Unicode Status for Old South Arabian
In The Unicode Standard, Old South Arabian script implementation is discussed in Chapter 10 Middle East-II — Ancient Scripts
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The Old South Arabian script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 5.2. The script is encoded in the following block:
| Blocks | Character Range | Added in Unicode Version | Unicode Chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old South Arabian | 10A60..10A7F | 5.2 | U10A60.pdf |
A number of proposals for its inclusion have been submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and WG2:
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1992-10-29 Epigraphic South Arabian — Rick McGowan (Unicode Technical Report #3 R2
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1998-01-18 Proposal to encode South Arabian in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646 — Michael Everson (WG2 N1689.htm (not online), L2/98-036
) -
1999-07-23 Comments on proposals for the Universal Multiple-Octed Coded Character Set — Dr. W. Röllig (xlat. Küster) (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
) -
2007-07-30 Proposal to encode South Arabian Script — Sultan Maktari, Kamal Mansour (WG2 N3309
, L2/07-240) -
2007-09-10 Towards a proposal to encode the Old South Arabian script in the SMP — Michael Everson, Daniel Yacob (WG2 N3296
, L2/07-287) -
2008-01-28 Proposal to encode Old South Arabian Script — Sultan Maktari, Kamal Mansour (WG2 N3395
, L2/08-044) -
2008-09-30 Comments on Old South Arabian Names in N4034 — SEI / Deborah Anderson (WG2 N3517
, L2/08-348) -
2012-11-03 Sorting all RTL scripts together — Roozbeh Pournader (L2/12-377
)