Coptic is a Unicode block used with the Greek and Coptic block to write the Coptic language. Prior to version 4.1 of the Unicode Standard, the "Greek and Coptic" block was used exclusively to write Coptic text, but Greek and Coptic letter forms are contrastive in many scholarly works, necessitating their disunification. Any specifically Coptic letters in the Greek and Coptic block are not reproduced in the Coptic Unicode block.
| Coptic | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+2C80..U+2CFF (128 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Coptic |
| Major alphabets | Coptic |
| Assigned | 123 code points |
| Unused | 5 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 4.1 (2005) | 114 (+114) |
| 5.2 (2009) | 121 (+7) |
| 6.1 (2012) | 123 (+2) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Block
edit| 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+2C8x | Ⲁ | ⲁ | Ⲃ | ⲃ | Ⲅ | ⲅ | Ⲇ | ⲇ | Ⲉ | ⲉ | Ⲋ | ⲋ | Ⲍ | ⲍ | Ⲏ | ⲏ |
| U+2C9x | Ⲑ | ⲑ | Ⲓ | ⲓ | Ⲕ | ⲕ | Ⲗ | ⲗ | Ⲙ | ⲙ | Ⲛ | ⲛ | Ⲝ | ⲝ | Ⲟ | ⲟ |
| U+2CAx | Ⲡ | ⲡ | Ⲣ | ⲣ | Ⲥ | ⲥ | Ⲧ | ⲧ | Ⲩ | ⲩ | Ⲫ | ⲫ | Ⲭ | ⲭ | Ⲯ | ⲯ |
| U+2CBx | Ⲱ | ⲱ | Ⲳ | ⲳ | Ⲵ | ⲵ | Ⲷ | ⲷ | Ⲹ | ⲹ | Ⲻ | ⲻ | Ⲽ | ⲽ | Ⲿ | ⲿ |
| U+2CCx | Ⳁ | ⳁ | Ⳃ | ⳃ | Ⳅ | ⳅ | Ⳇ | ⳇ | Ⳉ | ⳉ | Ⳋ | ⳋ | Ⳍ | ⳍ | Ⳏ | ⳏ |
| U+2CDx | Ⳑ | ⳑ | Ⳓ | ⳓ | Ⳕ | ⳕ | Ⳗ | ⳗ | Ⳙ | ⳙ | Ⳛ | ⳛ | Ⳝ | ⳝ | Ⳟ | ⳟ |
| U+2CEx | Ⳡ | ⳡ | Ⳣ | ⳣ | ⳤ | ⳥ | ⳦ | ⳧ | ⳨ | ⳩ | ⳪ | Ⳬ | ⳬ | Ⳮ | ⳮ | ⳯ |
| U+2CFx | ⳰ | ⳱ | Ⳳ | ⳳ | ⳹ | ⳺ | ⳻ | ⳼ | ⳽ | ⳾ | ⳿ | |||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
History
editThe following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Coptic block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.1 | U+2C80..2CEA, 2CF9..2CFF | 114 | L2/98-022 (html, pdf) | N1658 | Everson, Michael (1997-12-08), Proposal to encode Coptic in ISO/IEC 10646 |
| L2/98-039 | Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1998-02-24), "3.A.4.a. Disunificaiton of Coptic", Preliminary Minutes - UTC #74 & L2 #171, Mountain View, CA - December 5, 1997 | ||||
| L2/98-070 | Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold, "3.A.2. item b. Coptic", Minutes of the joint UTC and L2 meeting from the meeting in Cupertino, February 25-27, 1998 | ||||
| L2/98-286 | N1703 | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), "8.9.2", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20 | |||
| L2/00-128 | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode | ||||
| L2/00-411 | Emmel, Stephen (2000-10-05), Coptic -- resolutions from the meeting in Leiden, September 2, 2000 | ||||
| L2/02-051 | McGowan, Rick (2002-02-03), Coptic Disunification | ||||
| L2/02-205 | N2444 | Everson, Michael; Mansour, Kamal (2002-05-08), Coptic supplementation in the BMP | |||
| L2/02-166R2 | Moore, Lisa (2002-08-09), "Consensus 91-C12", UTC #91 Minutes | ||||
| L2/03-208 | Constable, Peter (2003-06-13), Proposal to Encode Coptic Letter Eie for use in Textual Apparatus | ||||
| L2/03-283 | N2611 | Everson, Michael (2003-08-24), Proposal to add the Coptic alphabet to the BMP of the UCS | |||
| L2/03-327 | N2636 | Everson, Michael (2003-10-01), Revised proposal to add the Coptic alphabet to the BMP of the UCS | |||
| L2/04-053 | Emmel, Stephen (2004-01-26), Changes to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N2636 and N2676 recommended by the International Association for Coptic Studies | ||||
| L2/04-068 | Mansour, Kamal (2004-02-02), Coptic Comments | ||||
| L2/04-130 | N2744 | Everson, Michael; Emmel, Stephen (2004-04-20), Revision of the Coptic block under ballot for the BMP of the UCS | |||
| N2824 | Updated charts for Coptic N2744, 2004-06-22 | ||||
| 5.2 | U+2CEB..2CF1 | 7 | L2/07-085R | N3222R | Everson, Michael; Emmel, Stephen; Marjanen, Antti; Dunderberg, Ismo; Baines, John; Pedro, Susana; Emiliano, António (2007-03-15), Proposal to add additional characters for Coptic and Latin in the UCS |
| L2/07-118R2 | Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), "111-C17", UTC #111 Minutes | ||||
| L2/07-268 | N3253 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.30", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27 | |||
| 6.1 | U+2CF2..2CF3 | 2 | L2/10-290 | N3873R | Everson, Michael; Emmel, Stephen; Richter, Siegfried G.; Pedro, Susana; Emiliano, António (2010-08-05), Proposal to add additional characters for Greek, Latin, and Coptic |
| L2/10-221 | Moore, Lisa (2010-08-23), "C.25", UTC #124 / L2 #221 Minutes | ||||
| L2/10-348 | N3912 | Everson, 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 | |||
| N3903 (pdf, doc) | "M57.02e", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31 | ||||
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References
edit- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.