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Unicode Status for Ugaritic

In The Unicode Standard, Ugaritic script implementation is discussed in Chapter 11 Cuneiform and Hieroglyphs.

The Ugaritic script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 4.0. The script is encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
Ugaritic10380..1039F4.0U10380.pdf

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

  • 1992-10-29 Ugaritic Cuneiform — Rick McGowan (Unicode Technical Report #3 R2)

  • 1997-09-18 Proposal to encode Ugaritic Cuneiform in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646-2 — Michael Everson (WG2 N1640.htm, L2/97-270 (neither online))

  • 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)

  • 2000-02-15 Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode — Carl-Martin Bunz (L2/00-128)

  • 2000-04-26 Further comments on historic scripts — Carl-Martin Bunz (L2/00-153)

  • 2001-04-01 Proposal to encode Ugaritic in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N2338, L2/01-141)