Supplemental Punctuation

Supplemental Punctuation
Range U+2E00..U+2E7F
(128 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Common
Assigned 79 code points
Unused 49 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.1 26 (+26)
5.1 49 (+23)
5.2 50 (+1)
6.1 60 (+10)
7.0 67 (+7)
9.0 69 (+2)
10.0 74 (+5)
11.0 79 (+5)
Note: [1][2]

Supplemental Punctuation is a Unicode block containing historic and specialized punctuation characters, including biblical editorial symbols, ancient Greek punctuation, and German dictionary marks.

Additional punctuation characters are in the General Punctuation block and sprinkled in dozens of other Unicode blocks.

Block

Supplemental Punctuation[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+2E0x ⸀ ⸁ ⸂ ⸃ ⸄ ⸅ ⸆ ⸇ ⸈ ⸉ ⸊ ⸋ ⸌ ⸍ ⸎ ⸏
U+2E1x ⸐ ⸑ ⸒ ⸓ ⸔ ⸕ ⸖ ⸗ ⸘ ⸙ ⸚ ⸛ ⸜ ⸝ ⸞ ⸟
U+2E2x ⸠ ⸡ ⸢ ⸣ ⸤ ⸥ ⸦ ⸧ ⸨ ⸩ ⸪ ⸫ ⸬ ⸭ ⸮ ⸯ
U+2E3x ⸰ ⸱ ⸲ ⸳ ⸴ ⸵ ⸶ ⸷ ⸸ ⸹  2M 
⸺		  3M 
⸻		 ⸼ ⸽ ⸾ ⸿
U+2E4x ⹀ ⹁ ⹂ ⹃ ⹄ ⹅ ⹆ ⹇ ⹈ ⹉ ⹊ ⹋ ⹌ ⹍ ⹎
U+2E5x
U+2E6x
U+2E7x
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 Supplemental Punctuation block:

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
4.1U+2E00..2E1623L2/02-033Anderson, Deborah (2002-01-21), TLG Unicode Proposal (draft)
L2/02-053Anderson, Deborah (2002-02-04), Description of TLG Documents
L2/02-273Pantelia, Maria (2002-07-31), TLG Unicode Proposal
L2/02-287Pantelia, Maria (2002-08-09), Proposal Summary Form accompanying TLG Unicode Proposal (L2/02-273)
L2/02-312RPantelia, Maria (2002-11-07), Proposal to encode additional Greek editorial and punctuation characters in the UCS
L2/02-317RPantelia, Maria (2002-11-07), Proposal to encode New Testament editorial characters in the UCS
L2/03-074R2N2612-1Pantelia, Maria (2003-06-11), Proposal to encode New Testament editorial characters in the UCS
L2/03-324N2642Pantelia, Maria (2003-10-06), Proposal to encode additional Greek editorial and punctuation characters in the UCS
L2/03-356R2Moore, Lisa (2003-10-22), "97-C12", UTC #97 Minutes
L2/03-379N2675Everson, Michael (2003-10-22), Proposal to add one punctuation character to the UCS
U+2E171L2/03-283N2611Everson, Michael (2003-08-24), Proposal to add the Coptic alphabet to the BMP of the UCS
L2/03-327N2636Everson, Michael (2003-10-01), Revised proposal to add the Coptic alphabet to the BMP of the UCS
L2/03-329N2639Everson, Michael (2003-10-03), On the use of HYPHEN and DOUBLE HYPHEN in Fraktur typography
L2/03-354N2655Freytag, Asmus (2003-10-10), Proposal -- Symbols used in Dictionaries
L2/03-338N2647Everson, Michael (2003-10-13), Further discussion of the DOUBLE OBLIQUE HYPHEN
L2/03-360N2657Freytag, Asmus (2003-10-15), Additional information on typesetting Fraktur
L2/03-347Anderson, Deborah (2003-10-19), Background on DOUBLE OBLIQUE HYPHEN
L2/03-356R2Moore, Lisa (2003-10-22), "97-C14", UTC #97 Minutes
L2/04-053Emmel, Stephen (2004-01-26), Changes to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N2636 and N2676 recommended by the International Association for Coptic Studies
L2/04-130N2744Everson, Michael; Emmel, Stephen (2004-04-20), Revision of the Coptic block under ballot for the BMP of the UCS
N2824Updated charts for Coptic N2744, 2004-06-22
U+2E1C..2E1D2L2/04-283N2833Everson, Michael (2004-06-23), Revisions to the N'Ko script for the PDAM code chart
5.1U+2E181L2/05-086N2935Everson, Michael (2005-04-01), Proposal to add INVERTED INTERROBANG to the UCS
L2/05-141McGowan, Rick (2005-05-10), "C.4", Scripts Subcommittee Meeting Report
L2/05-337Abril, Amadeu Abril i (2005-10-23), Letter from Amadeu Abril i Abril in support of inverted interrobang
U+2E191L2/06-269N3218Perry, David J. (2006-08-01), Proposal to Add Additional Ancient Roman Characters to UCS
L2/15-050R[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3]Davis, Mark; et al. (2015-01-29), Additional variation selectors for emoji
U+2E1A..2E1B, 2E1E..2E2E, 2E3020L2/05-183N2957Everson, Michael; Haugen, Odd Einar; Emiliano, António; Pedro, Susana; Grammel, Florian; Baker, Peter; Stötzner, Andreas; Dohnicht, Marcus; Luft, Diana (2005-08-02), Preliminary proposal to add medievalist characters to the UCS
L2/07-004N3193Everson, Michael; Baker, Peter; Dohnicht, Marcus; Emiliano, António; Haugen, Odd Einar; Pedro, Susana; Perry, David J.; Pournader, Roozbeh (2007-01-09), Proposal to add Medievalist and Iranianist punctuation characters to the UCS
L2/07-015Moore, Lisa (2007-02-08), "C.14", UTC #110 Minutes
L2/07-345Moore, Lisa (2007-10-25), "113-C12", UTC #113 Minutes
U+2E2F1L2/06-042Cleminson, Ralph (2006-01-26), Proposal for additional Cyrillic characters
L2/06-181Anderson, Deborah (2006-05-08), Responses to the UTC regarding L2/06-042, Proposal for Additional Cyrillic Characters
L2/06-359Cleminson, Ralph (2006-10-31), Proposal for additional Cyrillic characters
L2/07-003N3194Everson, Michael; Birnbaum, David; Cleminson, Ralph; Derzhanski, Ivan; Dorosh, Vladislav; Kryukov, Alexey; Paliga, Sorin; Ruppel, Klaas (2007-01-12), Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS
L2/07-055Cleminson, Ralph (2007-01-19), Comments on Additional Cyrillic Characters (L2/07-003 = WG2 N3194)
5.2U+2E311L2/07-258Whistler, Ken (2007-08-02), Middle Dots and Don'ts
L2/07-260Freytag, Asmus (2007-08-05), Non-blank spaces
L2/07-225Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), "B.14.6", UTC #112 Minutes
L2/07-320N3347Proposal to Encode WORD SEPARATOR MIDDLE DOT, 2007-09-18
6.1U+2E32, 2E35..2E396L2/09-425N3740Everson, Michael (2009-12-05), Proposal to encode six punctuation characters in the UCS
U+2E33..2E342L2/10-290N3873REverson, Michael; Emmel, Stephen; Richter, Siegfried G.; Pedro, Susana; Emiliano, António (2010-08-05), Proposal to add additional characters for Greek, Latin, and Coptic
L2/10-348N3912Everson, Michael; Emmel, Stephen; Richter, Siegfried G.; Pedro, Susana; Emiliano, António (2010-09-21), Revised proposal to add additional characters for Greek, Latin, and Coptic to the UCS
L2/11-057N3984Pentzlin, Karl (2011-02-02), Notes on the naming of some characters proposed in the FCD of ISO/IEC 10646:2012
U+2E3A..2E3B2L2/10-037N3770Pentzlin, Karl (2010-02-10), Proposal to encode two dashes required by the Chicago Manual of Style
7.0U+2E3C1L2/10-272R2N3895Anderson, Van (2010-08-12), Proposal to include Duployan Shorthands and Chinook script and Shorthand Format Controls in UCS
U+2E3D..2E3E2L2/10-357N3914Proposal to add characters used in Lithuanian dialectology to the UCS, 2010-10-29
L2/11-135Tumasonis, Vladas; Pentzlin, Karl (2011-05-02), Revised proposal to add characters used in Lithuanian dialectology
L2/11-189Whistler, Ken; Constable, Peter (2011-05-11), Review of Characters for Lithuanian Dialectology
L2/11-191Comments on N3914 - Characters for Lithuanian Dialectology, 2011-05-13
L2/11-223N4070Tumasonis, Vladas; Pentzlin, Karl (2011-05-24), Second revised proposal to add characters used in Lithuanian dialectology to the UCS
L2/11-248N4116Pentzlin, Karl (2011-06-09), Report on the ad hoc re "Lithuanian dialectology" (SC2/WG2 N4070) held during the SC2/WG2 meeting at Helsinki
U+2E3F1L2/11-052RSuignard, Michel (2011-02-15), Wingdings and Webdings symbols - Preliminary study
N4239Suignard, Michel (2011-02-16), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4201 (PDAM text for Amendment 1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 3rd edition)
L2/11-149Suignard, Michel (2011-05-09), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings symbols
L2/11-196N4022Suignard, Michel (2011-05-21), Revised Wingdings proposal
L2/11-247N4115Suignard, Michel (2011-06-08), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
L2/11-344N4143Suignard, Michel (2011-09-28), Updated proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
N4363Suignard, Michel (2012-10-13), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
L2/12-368N4384Suignard, Michel (2012-11-06), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
L2/12-086Requests regarding the Wingdings/Webdings characters in ISO/IEC 10646 PDAM 1.2, 2012-12-27
U+2E401L2/03-283N2611Everson, Michael (2003-08-24), Proposal to add the Coptic alphabet to the BMP of the UCS
L2/03-327N2636Everson, Michael (2003-10-01), Revised proposal to add the Coptic alphabet to the BMP of the UCS
L2/03-329N2639Everson, Michael (2003-10-03), On the use of HYPHEN and DOUBLE HYPHEN in Fraktur typography
L2/03-338N2647Everson, Michael (2003-10-13), Further discussion of the DOUBLE OBLIQUE HYPHEN
L2/03-360N2657Freytag, Asmus (2003-10-15), Additional information on typesetting Fraktur
L2/03-347Anderson, Deborah (2003-10-19), Background on DOUBLE OBLIQUE HYPHEN
L2/04-053Emmel, Stephen (2004-01-26), Changes to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N2636 and N2676 recommended by the International Association for Coptic Studies
L2/10-162Pentzlin, Karl (2010-05-04), Proposal to encode a punctuation mark "Double Hyphen"
L2/10-214Freytag, Asmus (2010-06-17), Oblique hyphen vs. Double Hyphen
L2/10-361N3917Pentzlin, Karl (2010-09-28), Revised Proposal to encode a punctuation mark "Double Hyphen"
L2/11-038N3983Revised Proposal to encode a punctuation mark "Double Hyphen", 2011-01-17
U+2E41..2E42[lower-alpha 4]2L2/09-240N3664Everson, Michael; Szelp, André Szabolcs (2009-07-23), Proposal for encoding generic punctuation used with the Hungarian Runic script
L2/09-292N3670Hosszú, Gábor (2009-08-08), Proposal for encoding generic punctuation used with the Szekler Hungarian Rovas script
9.0U+2E431L2/13-164Cleminson, Ralph; Birnbaum, David (2013-07-25), Feedback from Experts on Cyrillic proposals
L2/13-140Andreev, Aleksandr; Shardt, Yuri; Simmons, Nikita (2013-09-23), Proposal to Encode a Slavonic Punctuation Mark
L2/13-212Anderson, Deborah (2013-11-01), Expert Feedback on L2/13-140 SLAVONIC PARAGRAPHOS
L2/13-238N4534Andreev, Aleksandr; Shardt, Yuri; Simmons, Nikita (2014-02-04), Proposal to Encode a Slavonic Punctuation Mark in Unicode
U+2E441L2/14-157N4595Kalvesmaki, Joel (2014-07-18), Proposal to encode GREEK BYZANTINE DOUBLE SUSPENSION MARK
10.0U+2E45..2E495L2/15-173Andreev, Aleksandr; Shardt, Yuri; Simmons, Nikita (2015-07-29), Proposal to Encode some Additional Symbols used in Church Slavonic Text
11.0U+2E4A..2E4E5L2/07-004N3193Everson, Michael; Baker, Peter; Dohnicht, Marcus; Emiliano, António; Haugen, Odd Einar; Pedro, Susana; Perry, David J.; Pournader, Roozbeh (2007-01-09), Proposal to add Medievalist and Iranianist punctuation characters to the UCS
L2/16-037Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-01-22), "1. Latin", Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals
L2/15-327RN4704REverson, Michael; Baker, Peter; Grammel, Florian; Haugen, Odd Einar (2016-01-25), Proposal to add Medievalist punctuation characters
L2/16-125N4726Everson, Michael; Baker, Peter; Grammel, Florian; Haugen, Odd Einar (2016-05-04), Revised Proposal to add Medievalist punctuation characters
L2/16-123"Feedback on medieval punctuation", Comments on Public Review Issues (Jan 22, 2016 - May 03, 2016), 2016-05-05
L2/16-156Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-05-06), "1. Latin", Recommendations to UTC #147 May 2016 on Script Proposals
L2/16-219Anderson, Deborah (2016-07-30), Feedback and Evidence on Medievalist punctuation characters
L2/16-220Everson, Michael; Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2016-08-01), Proposal for Medieval Comma
L2/16-235Everson, Michael; Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2016-08-05), Proposal to encode PARAGRAPHUS and PUNCTUS ELEVATUS
L2/16-203Moore, Lisa (2016-08-18), "C.14.2, C.14.3", UTC #148 Minutes
  1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
  2. ↑ See also L2/13-207, L2/14-054, L2/14-063, L2/15-051.html, L2/15-051.txt
  3. ↑ Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents
  4. ↑ Refer to the history section of the Old Hungarian block for additional Old Hungarian-related documents

See also

References

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