Greek and Coptic
| Greek and Coptic | |
|---|---|
| Range |
U+0370..U+03FF (144 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts |
Greek (117 char.) Coptic (14 char.) Common (4 char.) |
| Major alphabets | Greek |
| Assigned | 135 code points |
| Unused | 9 reserved code points |
| Source standards | ISO 8859-7 |
| Unicode version history | |
| 1.0.0 | 112 (+112) |
| 1.0.1 | 103 (-9) |
| 1.1 | 105 (+2) |
| 3.0 | 110 (+5) |
| 3.1 | 112 (+2) |
| 3.2 | 115 (+3) |
| 4.0 | 120 (+5) |
| 4.1 | 124 (+4) |
| 5.0 | 127 (+3) |
| 5.1 | 134 (+7) |
| 7.0 | 135 (+1) |
| Note: [1][2][3] | |
Greek and Coptic is the Unicode block for representing modern (monotonic) Greek. It was originally used for writing Coptic, using the similar Greek letters, in addition to the uniquely Coptic additions. Beginning with version 4.1 of the Unicode Standard, a separate Coptic block has been included in Unicode, allowing for mixed Greek/Coptic text that is stylistically contrastive, as is convention in scholarly works. Writing polytonic Greek requires the use of combining characters or the precomposed vowel + tone characters in the Greek Extended character block.
Block
| Greek and Coptic[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+037x | Ͱ | ͱ | Ͳ | ͳ | ʹ | ͵ | Ͷ | ͷ | ͺ | ͻ | ͼ | ͽ | ; | Ϳ | ||
| U+038x | ΄ | ΅ | Ά | · | Έ | Ή | Ί | Ό | Ύ | Ώ | ||||||
| U+039x | ΐ | Α | Β | Γ | Δ | Ε | Ζ | Η | Θ | Ι | Κ | Λ | Μ | Ν | Ξ | Ο |
| U+03Ax | Π | Ρ | Σ | Τ | Υ | Φ | Χ | Ψ | Ω | Ϊ | Ϋ | ά | έ | ή | ί | |
| U+03Bx | ΰ | α | β | γ | δ | ε | ζ | η | θ | ι | κ | λ | μ | ν | ξ | ο |
| U+03Cx | π | ρ | ς | σ | τ | υ | φ | χ | ψ | ω | ϊ | ϋ | ό | ύ | ώ | Ϗ |
| U+03Dx | ϐ | ϑ | ϒ | ϓ | ϔ | ϕ | ϖ | ϗ | Ϙ | ϙ | Ϛ | ϛ | Ϝ | ϝ | Ϟ | ϟ |
| U+03Ex | Ϡ | ϡ | Ϣ | ϣ | Ϥ | ϥ | Ϧ | ϧ | Ϩ | ϩ | Ϫ | ϫ | Ϭ | ϭ | Ϯ | ϯ |
| U+03Fx | ϰ | ϱ | ϲ | ϳ | ϴ | ϵ | ϶ | Ϸ | ϸ | Ϲ | Ϻ | ϻ | ϼ | Ͻ | Ͼ | Ͽ |
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
History
In Unicode 1.0.1, a number of changes were made to this block in order to make Unicode 1.0.1 a proper subset of ISO 10646.[1][2][3]
- The small stigma, digamma, koppa and sampi were withdrawn for further study. These characters were added back in in Unicode 3.0.0.
- The non-spacing dasia pneumata, psili pneumata and tonos were merged with non-spacing reversed comma above, comma above and vertical line above in the Combining Diacritical Marks block. The last was replaced by the spacing tonos, while in Unicode 5.1.0 the former two were replaced by the small heta and the capital archaic sampi.
- The non-spacing iota below and diaeresis tonos were renamed and moved to the Combining Diacritical Marks block. The latter was replaced by the spacing diaeresis tonos, while the former was replaced by the capital heta in Unicode 5.1.0.
- The Greek question mark, the upper and lower numeral signs and the aforementioned spacing tonos and diaeresis tonos, as well as the spacing iota below were moved to new positions within the block. They were replaced by the kai, or Greek &, (in Unicode 3.0.0), the capital and small archaic koppa (3.2.0), the yot (1.1.0), an alternative capital theta and the lunate epsilon (both 3.1.0) respectively.
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Greek and Coptic block:
| Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | U+0374..0375, 037A, 037E, 0384..0386, 0388..038A, 038C, 038E..03A1, 03A3..03CE, 03D0..03D6, 03DA, 03DC, 03DE, 03E0, 03E2..03F2 | 103 | (to be determined) | ||
| 1.1 | U+0387, 03F3 | 2 | (to be determined) | ||
| 3.0 | U+03D7, 03DB, 03DD, 03DF, 03E1 | 5 | L2/98-210 | N1743 | Everson, Michael (1998-05-25), Additional Greek characters for the UCS |
| 3.1 | U+03F4..03F5 | 2 | L2/00-119[lower-alpha 2] | N2191R | Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-04-19), Encoding Additional Mathematical Symbols in Unicode |
| 3.2 | U+03D8..03D9, 03F6 | 3 | L2/99-018 | N1938 | Everson, Michael (1998-12-12), On GREEK LETTER KOPPA |
| L2/99-077.1 | N1975 | Irish Comments on SC 2 N 3210, 1999-01-20 | |||
| L2/00-119[lower-alpha 2] | N2191R | Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-04-19), Encoding Additional Mathematical Symbols in Unicode | |||
| 4.0 | U+03F7..03F8 | 2 | L2/01-007 | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-12-21), "Bactrian", Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode | |
| L2/02-009 | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2001-11-23), "Bactrian", 2nd Iranian Meeting Report | ||||
| L2/02-056 | N2411 | Everson, Michael (2002-01-30), Proposal to add two Greek letters for Bactrian to the UCS | |||
| L2/02-166R2 | Moore, Lisa (2002-08-09), "Scripts and New Characters - Bactrian", UTC #91 Minutes | ||||
| U+03F9 | 1 | L2/02-314R[lower-alpha 3] | N2512 | Pantelia, Maria (2002-08-21), Proposal to add the Greek Capital Lunate Sigma Symbol to the UCS | |
| U+03FA..03FB | 2 | L2/02-313R2[lower-alpha 3] | N2522 | Pantelia, Maria (2002-11-07), Proposal to encode the Archaic Greek Letter San and Greek Small Letter San in the UCS | |
| L2/04-034 | March, Jeremy; Kirk, Peter; Rourke, Patrick; Anderson, Deborah (2004-01-23), Request to Change Greek Collation Order for SAN | ||||
| 4.1 | U+03FC | 1 | L2/03-157 | Pantelia, Maria (2003-05-19), Additional Beta Code Characters not in Unicode (WIP) | |
| L2/03-188R | N2612-5 | Pantelia, Maria (2003-06-11), Proposal to encode the Greek Rho with Stroke Symbol in the UCS | |||
| U+03FD..03FF | 3 | L2/02-031 | Anderson, Deborah (2002-01-21), TLG Miscellanea Proposal | ||
| L2/02-033 | Anderson, Deborah (2002-01-21), TLG Unicode Proposal (draft) | ||||
| L2/02-053 | Anderson, Deborah (2002-02-04), Description of TLG Documents | ||||
| L2/02-273 | Pantelia, Maria (2002-07-31), TLG Unicode Proposal | ||||
| L2/02-287 | Pantelia, Maria (2002-08-09), Proposal Summary Form accompanying TLG Unicode Proposal (L2/02-273) | ||||
| L2/02-312R | Pantelia, Maria (2002-11-07), Proposal to encode additional Greek editorial and punctuation characters in the UCS | ||||
| L2/03-324 | N2642 | Pantelia, Maria (2003-10-06), Proposal to encode additional Greek editorial and punctuation characters in the UCS | |||
| 5.0 | U+037B..037D | 3 | N2942 | Freytag, Asmus; Whistler, Ken (2005-08-12), Proposal to add nine lowercase characters | |
| 5.1 | U+0370..0373, 0376..0377 | 6 | L2/04-388 | Nicholas, Nick (2004-11-10), Proposal to add Greek Letter Lowercase Heta and Greek Letter Capital Heta to the UCS | |
| L2/04-389 | Nicholas, Nick (2004-11-10), Epigraphical Greek Letters: Request for preliminary opinion | ||||
| L2/05-002 | Nicholas, Nick (2005-01-01), Proposal to add Greek Letter Lowercase Heta and Greek Letter Capital Heta (Updated fonts 2005-04-28) | ||||
| L2/05-003R | Nicholas, Nick (2005-01-01), Proposal to add Greek epigraphical letters | ||||
| L2/05-054 | Anderson, Deborah (2005-01-31), Feedback on Proposals for Tack Hetas and Greek Epigraphical Letters (L2/05-002, L2/05-003) | ||||
| L2/05-098 | Nicholas, Nick (2005-04-03), Proposal to add Greek epigraphical characters to the UCS | ||||
| L2/05-108R | Moore, Lisa (2005-08-26), "C.10", UTC #103 Minutes | ||||
| U+03CF | 1 | L2/06-266 | N3122 | Everson, Michael (2006-08-06), Proposal to add Latin letters and a Greek symbol to the UCS | |
| 7.0 | U+037F | 1 | L2/10-474 | N3997 | Bobeck, Michael (2010-12-12), Proposal to encode GREEK CAPITAL LETTER YOT |
See also
References
- 1 2 "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
- 1 2 "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
- 1 2 "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
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