Unicode Status for Blissymbols

Blissymbols are not yet in Unicode. The script has a tentative allocation at U+16200..U+167FF in the Roadmap to the SMP for the Unicode Standard.

Blocks

None.

Proposals and documents

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

• 1998-09-10 Encoding Blissymbols in Plane 1 of the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N1866, L2/98-364 (on evertype.com, not available on UTC website))
• 2020-05-13 Toward encoding Blissymbolics in Plane 1 of the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N1866, L2/20-140)
  • Recommendations to UTC #164 July 2020 on Script Proposals (L2/20-169) (See point 24.)
• 2020-12-31 On the keyboard inputting of Blissymbols — Michael Everson (WG2 N5149, L2/20-271)
  • Recommendations to UTC #167 April 2021 on Script Proposals (L2/21-073) (See point 15.)
  • UTC #167 Minutes (L2/21-067) (See B.1 for decision and action items)
• 2022-01-19 On radicals for lexicography in Blissymbols — Michael Everson (WG2 N5171, L2/22-003)
  • Recommendations to UTC #170 January 2022 on Script Proposals (L2/22-023) (See point 15.)
  • UTC #170 Minutes (L2/22-016) (See D.1 SECTION 15 for decision and action items)
• 2023-06-23 Preliminary proposal for encoding Blissymbols in the UCS (WG2 N5228) — Michael Everson (L2/23-138)
  • Recommendations to UTC #176 July 2023 on Script Proposals (L2/23-164) (See point B.17.)
  • UTC #176 Minutes (L2/23-157) (See D.1 Section 17 for decision and action items)
  • Recommendations to UTC #177 November 2023 on Script Proposals (L2/23-238) (See point B.20.)