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Unicode Status for Glagolitic

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

Blocks

Section titled “Blocks”

The Glagolitic script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 4.1. The script is now encoded in the following blocks:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode chart
Glagolitic2C00..2C5F4.1U2C00.pdf
Glagolitic Supplement1E000..1E02F9.0U1E000.pdf

Characters

Section titled “Characters”

Subsequent to version 4.1, the following characters have been added to the script:

CharactersUnicode VersionDocumentation
1E000..1E0069.0WG2 N4608, L2/14-087
1E008..1E0189.0WG2 N4608, L2/14-087
1E01B..1E0219.0WG2 N4608, L2/14-087
1E023..1E0249.0WG2 N4608, L2/14-087
1E026..1E02A9.0WG2 N4608, L2/14-087

Documentation refers to ISO Working Group and Unicode proposals

Proposals and documents

Section titled “Proposals and documents”

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

  • 1992-10-29 Glagolitic — Joe Becker (Unicode Technical Report #3 R2)
  • 1996-12-15 Glagolitic coded character set for bibliographic information interchange (L2/98-190)
  • 1997-12-08 Proposal to encode Glagolitic in ISO/IEC 10646 — Michael Everson (WG2 N1659.htm, L2/98-023 (neither online))
  • 1998-11-24 Revised proposal for encoding the Glagolitic script in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N1931, L2/99-012)
  • 2002-12-04 Revised proposal for encoding the Glagolitic script in the UCS — Michael Everson, Ralph Cleminson (WG2 N2555, L2/02-448)
  • 2003-09-04 Final proposal for encoding the Glagolitic script in the UCS — Michael Everson, Ralph Cleminson (WG2 N2610, L2/03-282)
  • 2004-01-16 Letter about Glagolitic encoding — Ralph Cleminson (L2/04-052)
  • 2004-01-29 Comments on 2619R Final Glagolitic proposal — Deborah Anderson (L2/04-051)
  • 2004-05-29 Proposal to add COMBINING GLAGOLITIC SUSPENSION MARK to the BMP of the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N2763, L2/04-171)
  • 2013-09-23 Proposal to Encode a Slavonic Punctuation Mark in Unicode — Aleksandr Andreev, Yuri Shardt, Nikita Simmons (L2/13-140)
  • 2013-11-01 Expert Feedback on L2/13-140 SLAVONIC PARAGRAPHOS — Stephen Emmel, Jost Gippert (L2/13-212)
  • 2014-02-04 Proposal to Encode a Slavonic Punctuation Mark in Unicode — Aleksandr Andreev, Yuri Shardt, Nikita Simmons (WG2 N4534, L2/13-238)
  • 2014-04-27 Expert Feedback on L2/14-087 Proposal to Encode Additional Glagolitic Characters — Ralph Cleminson, David Birnbaum (L2/14-103)
  • 2014-07-21 Additional Expert Feedback on L2/14-087 Proposal to Encode Additional Glagolitic Characters — Ralph Cleminson, David Birnbaum (L2/14-165)
  • 2014-08-20 Proposal to Encode Additional Glagolitic Characters in Unicode — Aleksandr Andreev, Heinz Miklas, Yuri Shardt (WG2 N4608, L2/14-087)
  • 2014-10-21 WG2 Consent Docket — Ken Whistler, Deborah Anderson (L2/14-259)
  • 2015-07-20 Suggested Responses to Suggestions re Cyrillic in L2/15-014 — Ken Whistler (L2/15-182)
  • 2019-09-09 Proposal to add a character used in printed Glagolitic works to the UCS — Zoran Vukojević (L2/19-288)
    • Recommendations to UTC #161 October 2019 on Script Proposals (L2/19-343) (See point 1.)
    • UTC #161 Minutes (L2/19-323) (See C.13 for decision and action items)
  • 2025-06-30 (Feedback: Glagolitic representative glyphs)
    • Recommendations to UTC #184 (July 2025) on Script Proposals (L2/25-187) (See point 5.7.)