Cherokee (Unicode block)

Cherokee is a Unicode block containing the syllabic characters for writing the Cherokee language. When Cherokee was first added to Unicode in version 3.0 it was treated as a unicameral alphabet, but in version 8.0 it was redefined as a bicameral script. The Cherokee block (U+13A0 to U+13FF) contains all the uppercase letters plus six lowercase letters. The Cherokee Supplement block (U+AB70 to U+ABBF) contains the rest of the lowercase letters.

Cherokee[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+13Ax
U+13Bx
U+13Cx
U+13Dx
U+13Ex
U+13Fx
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 13.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points
Cherokee
RangeU+13A0..U+13FF
(96 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCherokee
Major alphabetsCherokee
Assigned92 code points
Unused4 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.085 (+85)
8.092 (+7)
Note: [1][2]

History

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

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountUTC IDL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
3.0U+13A0..13F485UTC/1991-102McGowan, Rick (1991-10-24), Cherokee block description and chart draft
UTC/1995-027N1172Everson, Michael (1995-03-14), Proposal for encoding the Cherokee script
UTC/1995-xxx"Cherokee Proposal", Unicode Technical Committee Meeting #65, Minutes, 1995-06-02
UTC/1996-016Gourd, Charles (1996-03-05), Cherokee Syllabary
UTC/1996-015Everson, Michael (1996-03-08), Re: Cherokee Nation's ordering
UTC/1996-017Everson, Michael (1996-03-14), Proposal for encoding the Cherokee script
N1362Initial comments on encoding Cherokee into ISO/IEC 10646, 1996-04-01
X3L2/96-034N1356Suignard, Michel (1996-04-17), US position concerning the referenced proposal to encode the Cherokee script
N1353Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-06-25), "8.11", Draft minutes of WG2 Copenhagen Meeting # 30
UTC/1996-027.2Greenfield, Steve (1996-07-01), "B. Cherokee", UTC #69 Minutes (PART 2)
N1453Ksar, Mike; Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1996-12-06), "8.12", WG 2 Minutes - Quebec Meeting 31
N1476Paterson, Bruce (1996-12-09), Draft pDAM 12 - Cherokee
N1596Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 2807, Combined PDAM Registration and FPDAM ballot: Amendment 12: Cherokee Script, 1997-06-17
L2/97-288N1603Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "6.4", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June - 4 July 1997
L2/98-130Text for FDAM ballot ISO 10646 Amendment 12 - Cherokee, 1998-03-05
L2/14-026Moore, Lisa (2014-02-17), "Motion 138-M2", UTC #138 Minutes, Any proposal to make the Cherokee script bicameral, should make the existing Cherokee letters uppercase. The UTC deems that this choice would provide better backward compatibility with existing implementations.
8.0U+13F5, 13F8..13FD7L2/13-190N4487Everson, Michael; Feeling, Durbin (2013-10-24), Proposal for the addition of Cherokee characters
L2/13-210Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-10-31), "3", Recommendations to UTC #137 November 2013 on Script Proposals
L2/14-064RN4537REverson, Michael (2014-02-25), Revised proposal for the addition of Cherokee characters
L2/14-100Moore, Lisa (2014-05-13), "Consensus 139-C13", UTC #139 Minutes
L2/14-187Whistler, Ken (2014-07-31), Cherokee casing decision may break identifier syntax
N4553 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.07a", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA
L2/15-214Lunde, Ken (2015-07-30), Phoreus Cherokee type specimen sheet
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
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