Unicode Status for Ogham
In The Unicode Standard, Ogham script implementation is discussed in Chapter 8 Europe-II — Ancient and Other Scripts
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The Ogham script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 3.0. The script is encoded in the following block:
| Blocks | Character Range | Added in Unicode Version | Unicode Chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ogham | 1680..169F | 3.0 | U1680 |
A number of proposals for its inclusion have been submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and WG2:
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1992-10-20 Ogham — Rick McGowan (Unicode Technical Report #3 R2
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1994-11-16 Proposal for encoding the Ogham script in ISO 10646 — Michael Everson (unofficial version of WG2 N1103
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1997-03-27 Proposed pDAM text for Ogham — Michael Everson (WG2 N1543 (not online) L2/97-049 (not online))
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1997-07-02 Ogham updated during meeting 33 — Michael Everson (WG2 N1610 (not online) L2/97-155 (not online)
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1997-09-22 Text for combined PDAM registration and FPDAM ballot on ISO/IEC 19646-1/Amendment 20 - Ogham — Michael Everson (L2/97-230 (not online))
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1998-03-23 Part 1:Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane AMENDMENT 20: Ogham — WG2 (WG2 N1772 (not online), L2/98-109 (not online))
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1999-12-07 Registration #208 – Ogham — Michael Everson (L2/99-377
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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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2007-10-06 OGHAM SPACE MARK shouldn’t be whitespace — Mark Davis ( L2/07-340
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2007-10-17 Irish comments on L2/07-340 “OGHAM SPACE MARK shouldn’t be whitespace” — Michael Everson (L2/07-392
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2008-03-21 Representation of Ogham Space, Tamil named sequences (WG2 N3407) — INCITS L2 / UTC (WG2 N3407
, L2/08-142) -
2016-04-21 Proposal to define 21 variation sequences for Ogham letters — Andrew West (WG2 N4721, L2/16-110
)- Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals — Deborah Anderson, Ken Whistler, Rick McGowan, Roozbeh Pournader, Andrew Glass, Laurentiu Iancu, and Lisa Moore (L2/16-216) (See section 1 for recommendations)
- Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals — Deborah Anderson, Ken Whistler, Rick McGowan, Roozbeh Pournader, Andrew Glass, Laurentiu Iancu, and Lisa Moore (L2/16-216
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2020-01-13 Proposal to synchronize seven glyphs in the Code Charts — Marcel Schneider (L2/20-012
)