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Vertical Forms

Vertical Forms is a Unicode block containing vertical punctuation for compatibility characters with the Chinese Standard GB 18030.

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Vertical Forms
RangeU+FE10..U+FE1F
(16 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCommon
Symbol setsVertical punctuation
Assigned10 code points
Unused6 reserved code points
Source standardsGB 18030
Unicode version history
4.1 (2005)10 (+10)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: 12
Graphical representation of the Vertical Forms Unicode block
Graphical representation of the Vertical Forms Unicode block source ↗

Vertical Forms is a Unicode block containing vertical punctuation for compatibility characters with the Chinese Standard GB 18030.

In the Unicode specification, U+FE18 ︘ PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL RIGHT WHITE LENTICULAR BRAKCET has a typo in its name; "BRACKET" is spelt as "BRAKCET".3

Vertical Forms[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+FE1x ︐ ︑ ︒ ︓ ︔ ︕ ︖ ︗ ︘ ︙
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 Vertical Forms block:

Version Final code pointsa Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
4.1 U+FE10..FE19 10 L2/03-411 Goldsmith, Deborah; Muller, Eric (2003-10-31), Unencoded chars in GB 18030 & HK-SCS
L2/04-161R N2807 Suignard, Michel; Muller, Eric; Jenkins, John (2004-06-17), HKSCS and GB 18030 PUA characters, background document
L2/04-263 N2808 Suignard, Michel (2004-06-17), HKSCS and GB 18030 PUA characters, request for additional characters and related information
L2/05-137 Freytag, Asmus (2005-05-10), Handling "defective" names
L2/05-108R Moore, Lisa (2005-08-26), "Consensus 103-C7", UTC #103 Minutes, Create a "Normative Name Alias" property and file in the UCD. Populate the property with names from the sections "Typos" and "Bad or misleading names" from document L2/05-137.
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
See also

See also

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. "4. Character Properties, Types of Character Name Aliases". The Unicode Standard, Version 13.0 (PDF). Mountain View, CA: Unicode, Inc. March 2020.