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See also: Combining Diacritical Marks (Unicode block), Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement (Unicode block), Combining Diacritical Marks Extended (Unicode block), and Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols (Unicode block) Unicode character block
Combining Half Marks
RangeU+FE20..U+FE2F
(16 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCyrillic (2 char.)
Inherited (14 char.)
Symbol setsHalf diacritics
Assigned16 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
1.1 (1993)4 (+4)
5.1 (2008)7 (+3)
7.0 (2014)14 (+7)
8.0 (2015)16 (+2)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
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Combining Half Marks is a Unicode block containing diacritical combining characters for spanning multiple characters.

Block

Combining Half Marks
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+FE2x ◌︠ ◌︡ ◌︢ ◌︣ ◌︤ ◌︥ ◌︦ ◌︧ ◌︨ ◌︩ ◌︪ ◌︫ ◌︬ ◌︭ ◌︮ ◌︯
Notes
1. As of Unicode version 16.0

History

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

Version Final code points Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
1.1 U+FE20..FE23 4 (to be determined)
5.1 U+FE24..FE26 3 L2/07-085R N3222R Everson, Michael; Emmel, Stephen; Marjanen, Antti; Dunderberg, Ismo; Baines, John; Pedro, Susana; Emiliano, António (2007-03-15), Proposal to add additional characters for Coptic and Latin in the UCS
L2/07-150 Whistler, Ken (2007-05-10), "G", WG2 Consent Docket
L2/07-118R2 Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), "111-C17", UTC #111 Minutes
L2/07-268 N3253 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.22", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
7.0 U+FE27..FE2D 7 L2/08-392 Pentzlin, Karl (2008-10-25), Proposal to encode a combining diacritical mark for Low German dialect writing
L2/09-028 N3571 Ruppel, Klaas; Aalto, Tero; Everson, Michael (2009-01-27), Proposal to encode additional characters for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet
L2/09-281 Anderson, Deborah (2009-08-06), COMBINING TRIPLE INVERTED BREVE and other triple-length combining marks
L2/09-225R Moore, Lisa (2009-08-17), "C.14", UTC #120 / L2 #217 Minutes
L2/10-353 N3915 Pentzlin, Karl (2010-09-23), Preliminary Proposal to enable the use of Combining Triple Diacritics in Plain Text
L2/10-416R Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "C.4", UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes
N3903 (pdf, doc) "10.25", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31
L2/11-224 N4078 Proposal to enable the use of Combining Triple Diacritics in Plain Text, 2011-05-22
L2/11-261R2 Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), "Consensus 128-C34", UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes
L2/11-296R N4131 Everson, Michael (2011-10-28), Proposal for encoding the Caucasian Albanian script in the SMP of the UCS
N4103 "11.15 Combining Triple Diacritics in plain text", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
N4243 Everson, Michael; Gippert, Jost (2012-02-14), Documentation for Two Characters FE2B and FE2C for Caucasian Albanian (N4131R)
L2/12-112 Moore, Lisa (2012-05-17), "131-C22", UTC #131 / L2 #228 Minutes
N4253 (pdf, doc) "M59.01e", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 59, 2012-09-12
8.0 U+FE2E..FE2F 2 L2/13-164 Cleminson, Ralph; Birnbaum, David (2013-07-25), Feedback from Experts on Cyrillic proposals
L2/13-165 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-07-25), "4", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
L2/13-132 Moore, Lisa (2013-07-29), "Consensus 136-C23", UTC #136 Minutes
L2/13-139 N4475 Andreev, Aleksandr; Shardt, Yuri; Simmons, Nikita (2013-08-07), Proposal to Encode Combining Half Marks Used for Cyrillic Supralineation in Unicode
N4553 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.04a", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

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.
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