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Unicode Status for Old Sogdian

In The Unicode Standard, Old Sogdian script implementation is discussed in Chapter 14: South and Central Asia-III — Ancient Scripts.

The Old Sogdian script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 11.0. The script is encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
Old Sogdian10F00.10F2F11.0U10F00.pdf

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

  • 2015-11-03 Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Old Sogdian Script in Unicode — Anshuman Pandey (L2/15-089)

    • UTC #146 Minutes (L2/16-004) (See D.4 for decision and action items)

  • 2016-12-31 Proposal to encode the Old Sogdian script in Unicode — Anshuman Pandey (L2/16-312)

    • Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals (L2/17-037) (See point 13.)

    • UTC #150 Minutes (L2/17-016) (See D.11 for decision and action items)