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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Blocks
Section titled “Blocks”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 |
Characters
Section titled “Characters”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
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:
- 1992-10-30 Phoenician — Rick McGowan (Unicode Technical Report #3 R2)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 2004-06-07 Response to the revised “Final proposal for encoding the Phoenician script” (L2/04-141R2) — Peter Kirk (L2/04-206)
- 2004-06-07 Proposal to add Archaic Mediterranean Script block to ISO 10646 — Elaine Keown (L2/04-217)
- 2004-06-07 Statement of the Society of Biblical Literature on ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N2746R2 — Patrick Durusau (L2/04-226)
- 2004-06-07 Responses to Several Hebrew Related Items — Jony Rosenne (L2/04-213)
- 2004-06-08 Response to the Proposal to Encode Phoenician in Unicode — Dean Snyder (L2/04-218
- 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)