Ogham (Unicode block)

Ogham is a Unicode block containing characters for representing Primitive Irish language inscriptions as codified in the Ogham script.

Ogham[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+168x
U+169x
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

Ogham
RangeU+1680..U+169F
(32 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsOgham
Major alphabetsIrish Ogham
Assigned29 code points
Unused3 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.0 (1999)29 (+29)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Ogham block:

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
3.0U+1680..169C29N1103REverson, Michael (16 November 1994), Proposal for encoding the Ogham script in ISO 10646
N1203Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (3 May 1995), "6.1.5.1", Unconfirmed minutes of SC2/WG2 Meeting 27, Geneva
X3L2/96-101N1443Everson, Michael; Jarnefors, Olle (4 August 1996), Allocating Ogham and Runes to the BMP: a strategy for making the BMP maximally useful
X3L2/96-123Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (18 December 1996), "3.2", Preliminary Minutes - UTC #71 & X3L2 #168 ad hoc meeting, San Diego - December 5-6, 1996
L2/97-049N1543Everson, Michael (27 March 1997), Proposed pDAM text for Ogham
N1577Everson, Michael (30 May 1997), Results of National Enquiry on Ogham
L2/97-155N1610Everson, Michael (1 July 1997), Text for pDAM for Ogham
L2/97-288N1603Umamaheswaran, V. S. (24 October 1997), "8.6", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997
L2/98-077N1695Paterson, Bruce (22 February 1998), Proposed Disposition of Comments on SC2 letter ballot on FPDAMs 16, 19, & 20 (Braille patterns, Runic, Ogham)
L2/98-134N1772Paterson, Bruce (6 April 1998), Revised Text of ISO 10646 Amendment 20 - Ogham
N1764Paterson, Bruce (6 April 1998), Disposition of Comments Report on SC 2 N2971: Amendment 20 - Ogham
L2/98-286N1703Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (2 July 1998), "6.2.3 FPDAM-19 on Runic and FPDAM-20 on Ogham", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20
L2/07-340Davis, Mark (6 October 2007), OGHAM SPACE MARK shouldn't be whitespace
L2/07-392Everson, Michael (17 October 2007), Irish comments on L2/07-340 "OGHAM SPACE MARK shouldn't be whitespace"
L2/07-345Moore, Lisa (25 October 2007), "Ogham Space Mark", UTC #113 Minutes
L2/08-142N3407Representation of Ogham Space, Tamil named sequences, 9 April 2008
L2/08-318N3453 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (13 August 2008), "M52.1", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52, Insert a dashed box around the current dash-looking glyph for 1680 OGHAM SPACE MARK, based on document N3407
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
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