| Shorthand Format Controls | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+1BCA0..U+1BCAF (16 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Common |
| Major alphabets | Shorthands |
| Assigned | 4 code points |
| Unused | 12 reserved code points |
| Unicode Version History | |
| 7.0 (2014) | 4 (+4) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: 12 | |
Shorthand Format Controls is a Unicode block containing four formatting characters for representing shorthands in Unicode.3
Block
| Shorthand Format Controls[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+1BCAx | | | | | ||||||||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
Being invisible controls, they have no visible glyph but can have a representation.
- U+1BCA0 SHORTHAND FORMAT LETTER OVERLAP4
- U+1BCA1 SHORTHAND FORMAT CONTINUING OVERLAP5
- U+1BCA2 SHORTHAND FORMAT DOWN STEP6
- Romanian affix -tsion-
- Sloan contracted ending oo/o + ZWSP
- U+1BCA3 SHORTHAND FORMAT UP STEP7
- Sloan contracted ending uh/au/aui + ZWSP
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Shorthand Format Controls block:
| Version | Final code pointsa | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | U+1BCA0..1BCA3 | 4 | L2/09-184 | Anderson, Van (2009-05-03), Proposal to include Chinook Pipa script in UCS | |
| L2/09-184.1 | Anderson, Van (2009-05-03), Proposal to include Chinook Pipa script in UCS [zip format of the HTML version] | ||||
| L2/09-283 | Anderson, Van (2009-07-24), Proposal to include Chinook Pipa script in UCS | ||||
| L2/09-364 | Anderson, Van (2009-10-06), Proposal to Include Duployan Shorthands and Chinook Script in UCS | ||||
| L2/09-364.1 | Anderson, Van (2009-10-06), Proposal to Include Duployan Shorthands and Chinook Script in UCS [zip format of the HTML version] | ||||
| L2/09-364.2 | Anderson, Van (2009-10-26), Proposal to Include Duployan Shorthands and Chinook Script in UCS [fonts and data] | ||||
| L2/10-027 | Anderson, Van (2010-01-25), Duployan Charts | ||||
| L2/10-028 | Anderson, Van (2010-01-25), Duployan Documentation | ||||
| L2/10-026 | Anderson, Van (2010-01-31), Proposal to include Duployan Shorthands and Chinook script in UCS | ||||
| L2/10-159 | Anderson, Van (2010-05-03), Proposal to include Duployan Shorthands and Chinook script in UCS | ||||
| L2/10-201 | Anderson, Van (2010-05-12), Guide to Duployan Shorthands and Stenographies | ||||
| L2/10-202 | Anderson, Van (2010-05-12), Duployan Texts | ||||
| L2/10-272R2 | N3895 | Anderson, Van (2010-08-12), Proposal to include Duployan Shorthands and Chinook script and Shorthand Format Controls in UCS | |||
| L2/10-221 | Moore, Lisa (2010-08-23), "C.21", UTC #124 / L2 #221 Minutes | ||||
| L2/10-347 | N3908 | Everson, Michael (2010-09-21), On ordering and the proposed Duployan script for shorthands and Chinook | |||
| L2/10-352 | N3922 | Anderson, Van (2010-09-21), Response to Irish NB comments N3908 | |||
| L2/10-364 | N3931 | Everson, Michael (2010-10-03), Further discussion on ordering and the proposed Duployan script | |||
| L2/10-383 | N3940 | Anderson, Van (2010-10-05), Quick response to Irish NB comments N3931 | |||
| L2/11-215 | N4088 | Anderson, Van; Everson, Michael (2011-05-30), Resolving chart and collation order for the Duployan script | |||
| L2/11-303 | Anderson, Van (2011-07-19), Proposal to include Duployan Shorthands and Chinook script and Shorthand Format Controls in UCS, as approved by WG2 | ||||
| N4103 | "11.1.5 Duployan Shorthands and Chinook script and Shorthand Format Controls in UCS", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | ||||
| L2/14-134 | Davis, Mark (2014-05-05), Fix to Script=Inherited values | ||||
| L2/14-100 | Moore, Lisa (2014-05-13), "B.14.3", UTC #139 Minutes | ||||
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References
References
- "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- Anderson, Van. "Proposal to include Duployan Shorthands and Chinook script and Shorthand Format Controls in UCS" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-07-10.
- "Unicode U+1BCA0 SHORTHAND FORMAT LETTER OVERLAP". Codepoints.net.
- "Unicode U+1BCA1 SHORTHAND FORMAT LETTER OVERLAP". Codepoints.net.
- "Unicode U+1BCA2 SHORTHAND FORMAT LETTER OVERLAP". Codepoints.net.
- "Unicode U+1BCA3 SHORTHAND FORMAT LETTER OVERLAP". Codepoints.net.