Phonetic Extensions is a Unicode block containing phonetic characters used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, Old Irish phonetic notation, the Oxford English dictionary and American dictionaries, and Americanist and Russianist phonetic notations. Its character set is continued in the following Unicode block, Phonetic Extensions Supplement.

Phonetic Extensions
RangeU+1D00..U+1D7F
(128 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCyrillic (2 char.)
Greek (15 char.)
Latin (111 char.)
Major alphabetsUPA
Dictionary usage
Assigned128 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.0 (2003)108 (+108)
4.1 (2005)128 (+20)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Block edit

Phonetic Extensions[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+1D0x
U+1D1x
U+1D2x
U+1D3x ᴿ
U+1D4x
U+1D5x
U+1D6x
U+1D7x ᵿ
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1

History edit

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Phonetic Extensions block:

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
4.0 U+1D00..1D6A 107 L2/02-141 N2419 Everson, Michael; et al. (2002-03-20), Uralic Phonetic Alphabet characters for the UCS
L2/02-192 Everson, Michael (2002-05-02), Everson's Reply on UPA
N2442 Everson, Michael; Kolehmainen, Erkki I.; Ruppel, Klaas; Trosterud, Trond (2002-05-21), Justification for placing the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet in the BMP
L2/02-291 Whistler, Ken (2002-05-31), WG2 report from Dublin
L2/02-292 Whistler, Ken (2002-06-03), Early look at WG2 consent docket
L2/02-166R2 Moore, Lisa (2002-08-09), "Scripts and New Characters - UPA", UTC #91 Minutes
L2/02-253 Moore, Lisa (2002-10-21), "Consensus 92-C2", UTC #92 Minutes
L2/11-043 Freytag, Asmus; Karlsson, Kent (2011-02-02), Proposal to correct mistakes and inconsistencies in certain property assignments for super and subscripted letters
L2/11-016 Moore, Lisa (2011-02-15), "Correct mistakes in property assignments for super and subscripted letters (B.13.4) [U+1D62..1D6A]", UTC #126 / L2 #223 Minutes
L2/11-160 PRI #181 Changing General Category of Twelve Characters, 2011-05-02
U+1D6B 1 L2/02-421 N2514 Everson, Michael (2002-11-10), Proposal to encode one Latin letter in the UCS
4.1 U+1D6C..1D76 11 L2/03-174R2 N2632 Constable, Peter (2003-09-30), Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Middle Tilde in the UCS
L2/03-240R3 Moore, Lisa (2003-10-21), "Eleven Phonetic Symbols with Middle Tilde (B.14.15)", UTC #96 Minutes
L2/04-132 N2740 Constable, Peter (2004-04-19), Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS
U+1D77..1D78 2 L2/99-082 N1962 Everson, Michael (1999-02-26), Optimizing Georgian representation in the BMP of the UCS
L2/00-115R2 Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83
L2/03-230R2 N2608R2 Everson, Michael (2003-09-04), Proposal to add Georgian and other characters to the BMP of the UCS
U+1D79 1 L2/03-331 N2641 Everson, Michael (2003-10-05), Proposal to encode one Irish phonetic letter in the UCS
U+1D7A 1 L2/02-361 Davis, Mark (2002-09-05), Double Combining Stroke
L2/03-136 Moore, Lisa (2003-08-18), "Scripts and New Characters - Double Combining Stroke", UTC #95 Minutes
L2/03-334 N2645 Davis, Mark (2003-10-08), Latin Small Letter th with Strikethrough
L2/03-359 N2656 Freytag, Asmus (2003-10-15), Phonetic symbols used in Dictionaries
L2/03-356R2 Moore, Lisa (2003-10-22), "Phonetic symbols used in dictionaries (B.14.15)", UTC #97 Minutes
U+1D7B..1D7F 5 L2/03-170 Constable, Peter (2003-05-30), Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Retroflex Hook in the UCS
L2/03-169R Constable, Peter (2003-06-06), Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Palatal Hook in the UCS
L2/03-180 Constable, Peter (2003-06-07), Proposal to Encode Additional Phonetic Modifier Letters in the UCS
L2/03-190R Constable, Peter (2003-06-08), Proposal to Encode Additional Phonetic Symbols in the UCS
L2/03-136 Moore, Lisa (2003-08-18), "Phonetic Symbols and Modifier Letters", UTC #95 Minutes
L2/04-044 Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Revised Proposal to Encode Additional Phonetic Modifier Letters in the UCS
L2/04-045 Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Revised Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Palatal Hook in the UCS
L2/04-046 Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Revised Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Retroflex Hook in the UCS
L2/04-047 Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Revised Proposal to Encode Additional Phonetic Symbols in the UCS
L2/04-132 N2740 Constable, Peter (2004-04-19), Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS
L2/04-144 Hallissy, Bob (2004-04-27), Soft-dotted characters in the pipeline
L2/04-003R Moore, Lisa (2004-05-17), "Phonetic Modifier Letters (B.14.10), Phonetic Symbols with Palatal Hook (B.14.11), Phonetic Symbols with Retroflex Hook (B.14.12), and Additional Phonetic Symbols (B.14.13)", UTC #98 Minutes
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also edit

References edit

  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.