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Unicode Status for Proto-Sinaitic

The Proto-Sinaitic script is not yet in Unicode. The script has a tentative allocation at U+108B0..U+108DF in the Roadmap to the SMP for the Unicode Standard.

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

  • 1998-01-18 Proposal to encode Sinaitic in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646 - 2 — Michael Everson (WG2 N1688, L2/98-035)

  • 1998-12-05 Proto-Sinaitic script — Michael Everson ( L2/99-069)

  • 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)

  • 2019-07-30 Revisiting the encoding of Proto-Sinaitic in Unicode — Anshuman Pandey (L2/19-299)

    • Recommendations to UTC #161 October 2019 on Script Proposals (L2/19-343) (See point 7.)

    • UTC #161 Minutes (L2/19-323) (See C.8 for decision and action items)