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Unicode Status for Lydian

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

The Lydian script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 5.1. The script is encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
Lydian10920..1093F5.1U10920.pdf

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

  • 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)

  • 2005-04-27 Proposal for encoding the Lydian script in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N2940, L2/05-102)

  • 2005-08-31 Old Anatolian scripts — Michael Everson (L2/05-241)

  • 2006-02-05 Proposal to encode the Lycian and Lydian scripts in the SMP of the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N3019, L2/05-380, L2/06-050)

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