Old Persian (Unicode block)

Old Persian is a Unicode block containing cuneiform characters for writing the Old Persian language of the Achaemenid Empire.

Old Persian^[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+103Ax	𐎠	𐎡	𐎢	𐎣	𐎤	𐎥	𐎦	𐎧	𐎨	𐎩	𐎪	𐎫	𐎬	𐎭	𐎮	𐎯
U+103Bx	𐎰	𐎱	𐎲	𐎳	𐎴	𐎵	𐎶	𐎷	𐎸	𐎹	𐎺	𐎻	𐎼	𐎽	𐎾	𐎿
U+103Cx	𐏀	𐏁	𐏂	𐏃					𐏈	𐏉	𐏊	𐏋	𐏌	𐏍	𐏎	𐏏
U+103Dx	𐏐	𐏑	𐏒	𐏓	𐏔	𐏕
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 11.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

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

Version	Final code points^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
4.1	U+103A0..103C3, 103C8..103D5	50	L2/97-269	N1639	Everson, Michael (1997-09-18), Proposal to encode Old Persian Cuneiform, Plane 1
			L2/99-224	N2097, N2025-2	Röllig, W. (1999-07-23), Comments on proposals for the Universal Multiple-Octed Coded Character Set
				N2133	Response to comments on the question of encoding Old Semitic scripts in the UCS (N2097), 1999-10-04
			L2/01-007		Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-12-21), "Old Persian cuneiform", Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode
			L2/02-009		Bunz, Carl-Martin (2001-11-23), 2nd Iranian Meeting Report
			L2/03-097	N2545	Everson, Michael (2002-12-03), Revised proposal to encode the Old Persian script in the UCS
			L2/03-149R	N2583R	Everson, Michael (2003-09-18), Final proposal to encode the Old Persian script in the UCS
			L2/05-289		Whistler, Ken (2005-10-06), Cuneiform property inconsistencies
↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.

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