Unicode Status for Phoenician
In The Unicode Standard, Phoenician script implementation is discussed in Chapter 10 Middle East-II — Ancient Scripts
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The Phoenician script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 5.0. The script is encoded in the following block:
| Blocks | Character Range | Added in Unicode Version | Unicode Chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phoenician | 10900..1091F | 5.0 | U10900.pdf |
Subsequent to version 5.0, the following characters have been added to the Phoenician script:
| Characters | Unicode Version | Documentation |
|---|---|---|
| 1091A..1091B | 5.2 | n3284.pdf/L2/07-206 |
| 1091F | 5.2 | n3284.pdf/L2/07-206 |
Documentation refers to ISO Working Group and Unicode proposals
A number of proposals for its inclusion have been submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and WG2:
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1992-10-30 Phoenician — Rick McGowan (Unicode Technical Report #3 R2
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1998-11-23 Revised proposal for encoding the Phoenician script in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N1932
, WG2 N1932_phoenician, L2/99-013) -
1999-09-24 Comments on proposals for the Universal Multiple-Octed Coded Character Set — Dr. W. Röllig (xlat. Küster) (WG2 N2097
, L2/99-224) -
1999-10-04 Response to comments on the question of encoding Old Semitic scripts in the UCS (N2097) — Michael Everson (WG2 N2133.htm
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2004-05-25 Miscellaneous Input on Phoenician Encoding Proposal — James Kass, Deborah W. Anderson, Dean Snyder, Reinhard G. Lehmann, Paul James Cowie, Peter Kirk, J Cowan, S. George Khalaf, Bob Richmond (L2/04-149
) -
2004-05-29 Final proposal for encoding the Phoenician script in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N2746
, L2/04-141) -
2004-05-31 Expert Feedback on Phoenician — Deborah Anderson (L2/04-177
) -
2004-06-04 Additional Support for Phoenician — Deborah Anderson (WG2 N2772
, L2/04-178) -
2004-06-04 Rebuttal to Final proposal for encoding the Phoenician script — Elaine Keown (L2/04-181
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2004-06-06 Additional examples of the Phoenician script in use — Michael Everson (WG2 N2787
, L2/04-190) -
2004-06-07 Phoenician recommendation — Rick McGowan (L2/04-187
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2004-06-07 Response to the revised “Final proposal for encoding the Phoenician script” (L2/04-141R2) — Peter Kirk (L2/04-206
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2004-06-07 Proposal to add Archaic Mediterranean Script block to ISO 10646 — Elaine Keown (L2/04-217
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2004-06-07 Statement of the Society of Biblical Literature on ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N2746R2 — Patrick Durusau (L2/04-226
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2004-06-07 Responses to Several Hebrew Related Items — Jony Rosenne (L2/04-213
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2004-06-08 Response to the Proposal to Encode Phoenician in Unicode — Dean Snyder (L2/04-218
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2005-01-19 Letters in support of Phoenician — Deborah Anderson (WG2 N2909
, L2/05-009) -
2007-07-25 Proposal to add two numbers for the Phoenician script to the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N3284
, L2/07-206) -
2012-11-03 Sorting all RTL scripts together — Roozbeh Pournader (L2/12-377
)