Unicode 4.1 (idea)

Unicode 4.1 was released in 2005. The previous version was Unicode 4.0 and the next is Unicode 5.0.

All the gory details can be found at http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.1.0/

Unicode 4.1 adds 1273 new characters, most of which are in the 20 new code blocks.

There are eight new scripts supported in 4.1 : New Tai Lue, Buginese, Glagolitic, Coptic, Tifinagh, Syloti Nagri, Old Persian and Kharoshthi. Coptic used to be lumped in with Greek in the Greek and Coptic code block, but now has its own identity.

The changes from 4.0.1 include the following.

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New Code Blocks

20 new code blocks were added in 4.1

U+0750 to U+077F   Arabic Supplement 30/48
U+1380 to U+139F   Ethiopic Supplement 26/32
U+1980 to U+19DF   New Tai Lue 80/96
U+1A00 to U+1A1F   Buginese 30/32
U+1D80 to U+1DBF   Phonetic Extensions Supplement 64/64
U+1DC0 to U+1DFF   Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement 4/64
U+2C00 to U+2C5F   Glagolitic 94/96
U+2C80 to U+2CFF   Coptic 114/128
U+2D00 to U+2D2F   Georgian Supplement 38/48
U+2D30 to U+2D7F   Tifinagh 55/80
U+2D80 to U+2DDF   Ethiopic Extended 79/96
U+2E00 to U+2E7F   Supplemental Punctuation 26/128
U+31C0 to U+31EF   CJK Basic Strokes 16/48
U+A700 to U+A71F   Modifier Tone Letters 23/32
U+A800 to U+A82F   Syloti Nagri 44/48
U+FE10 to U+FE1F   Vertical Forms 10/16
U+10140 to U+1018F   Ancient Greek Numbers 75/80
U+103A0 to U+103DF   Old Persian 50/64
U+10A00 to U+10A5F   Kharoshthi 65/96
U+1D200 to U+1D24F   Ancient Greek Musical Notation 70/80

 

New Characters

Excluding those in the new code blocks, there were 280 new characters added in Unicode 4.1

Number of characters in each General Category :

Letter, Uppercase      Lu :  9
Letter, Lowercase      Ll : 30
Letter, Modifier       Lm :  7
Letter, Other          Lo :142
Mark, Non-Spacing      Mn : 16
Number, Decimal Digit  Nd :  1
Punctuation, Open      Ps :  1
Punctuation, Close     Pe :  1
Punctuation, Other     Po : 14
Symbol, Math           Sm :  5
Symbol, Currency       Sc :  5
Symbol, Other          So : 49

Number of characters in each Bidirectional Category :

Left To Right                 L :192
Right To Left                 R :  1
Right To Left Arabic         AL :  2
European Number Terminator   ET :  4
Non Spacing Mark            NSM : 16
Other Neutral                ON : 65

The columns below should be interpreted as :

1. The Unicode code for the character
2. The character in question
3. The Unicode name for the character
4. The Unicode General Category for the character
5. The Unicode Bidirectional Category for the character

If the characters below show up poorly, or not at all, see Unicode Support for possible solutions.

 

Latin Extended B

     

U+0237   ȷ   Latin small letter dotless j Ll L

U+0238   ȸ   Latin small letter db digraph Ll L

U+0239   ȹ   Latin small letter qp digraph Ll L

U+023A   Ⱥ   Latin capital letter A with stroke Lu L

U+023B   Ȼ   Latin capital letter C with stroke Lu L

U+023C   ȼ   Latin small letter C with stroke Ll L

U+023D   Ƚ   Latin capital letter L with bar Lu L

U+023E   Ⱦ   Latin capital letter T with diagonal stroke Lu L

U+023F   ȿ   Latin small letter S with swash tail Ll L

U+0240   ɀ   Latin small letter Z with swash tail Ll L

U+0241   Ɂ   Latin capital letter glottal stop Lu L

 

Combining Diacritical Marks

U+0358   ͘   combining dot above right Mn NSM

U+0359   ͙   combining asterisk below Mn NSM

U+035A   ͚   combining double ring below Mn NSM

U+035B   ͛   combining zigzag above Mn NSM

U+035C   ͜   combining double breve below Mn NSM

 

Greek and Coptic

U+03FC   ϼ   Greek rho with stroke symbol Ll ON

U+03FD   Ͻ   Greek capital reversed lunate sigma symbol Lu L

U+03FE   Ͼ   Greek capital dotted lunate sigma symbol Lu L

U+03FF   Ͽ   Greek capital reversed dotted lunate sigma symbol Lu L

 

Cyrillic

     Extended Cyrillic

U+04F6   Ӷ   Cyrillic capital letter ghe with descender Lu L

U+04F7   ӷ   Cyrillic small letter ghe with descender Ll L

 

Hebrew

     Cantillation marks

U+05A2   ֢   Hebrew accent atnah hafukh Mn NSM

     Points and punctuation

U+05BA   ֺ   Hebrew point qamats qatan Mn NSM

     

U+05C5   ׅ   Hebrew mark lower dot Mn NSM

U+05C6   ׆   Hebrew punctuation nun hafukha Po R

 

Arabic

U+060B   ؋   afghani sign Sc AL

     Punctuation

U+061E   ؞   Arabic triple dot punctuation mark Po AL

     

U+0659   ٙ   Arabic zwarakay Mn NSM

U+065A   ٚ   Arabic vowel sign small v above Mn NSM

U+065B   ٛ   Arabic vowel sign inverted small v above Mn NSM

U+065C   ٜ   Arabic vowel sign dot below Mn NSM

U+065D   ٝ   Arabic reversed damma Mn NSM

U+065E   ٞ   Arabic fatha with two dots Mn NSM

 

Devanagari

U+097D   ॽ   Devanagari letter glottal stop Lo L

 

Bengali

     Various signs

U+09CE   ৎ   Bengali letter khanda ta Lo L

 

Tamil

     Consonants

U+0BB6   ஶ   Tamil letter sha Lo L

     Digits

U+0BE6   ௦   Tamil digit zero Nd L

ref U+0030   0   digit zero (Basic Latin)

 

Tibetan

     

U+0FD0   ࿐   Tibetan mark bska shog gi mgo rgyan Po L

U+0FD1   ࿑   Tibetan mark mnyam yig gi mgo rgyan Po L

 

Georgian

U+10F9   ჹ   Georgian letter turned gan Lo L

U+10FA   ჺ   Georgian letter ain Lo L

U+10FC   ჼ   modifier letter Georgian nar Lm L

 

Ethiopic

     Syllables

U+1207   ሇ   Ethiopic syllable hoa Lo L

U+1247   ቇ   Ethiopic syllable qoa Lo L

U+1287   ኇ   Ethiopic syllable xoa Lo L

U+12AF   ኯ   Ethiopic syllable koa Lo L

U+12CF   ዏ   Ethiopic syllable woa Lo L

U+12EF   ዯ   Ethiopic syllable yoa Lo L

U+130F   ጏ   Ethiopic syllable goa Lo L

U+131F   ጟ   Ethiopic syllable ggwaa Lo L

U+1347   ፇ   Ethiopic syllable tzoa Lo L

     

U+135F   ፟   Ethiopic combining gemination mark Mn NSM

U+1360   ፠   Ethiopic section mark Po L

 

Phonetic Extensions

U+1D6C   ᵬ   Latin small letter B with middle tilde Ll L

U+1D6D   ᵭ   Latin small letter D with middle tilde Ll L

U+1D6E   ᵮ   Latin small letter F with middle tilde Ll L

U+1D6F   ᵯ   Latin small letter M with middle tilde Ll L

U+1D70   ᵰ   Latin small letter N with middle tilde Ll L

U+1D71   ᵱ   Latin small letter P with middle tilde Ll L

U+1D72   ᵲ   Latin small letter R with middle tilde Ll L

U+1D73   ᵳ   Latin small letter R with fishhook and middle tilde Ll L

U+1D74   ᵴ   Latin small letter S with middle tilde Ll L

U+1D75   ᵵ   Latin small letter T with middle tilde Ll L

U+1D76   ᵶ   Latin small letter Z with middle tilde Ll L

U+1D77   ᵷ   Latin small letter turned g Ll L

U+1D78   ᵸ   modifier letter Cyrillic en Lm L

U+1D79   ᵹ   Latin small letter insular g Ll L

U+1D7A   ᵺ   Latin small letter th with strikethrough Ll L

U+1D7B   ᵻ   Latin small capital letter I with stroke Ll L

U+1D7C   ᵼ   Latin small letter iota with stroke Ll L

U+1D7D   ᵽ   Latin small letter P with stroke Ll L

U+1D7E   ᵾ   Latin small capital letter U with stroke Ll L

U+1D7F   ᵿ   Latin small letter upsilon with stroke Ll L

 

General Punctuation

     General punctuation

U+2055   ⁕   flower punctuation mark Po ON

U+2056   ⁖   three dot punctuation Po ON

     

U+2058   ⁘   four dot punctuation Po ON

U+2059   ⁙   five dot punctuation Po ON

U+205A   ⁚   two dot punctuation Po ON

U+205B   ⁛   four dot mark Po ON

U+205C   ⁜   dotted cross Po ON

U+205D   ⁝   tricolon Po ON

U+205E   ⁞   vertical four dots Po ON

 

Superscripts and Subscripts

U+2090   ₐ   Latin subscript small letter A Lm L

U+2091   ₑ   Latin subscript small letter E Lm L

U+2092   ₒ   Latin subscript small letter O Lm L

U+2093   ₓ   Latin subscript small letter X Lm L

U+2094   ₔ   Latin subscript small letter schwa Lm L

 

Currency Symbols

U+20B2   ₲   guarani sign Sc ET

U+20B3   ₳   austral sign Sc ET

U+20B4   ₴   hryvnia sign Sc ET

U+20B5   ₵   cedi sign Sc ET

 

Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols

U+20EB   ⃫   combining long double solidus overlay Mn NSM

 

Letterlike Symbols

     Additional letterlike symbols

U+213C   ℼ   double struck small pi Ll L

     

U+214C   ⅌   per sign So ON

 

Miscellaneous Technical

U+23D1   ⏑   metrical breve So ON

U+23D2   ⏒   metrical long over short So ON

U+23D3   ⏓   metrical short over long So ON

U+23D4   ⏔   metrical long over two shorts So ON

U+23D5   ⏕   metrical two shorts over long So ON

U+23D6   ⏖   metrical two shorts joined So ON

U+23D7   ⏗   metrical triseme So ON

U+23D8   ⏘   metrical tetraseme So ON

U+23D9   ⏙   metrical pentaseme So ON

U+23DA   ⏚   earth ground So ON

U+23DB   ⏛   fuse So ON

 

Miscellaneous Symbols

U+2618   ☘   shamrock So ON

U+267E   ♾   permanent paper sign So ON

U+267F   ♿   wheelchair symbol So ON

U+2692   ⚒   hammer and pick So ON

U+2693   ⚓   anchor So ON

U+2694   ⚔   crossed swords So ON

U+2695   ⚕   staff of aesculapius So ON

U+2696   ⚖   scales So ON

U+2697   ⚗   alembic So ON

U+2698   ⚘   flower So ON

U+2699   ⚙   gear So ON

U+269A   ⚚   staff of hermes So ON

U+269B   ⚛   atom symbol So ON

U+269C   ⚜   fleur de lis So ON

U+26A2   ⚢   doubled female sign So ON

U+26A3   ⚣   doubled male sign So ON

U+26A4   ⚤   interlocked female and male sign So ON

U+26A5   ⚥   male and female sign So ON

U+26A6   ⚦   male with stroke sign So ON

U+26A7   ⚧   male with stroke and male and female sign So ON

U+26A8   ⚨   vertical male with stroke sign So ON

U+26A9   ⚩   horizontal male with stroke sign So ON

U+26AA   ⚪   medium white circle So ON

U+26AB   ⚫   medium black circle So ON

U+26AC   ⚬   medium small white circle So L

U+26AD   ⚭   marriage symbol So ON

U+26AE   ⚮   divorce symbol So ON

U+26AF   ⚯   unmarried partnership symbol So ON

U+26B0   ⚰   coffin So ON

U+26B1   ⚱   funeral urn So ON

 

Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols A

U+27C0   ⟀   three dimensional angle Sm ON

U+27C1   ⟁   white triangle containing small white triangle Sm ON

U+27C2   ⟂   perpendicular Sm ON

U+27C3   ⟃   open subset Sm ON

U+27C4   ⟄   open superset Sm ON

U+27C5   ⟅   left s shaped bag delimiter Ps ON

U+27C6   ⟆   right s shaped bag delimiter Pe ON

 

Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows

     Arrows
Other white and black arrows to complete this set can be found in Supplementary Arrows-B and Dingbats

U+2B0E   ⬎   rightwards arrow with tip downwards So ON

U+2B0F   ⬏   rightwards arrow with tip upwards So ON

U+2B10   ⬐   leftwards arrow with tip downwards So ON

U+2B11   ⬑   leftwards arrow with tip upwards So ON

U+2B12   ⬒   square with top half black So ON

U+2B13   ⬓   square with bottom half black So ON

 

Enclosed CJK Letters and Months

     

U+327E   ㉾   circled Hangul ieung u So ON

 

Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols

U+1D6A4   𝚤   mathematical italic small dotless i Ll L

U+1D6A5   𝚥   mathematical italic small dotless j Ll L

 

Altered Characters

In addition, 14 characters were altered in 4.1

A total of 12 characters changed their General Category
1 characters changed their General Category from Letter, Other to Letter, Modifier
9 characters changed their General Category from Number, Decimal Digit to Number, Other
2 characters changed their General Category from Punctuation, Connector to Punctuation, Other
 
A total of 2 characters changed their Bidirectional Category
1 characters changed their Bidirectional Category from European Number Separator to Common Number Separator
1 characters changed their Bidirectional Category from Whitespace to Common Number Separator

 

Ethiopic

U+1369   ፩   Ethiopic digit one had its General Category changed from Number, Decimal Digit to Number, Other
U+136A   ፪   Ethiopic digit two had its General Category changed from Number, Decimal Digit to Number, Other
U+136B   ፫   Ethiopic digit three had its General Category changed from Number, Decimal Digit to Number, Other
U+136C   ፬   Ethiopic digit four had its General Category changed from Number, Decimal Digit to Number, Other
U+136D   ፭   Ethiopic digit five had its General Category changed from Number, Decimal Digit to Number, Other
U+136E   ፮   Ethiopic digit six had its General Category changed from Number, Decimal Digit to Number, Other
U+136F   ፯   Ethiopic digit seven had its General Category changed from Number, Decimal Digit to Number, Other
U+1370   ፰   Ethiopic digit eight had its General Category changed from Number, Decimal Digit to Number, Other
U+1371   ፱   Ethiopic digit nine had its General Category changed from Number, Decimal Digit to Number, Other

 

General Punctuation

U+202F       narrow no break space had its Bidirectional Category changed from Whitespace to Common Number Separator

 

Katakana

U+30FB   ・   Katakana middle dot had its General Category changed from Punctuation, Connector to Punctuation, Other

 

Yi Syllables

U+A015   ꀕ   Yi syllable wu had its General Category changed from Letter, Other to Letter, Modifier

 

Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms

U+FF0F   ／   fullwidth solidus had its Bidirectional Category changed from European Number Separator to Common Number Separator
U+FF65   ･   halfwidth Katakana middle dot had its General Category changed from Punctuation, Connector to Punctuation, Other

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