Rejected Characters and Scripts

The following table lists characters and scripts rejected for the Unicode standard.  For more information, see About the Pipeline Table. 

This page was last updated 30-April-2008

Rejected Characters and Scripts

Proposed Allocation	Count	Name	UTC Status	ISO Status
0C71	1	TELUGU SIGN ARDHAVISARGA (reproposed as VEDIC SIGN ARDHAVISARGA)	2006-Aug-11 Acceptance superseded	2007-Oct-18 Stage 1
10B38	1	AVESTAN SEPARATION POINT (deleted from Amd 5 ballot as duplication of 2E31 WORD SEPARATOR MIDDLE DOT)	2008-Feb-08 Rejected	2008-Apr-25 Removed from ballot
N/A	1	MALAYALAM CONSONANT SIGN CILLU (inconsistent with approved individual cillu consonant characters)	2006-Nov-08 Rejected	N/A
N/A	1	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER DOUBLE S (existence as character not demonstrated; would cause casing problems for legacy German data)	2004-Nov-18 Rejected	N/A
N/A	1	MODIFIER LETTER STRAIGHT APOSTROPHE (not distinct from existing characters)	2001-Nov-18 Rejected	N/A
N/A	1	Combining umlaut (not distinct from diaeresis)	2004-June-18 Rejected	2004-June-21 Stage 1
N/A	1	Roman canopy character (inappropriate to encode as a character; use markup)	2004-June-18 Rejected	2004-June-21 Stage 1
31C0..31C1	2	IDEOGRAPHIC WHITE SQUARE IDEOGRAPHIC BLACK SQUARE (duplicates of 25A1, 25A0)	2004-June-18 Rejected	2004-June-21 Stage 1
N/A	-	Klingon (determined to be inappropriate for encoding)	2001-May-21 Rejected	N/A
17DD	1	KHMER SIGN LAAK (glyph variant of 17D8)	2001-Jan-31 Rejected	2000-Sep-25 Stage 2
N/A	1	GEORGIAN LETTER U-BRJGU (already representable as <U+10E3, U+0302>)	2001-Jan-31 Rejected	N/A
N/A	2	ZERO WIDTH LIGATOR ZERO WIDTH NONLIGATOR	2000-Feb-03 Rejected	N/A
N/A	2	Ecological Symbols	1998-Feb-26 Rejected	Stage 1
N/A	1	MODIFIER LETTER MIDDLE DOT	1997-Dec-05 Withdrawn	N/A
N/A	1	Mid-level hamzah	1997-Jul-22 Withdrawn	N/A
N/A	45	Phaistos Disc script (under reevaluation in 2006 as a set of symbols)	1997-May-29 Not accepted 2006-May-19 46 Accepted	N/A
N/A	-	Additional Arabic presentation forms for Uighur, Kazakh, and Kirghiz	1996-Dec-06 Rejected	N/A
N/A	14	Yoruba precomposed	1996-Sep-07 Rejected	Stage 1
N/A	15	Armenian Punctuation (one, ARMENIAN HYPHEN, accepted by WG2)	1996-Mar-06 Rejected	1997-Jul-04 Stage 2
N/A	1	Conditional space: SOFT SPACE	Rejected	N/A

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