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Osage (Unicode block)

Osage is a Unicode block containing characters from the Osage alphabet, which was devised in 2006 for writing the Osage language spoken by the Osage people of Oklahoma, United States.

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Osage
RangeU+104B0..U+104FF
(80 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsOsage
Assigned72 code points
Unused8 reserved code points
Unicode Version History
9.0 (2016)72 (+72)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: 12

Osage is a Unicode block containing characters from the Osage alphabet, which was devised in 2006 for writing the Osage language spoken by the Osage people of Oklahoma, United States.3

Osage[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+104Bx 𐒰 𐒱 𐒲 𐒳 𐒴 𐒵 𐒶 𐒷 𐒸 𐒹 𐒺 𐒻 𐒼 𐒽 𐒾 𐒿
U+104Cx 𐓀 𐓁 𐓂 𐓃 𐓄 𐓅 𐓆 𐓇 𐓈 𐓉 𐓊 𐓋 𐓌 𐓍 𐓎 𐓏
U+104Dx 𐓐 𐓑 𐓒 𐓓 𐓘 𐓙 𐓚 𐓛 𐓜 𐓝 𐓞 𐓟
U+104Ex 𐓠 𐓡 𐓢 𐓣 𐓤 𐓥 𐓦 𐓧 𐓨 𐓩 𐓪 𐓫 𐓬 𐓭 𐓮 𐓯
U+104Fx 𐓰 𐓱 𐓲 𐓳 𐓴 𐓵 𐓶 𐓷 𐓸 𐓹 𐓺 𐓻
Notes
1.^As of Unicode version 17.0
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 Osage block:

Version Final code pointsa Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
9.0 U+104B0..104D3, 104D8..104FB 72 L2/14-068 N4548 Everson, Michael; Lookout, Herman Mongrain; Pratt, Cameron (2014-02-20), Preliminary proposal to encode the Osage script in the UCS
L2/14-175 N4587 Everson, Michael; Lookout, Herman Mongrain; Pratt, Cameron (2014-07-30), Proposal to encode Latin characters for Osage in the UCS
N4553 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "10.4.2", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA
L2/14-214 N4619 Everson, Michael; Lookout, Herman Mongrain; Pratt, Cameron (2014-09-21), Final proposal to encode the Osage script in the UCS
L2/14-177 Moore, Lisa (2014-10-17), "Proposal to encode Latin characters for Osage (C.4.2)", UTC #140 Minutes
L2/14-268R Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu; Glass, Andrew; Constable, Peter; Suignard, Michel (2014-10-27), "10. Osage", Recommendations to UTC #141 October 2014 on Script Proposals
L2/14-250 Moore, Lisa (2014-11-10), "Consensus 141-C21", UTC #141 Minutes, Accept 72 Osage letters at U+104B0..U+104FB, in block Osage U+104B0..U+104FF, with properties as documented in L2/14-214, for encoding in a future version of the standard.
L2/16-052 N4603 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), "M63.07", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
References

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. Michael Everson; Herman Mongrain Lookout; Cameron Pratt (2014-09-21). "Final proposal to encode the Osage script in the UCS" (PDF). ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2, Document N4619. Retrieved 2015-01-10.