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Unicode Status for Cypriot syllabary

In The Unicode Standard, Cypriot syllabary implementation is discussed in Chapter 8 Europe-II — Ancient and Other Scripts.

The Cypriot syllabary was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 4.0. The script is encoded in one block. It also requires a second block for Aegean numbers which are used in several scripts:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
Cypriot Syllabary10800..1083F4.0U10800.pdf
Aegean Numbers10100..1013F4.0U10100.pdf

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

  • 1997-05-22 Proposal to add Cypriot Syllabary to Unicode/ISO-IEC 10646 — John H. Jenkins (L2/97-108)

  • 1997-06-10 Overview of the Aegean scripts — John H. Jenkins (WG2 N1575 (not online), L2/97-105)

  • 2000-02-15 Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode — Carl-Martin Bunz (L2/00-128)

  • 2000-04-26 Further comments on historic scripts — Carl-Martin Bunz (L2/00-153)

  • 2001-01-28 Status Report on Aegean Script Proposal (Linear B, Aegean Numbers and Cypriot Syllabary) — Deborah Anderson (L2/01-084)

  • 2001-04-03 Revised proposal to encode Aegean scripts in the UCS — Deborah Anderson, Michael Everson (WG2 N2327, L2/01-149)

  • 2001-05-20 Status Report on Aegean Script Proposal (Linear B, Aegean Numbers and Cypriot Syllabary) — Deborah Anderson (L2/01-217)

  • 2001-10-03 Final proposal to encode Aegean scripts in the UCS — Deborah Anderson, Michael Everson (WG2 N2378, L2/01-370)

  • 2002-04-27 Status Report on Aegean Script Proposal and the Submission by the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) — Deborah Anderson (L2/02-160)

  • 2002-05-01 Aegean Script Proposal (notes) — Deborah Anderson (L2/02-191)

  • 2002-05-09 Request for changes in Aegean Scripts — Deborah Anderson, Rick McGowan (WG2 N2455.doc, L2/02-207)

  • 2012-11-03 Sorting all RTL scripts together — Roozbeh Pournader (L2/12-377)