Unicode 2.0 was released in
July 1996. It was defined by The
Unicode Consortium by The Unicode Standard, Version 2.0 Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley Developers Press, 1996. ISBN 0-201-48345-9. The previous version was
Unicode 1.1 and the next version is
Unicode 2.1.
More detailed changes can be found at http://www.unicode.org/Public/2.0-Update/ReadMe-2.0.14.txt
The most significant change was the removal of the 6,656 old Hangul Syllables (U+3400 to U+4DFF) and replacing them with 11,172 new characters in the Hangul Syllables code block. The reason this is significant is that The Unicode Consortium makes a big deal out of their promise never to remove a character.
New Code Blocks
7 new
code blocks were added in 2.0
U+0F00 to U+0FFF Tibetan 168/256
U+AC00 to U+D7AF Hangul Syllables 11172/11184
U+D800 to U+DB7F High Surrogates 896/896
U+DB80 to U+DBFF High Private Use Surrogates 128/128
U+DC00 to U+DFFF Low Surrogates 1024/1024
U+E000 to U+F8FF Private Use Area 6400/6400
U+F900 to U+FAFF CJK Compatibility Ideographs 302/512
New General Categories
7 new
General Categories were added in 2.0
- Mark, Enclosing (Me)
- Number, Letter (Nl)
- Punctuation, Connector (Pc)
- Symbol, Modifier (Sk)
- Other, Format (Cf)
- Other, Surrogate (Cs)
- Other, Private Use (Co)
New Characters
Excluding those in the new
code blocks, there were 33 new characters added in Unicode 2.0
Number of characters in each General Category :
Letter, Lowercase Ll : 1
Mark, Non-Spacing Mn : 31
Symbol, Currency Sc : 1
Number of characters in each Bidirectional Category :
LeftToRight L : 1
RightToLeft R : 31
EuropeanNumberTerminator ET : 1
The columns below should be interpreted as :
- The Unicode code for the character
- The character in question
- The Unicode name for the character
- The Unicode General Category for the character
- The Unicode Bidirectional Category for the character
If the characters below show up poorly, or not at all, see Unicode Support for possible solutions.
Hebrew
Cantillation marks
- U+0591 ֑ Hebrew accent etnahta Mn R
- U+0592 ֒ Hebrew accent segol Mn R
- U+0593 ֓ Hebrew accent shalshelet Mn R
- U+0594 ֔ Hebrew accent zaqef qatan Mn R
- U+0595 ֕ Hebrew accent zaqef gadol Mn R
- U+0596 ֖ Hebrew accent tipeha Mn R
- aka tarha
- U+0597 ֗ Hebrew accent revia Mn R
- U+0598 ֘ Hebrew accent zarqa Mn R
- aka tsinorit, zinorit; tsinor, zinor
- * This character is to be used when Zarqa or Tsinor are placed above, and also for Tsinorit.
- ref U+05AE Hebrew accent zinor (Hebrew)
- U+0599 ֙ Hebrew accent pashta Mn R
- U+059A ֚ Hebrew accent yetiv Mn R
- U+059B ֛ Hebrew accent tevir Mn R
- U+059C ֜ Hebrew accent geresh Mn R
- U+059D ֝ Hebrew accent geresh muqdam Mn R
- U+059E ֞ Hebrew accent gershayim Mn R
- U+059F ֟ Hebrew accent qarney para Mn R
- U+05A0 ֠ Hebrew accent telisha gedola Mn R
- U+05A1 ֡ Hebrew accent pazer Mn R
- U+05A3 ֣ Hebrew accent munah Mn R
- U+05A4 ֤ Hebrew accent mahapakh Mn R
- U+05A5 ֥ Hebrew accent merkha Mn R
- aka yored
- U+05A6 ֦ Hebrew accent merkha kefula Mn R
- U+05A7 ֧ Hebrew accent darga Mn R
- U+05A8 ֨ Hebrew accent qadma Mn R
- aka azla
- U+05A9 ֩ Hebrew accent telisha qetana Mn R
- U+05AA ֪ Hebrew accent yerah ben yomo Mn R
- aka galgal
- U+05AB ֫ Hebrew accent ole Mn R
- U+05AC ֬ Hebrew accent iluy Mn R
- U+05AD ֭ Hebrew accent dehi Mn R
- U+05AE ֮ Hebrew accent zinor Mn R
- aka tsinor; zarqa
- * This character is to be used when Zarqa or Tsinor are placed above left.
- ref U+0598 Hebrew accent zarqa (Hebrew)
- U+05AF ֯ Hebrew mark masora circle Mn R
Points and punctuation
- U+05C4 ׄ Hebrew mark upper dot Mn R
Latin Extended Additional
Latin general use extensions
- U+1E9B ẛ Latin small letter long s with dot above Ll L
- * in current use in Gaelic types (as glyph variant of 1E61)
Currency Symbols
Currency symbols
- U+20AB ₫ dong sign Sc ET
- * Vietnam
Altered Characters
In addition, 338 characters changed their
General category in 2.0, and one changed its
Bidirectional Category :
Basic Latin
U+0009
horizontal tabulation had its
Bidirectional Category changed from
OtherNeutrals to
SegmentSeparator
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