Coptic
RangeU+2C80..U+2CFF
(128 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCoptic
Major alphabetsCoptic
Assigned123 code points
Unused5 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.1 (2005)114 (+114)
5.2 (2009)121 (+7)
6.1 (2012)123 (+2)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Coptic is a Unicode block used with the Greek and Coptic block to write the Coptic language. Prior to version 4.1 of the Unicode Standard, the "Greek and Coptic" block was used exclusively to write Coptic text, but Greek and Coptic letter forms are contrastive in many scholarly works, necessitating their disunification. Any specifically Coptic letters in the Greek and Coptic block are not reproduced in the Coptic Unicode block.

Block

Coptic[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+2C8x
U+2C9x
U+2CAx
U+2CBx ⲿ
U+2CCx
U+2CDx
U+2CEx
U+2CFx ⳿
Notes
1. ^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

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

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
4.1U+2C80..2CEA, 2CF9..2CFF114L2/98-022 (html, pdf)N1658Everson, Michael (1997-12-08), Proposal to encode Coptic in ISO/IEC 10646
L2/98-039Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1998-02-24), "3.A.4.a. Disunificaiton of Coptic", Preliminary Minutes - UTC #74 & L2 #171, Mountain View, CA - December 5, 1997
L2/98-070Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold, "3.A.2. item b. Coptic", Minutes of the joint UTC and L2 meeting from the meeting in Cupertino, February 25-27, 1998
L2/98-286N1703Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), "8.9.2", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20
L2/00-128Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode
L2/00-411Emmel, Stephen (2000-10-05), Coptic -- resolutions from the meeting in Leiden, September 2, 2000
L2/02-051McGowan, Rick (2002-02-03), Coptic Disunification
L2/02-205N2444Everson, Michael; Mansour, Kamal (2002-05-08), Coptic supplementation in the BMP
L2/02-166R2Moore, Lisa (2002-08-09), "Consensus 91-C12", UTC #91 Minutes
L2/03-208Constable, Peter (2003-06-13), Proposal to Encode Coptic Letter Eie for use in Textual Apparatus
L2/03-283N2611Everson, Michael (2003-08-24), Proposal to add the Coptic alphabet to the BMP of the UCS
L2/03-327N2636Everson, Michael (2003-10-01), Revised proposal to add the Coptic alphabet to the BMP of the UCS
L2/04-053Emmel, Stephen (2004-01-26), Changes to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N2636 and N2676 recommended by the International Association for Coptic Studies
L2/04-068Mansour, Kamal (2004-02-02), Coptic Comments
L2/04-130N2744Everson, Michael; Emmel, Stephen (2004-04-20), Revision of the Coptic block under ballot for the BMP of the UCS
N2824Updated charts for Coptic N2744, 2004-06-22
5.2U+2CEB..2CF17L2/07-085RN3222REverson, 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
L2/07-118R2Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), "111-C17", UTC #111 Minutes
L2/07-268N3253 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.30", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
6.1U+2CF2..2CF32L2/10-290N3873REverson, Michael; Emmel, Stephen; Richter, Siegfried G.; Pedro, Susana; Emiliano, António (2010-08-05), Proposal to add additional characters for Greek, Latin, and Coptic
L2/10-221Moore, Lisa (2010-08-23), "C.25", UTC #124 / L2 #221 Minutes
L2/10-348N3912Everson, Michael; Emmel, Stephen; Richter, Siegfried G.; Pedro, Susana; Emiliano, António (2010-09-21), Revised proposal to add additional characters for Greek, Latin, and Coptic to the UCS
N3903 (pdf, doc)"M57.02e", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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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