Roadmap to the BMP of ISO 10646

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N1370R (HTML version)
Date: 1996-07-20

Title: Roadmap to the BMP of ISO 10646

Source: Michael Everson, Everson Gunn Teoranta (WG2 member for Ireland)
Status: Expert contribution
Action: For consideration by WG2

The following tables comprise a real-size map of the Basic Multilingual plane of ISO/IEC 10646-1. The following conventions are used in the table:

Black text in a block indicates characters already allocated to the BMP.
The empty white blocks indicate unencoded areas (namely, 0000-001F, 0080-009F, FFEE-FFFF).
Blue text in a block indicates new scripts which are, in my opinion, reasonably mature and ready for encoding, or those which are expected to be soon.
Red text in a block indicates new scripts for which detailed proposals are yet to be written; this section is based in part on the allocations proposed in N947.
??? in a block indicates that no suggestion is made regarding the block allocation.

Note that the unallocated scripts appear in parentheses. This serves to indicate that the size and location of the block is merely a prognosis and does not indicate anything else.

NOTE ON THE HTML: I have set this document up trying to make the table give accurate sizes; in Times 12 point on the Macintosh all the columns appear to be the same width except columns 8 and 9. I am not sure why this happened -- but it does not greatly affect the usefulness of the document. Hints on forcing the HTML to behave would be much appreciated.

Basic Latin

Latin 1 Supplement

Latin Extended-A

Latin Extended-B

IPA Extensions

Spacing Modifiers

Combining Diacritics

Basic Greek

Gr & Coptic

Cyrillic

???

Armenian

Hebrew (Basic & Extended)

Basic Arabic

Extended Arabic

Maldivian

Maghreb

Numidian

Syriac

Aramaic

Samaritan

Phoenician

S.Arabian

Balti

Meroitic

Etruscan

Ugaritic

Pahlavi

Devanagari

Bengali

Gurmukhi

Gujarati

Oriya

Tamil

Telugu

Kannada

Malayalam

Sinhalese

Thai

Lao

Basic Tibetan

Extended Tibetan

Extended Cyrillic

???

Georgian

Hangul Jamo

Ethiopic

Extended Ethiopic

Khmer

Burmese

Cherokee

Ogham

Runes

Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics

Gothic

Glagolitic

Javanese

Balinese

Batak

Buginese

Kirat/Limbu

Manipuri

Rong/Lepcha

Deseret

Linear B

Persian Cuneif.

Tifinagh

???

Tai Lu

Tai Mau

???

Tagalog

Mangyan

???

Latin Extended Additional

Greek Extended

General Punctuation

Subs/Supers

Currency

Diacritic Symbols

Letterlike Symbols

Number Forms

Arrows

Mathematical Symbols

Miscellaneous Technical

Control Pictures

OCR

Enclosed Alphanumerics

Box Drawing

Blocks

Geometric Shapes

Miscellaneous Symbols

Dingbats

More Dingbats

???

CJK Symbols & Punct.

Hiragana

Katakana

Bopomofo

Hangul Compatibility Jamo

???

Enclosed CJK Letters & Months

CJK Compatibility

Mongolian?

???

CJK Unified Ideographs

Hangul Syllables

???

Private Use Area

CJK Compatibility Ideographs

Alphabetic Pres. Forms

Arabic Presentation Forms A

???

Half

CJK Comp.

Small

Arabic Presentation Forms B

Halfwidth & Fullwidth Forms

Sp.

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Michael Everson, everson@indigo.ie, Baile Átha Cliath, 1996-07-28

Title: Roadmap to the BMP of ISO 10646

Source: Michael Everson, Everson Gunn Teoranta (WG2 member for Ireland) Status: Expert contribution Action: For consideration by WG2

Source: Michael Everson, Everson Gunn Teoranta (WG2 member for Ireland)
Status: Expert contribution
Action: For consideration by WG2