclusion were submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and WG2:
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1992-10-30 Pahlavi/Avestan — Rick McGowan (Unicode Technical Report #3 R2
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1998-01-18 Proposal to encode Avestan in the BMP of ISO/IEC 10646 — Michael Everson (WG2 N1684 (not online), L2/98-031
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2000-02-15 Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode — Carl-Martin Bunz (L2/00-128
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2000-04-26 Further comments on historic scripts — Carl-Martin Bunz (L2/00-153
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2000-12-21 Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode, Iranianist meeting report from Paris — Carl-Martin Bunz (L2/01-007
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2002-12-04 Avestan, supplementary background material from 3rd Iranian Unicode Conference, November 2002 — Titus Project (L2/02-450
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2002-12-04 Revised proposal to encode the Avestan and Pahlavi script in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N2556
, L2/02-449, L2/03-072) -
2006-10-20 Proposal to encode the Avestan script in the BMP of the UCS — Michael Everson and Roozbeh Pournader (WG2 N3178
, L2/06-335) -
2006-11-06 Note from Jost Gippert to Deborah Anderson in support of Avestan — Deborah Anderson (L2/06-375
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2007-03-22 Revised proposal to encode the Avestan script in the SMP of the UCS — Michael Everson and Roozbeh Pournader (WG2 N3197
, L2/07-006) -
2007-09-13 Comments on the Avestan Separation Point — Deborah Anderson (WG2 N3336
, L2/07-304) -
2008-01-28 Additional Comments on the Avestan Separation Point — Deborah Anderson (WG2 N3443
, L2/08-088) -
2008-04-13 Expert Feedback on AVESTAN SEPARATION POINT — Deborah Anderson (WG2 N3444
, L2/08-155, L2/08-173) -
2012-11-03 Sorting all RTL scripts together — Roozbeh Pournader (L2/12-377
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