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Code point allocation for v. 4.0 of the MUFI character recommendation

At the MUFI group meeting in Bergen 7–8 April 2011, a number of characters in the pipeline discussed for inclusion in the next version (4.0) of the MUFI character recommendation. They have been listed below, divided into four major categories.

Note that the majority of characters can be handled with OpenType functionality and thus will not receive separate codepoints (section 2 below).

 

1. Characters which will be assigned new codepoints in the Private Use Area

1.1 From Florian Grammel, København, Denmark

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE UU - E8C7
LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE UU - E8C6

1.2 From Michael Stolz, Bern, Switzerland

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE UE - E8C9
LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE UE - E8C8

1.3 From Jens Ulff-Møller, New York, NY, US

ROMAN NUMERAL SMALL C WITH TWO BARS - F2FF
ROMAN NUMERAL CAPITAL C WITH TWO BARS - F2FE

1.4 From Frederic Michaud, Fontaine-la-Malet, France

LATIN SMALL LETTER E U - F11E
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E U - F11F
LATIN SMALL LETTER CEDILLATED N - F11C
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER CEDILLATED N - F11D
LATIN SMALL LETTER G U - EFBE
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G U - EFBF

1.5 From Andreas Stötzner, Leipzig, Germany

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE C H - F1BB

1.6 From Pascale Sutter, Michael Piotrowski and Tobias Hodel, Zürich, Switzerland

LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH TWO STROKES - E8A1
LATIN SMALL LETTER J WITH TWO STROKES - E8A2
LATIN SMALL LETTER V WITH SHORT SLASH ABOVE RIGHT - E8BB
LATIN SMALL LETTER V WITH TWO SHORT SLASHES ABOVE RIGHT - E8BC
LATIN SMALL LETTER X WITH TWO SHORT SLASHES BELOW RIGHT - E8CE
TRIPLE DAGGER - F1D2
KRONE SIGN - F2FA
HELBELING SIGN - F2FB

1.7 From Janusz S. Bień, Warszawa, Poland

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE LONG S L WITH STROKE - E8DF

 

2. Characters which will be handled with Opentype functionality

The characters on this list are precomposed characters, and should therefore be rendered by Opentype functionality. This means that each glyph must be drawn by the font designer, but that they will be accessed by substitution rules in an Opentype font (otf.), not by specific code points. Furthermore, this means that the characters on this list will not be available in a Truetype font (.ttf).

2.1 From Florian Grammel, København, Denmark

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE UU WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
LATIN SMALL LETTER P WITH DOUBLE ACUTE

2.2 From Florian Grammel, København, Denmark, and Karl G. Johansson, Oslo, Norway

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE WITH OGONEK

Comment: The characters proposed by Florian Grammel and Karl G. Johansson are regarded as identical, cf. the MUFI pipeline sections 3 and 14.

2.3 From Christer Lindqvist, Greifswald, Germany

LATIN SMALL LETTER AI WITH CIRCUMFLEX
LATIN SMALL LETTER EI WITH CIRCUMFLEX
LATIN SMALL LETTER OI WITH CIRCUMFLEX
LATIN SMALL LETTER UI WITH CIRCUMFLEX
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A AND SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
LATIN SMALL LETTER AA WITH CIRCUMFLEX
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E AND LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E AND LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX
LATIN SMALL LETTER EE WITH CIRCUMFLEX
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE WITH GRAVE

2.4 From Pascale Sutter, Zürich, Switzerland

LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH LATIN SMALL LETTER A ABOVE [= TITUS E434]
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH LATIN SMALL LETTER A ABOVE [= TITUS E034]
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH LATIN SMALL LETTER U ABOVE [= TITUS E035]

LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH LATIN SMALL LETTER E ABOVE [= TITUS E0F1]
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH LATIN SMALL LETTER O ABOVE [= TITUS E0F2]
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH LATIN SMALL LETTER U ABOVE [= TITUS E4F3]
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH LATIN SMALL LETTER U ABOVE [= TITUS E0F3]

LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH LATIN SMALL LETTER W ABOVE [= TITUS E7B1]
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH LATIN SMALL LETTER W ABOVE [= TITUS E14E]

LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J WITH LATIN SMALL LETTER E ABOVE [= TITUS E3B0]

LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH LATIN SMALL LETTER E ABOVE [= TITUS E602]
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH LATIN SMALL LETTER E ABOVE [= TITUS E202]

LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH LATIN SMALL LETTER I ABOVE [= TITUS E245]

LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH LATIN SMALL LETTER A ABOVE [= TITUS E332]

LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W WITH LATIN SMALL LETTER I ABOVE [= TITUS E371]
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W WITH LATIN SMALL LETTER O ABOVE [= TITUS E354]
LATIN SMALL LETTER W WITH VERTICAL LINE ABOVE [= TITUS E758]
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W WITH VERTICAL LINE ABOVE [= TITUS E358]
LATIN SMALL LETTER W WITH CARON [= TITUS E759]
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W WITH CARON [= TITUS E359]
LATIN SMALL LETTER W WITH TILDE [= TITUS E75A]
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W WITH TILDE [= TITUS E35A]

2.5 From Frederic Michaud, Fontaine-la-Malet, France

LATIN SMALL E WITH OGONEK AND GRAVE

2.6 From Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen, Leiden, Netherlands

LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE WITH DOT ABOVE AND ACUTE
LATIN SMALL LETTER AE WITH DOT ABOVE AND ACUTE

2.7 From Stadtarchiv der Ortsbürgergemeinde St. Gallen, Switzerland

LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V WITH VERTICAL BAR - E34E
LATIN SMALL LETTER V WITH VERTICAL BAR - E74F

 

3. Characters for which more information is needed

For the characters on this list, the MUFI group need more information (such as speciific meaning, image, and/or combination with other characters):

3.1. From Peter S. Baker, Charlottesville, Virginia, US:

INSULAR ABBREVIATION FOR AUTEM

3.2 From Pascale Sutter, Michael Piotrowski and Tobias Hodel, Zürich, Switzerland

LEFT THEREFORE [Can it be encoded with 2056?]
DOWN THEREFORE [Can it be encoded with 2E2A?]
DIAMOND DOTS [Can it be encoded with 2058?]

3.3. From Frederic Michaud, Fontaine-la-Malet, France

LATIN SMALL E WITH DIAGONAL STROKE - F101
LATIN SMALL CAPITAL RESPONSE
LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH FLOURISHED CEDILLA
LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CURL ABOVE

3.4. From Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen, Leiden, Netherlands

Nine superscript letters with various diacritics:

COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER AE WITH ACUTE (fol. 77r1)
COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER AO WITH ACUTE (fol. 16v29)
COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER AO WITH MACRON (fol. 13v6)
COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH OGONEK AND ACUTE (fol. 30r7)
COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE (fol. 9v8)
COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I WITH MACRON (fol. 9r15)
COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER M WITH ACUTE (fol. 78r28)
COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE AND ACUTE (fol. 27r10)
COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER V WITH ACUTE (fol. 43v27)

Most of these combinations could be produced by a higher positioned acute and macron, i.e.

COMBINING SUPERSCRIPT ACUTE (passim)
COMBINING SUPERSCRIPT MACRON (passim)

Four combinations of two superscripts:

COMBINING SUPERSCRIPT ZIGZAG (ER) AND ACUTE (fol. 1v30)
COMBINING SUPERSCRIPT FLATTENED OPEN A (RA) AND ACUTE (fol. 1r8)
COMBINING SUPERSCRIPT US AND ACUTE (fol. 7v22)
COMBINING SUPERSCRIPT MACRON AND ACUTE (passim)

55 non-structural ligatures (i.e. ligatures without a separate sound value) - with up to four parts (SMALL CAPITAL N + D ROTUNDA + E + SMALL CAPITAL N):

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE A SMALL CAPITAL N LONG S (fol. 2r29)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE A SMALL CAPITAL N T (fol. 61r5)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE A SMALL CAPITAL N Z (fol. 63v10)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE A T (fol. 21r18)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE ENLARGED LETTER A SMALL LETTER N (fol. 54r9)

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE AO G (fol. 25r13)

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE D E (fol. 5v19)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE D E WITH MACRON (fol. 9v17)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE D G R (fol. 12r4)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE D SMALL CAPITAL N (fol. 56v6) + COMBINING MACRON
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE D SMALL CAPITAL N LONG S (fol. 54v32) + COMBINING MACRON
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE D O (fol. 57r28)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE D R (fol. 5r30)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE D R (fol. 40v24) + COMBINING MACRON
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE D ROTUNDA E (fol. 5v30)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE D ROTUNDA E SMALL CAPITAL N (fol. 102r14)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE D ROTUNDA G (fol. 12r6)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE D ROTUNDA SMALL CAPITAL N (fol. 55v26) + COMBINING MACRON
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE D ROTUNDA R (fol. 10v15)

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE E N G (fol. 32v21)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE UNCIAL E SMALL CAPITAL N (fol. 47r6)

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE G E (fol. 38r23)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE G L (fol. 13v19)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE G LONG S (fol. 45r1)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE G THORN (fol. 36r29)

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE L R (fol. 16r5)

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE SMALL CAPITAL N D (fol. 78v8)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE SMALL CAPITAL N D R (fol. 56v5)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE SMALL CAPITAL N D ROTUNDA (fol. 78r10)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE SMALL CAPITAL N D ROTUNDA E (fol. 44r31)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE SMALL CAPITAL N D ROTUNDA E SMALL CAPITAL N (fol. 52v7)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE SMALL CAPITAL N D ROTUNDA R (fol. 64v33)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE SMALL CAPITAL N E (fol. 45r20)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE SMALL CAPITAL N G (fol. 9r31)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE SMALL CAPITAL N G LONG S (fol. 39v20) + COMBINING MACRON
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE SMALL CAPITAL N K (fol. 54r27)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE SMALL CAPITAL N L (fol. 61r6)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE SMALL CAPITAL N R (fol. 6v6)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE SMALL CAPITAL N T (fol. 43v16)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE SMALL CAPITAL N Z (fol. 55r3)

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE O SMALL CAPITAL N LONG S (fol. 49v13)

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE P LONG S (fol. 62r27)

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE Q D (fol. 36r26)
- can be combined with:
COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER E
COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER A
COMBINING MACRON
all of which positioned above the "q"

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE Q D R (fol. 55v30)
- can be combined with
COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER E
positioned above the "q"

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE Q SMALL CAPITAL N (fol. 99r2)

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE Q SMALL CAPITAL N D (fol. 83r9)
- can be combined with
COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER E
COMBINING MACRON
both of which positioned above the "q"

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE Q SMALL CAPITAL N D ROTUNDA (fol. 83v27)
- can be combined with
COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER E
positioned above the "q"

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE Q SMALL CAPITAL N D ROTUNDA E (fol. 84r16)
- can be combined with
COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER E
COMBINING MACRON
both of which positioned above the "q"

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE Q R (fol. 79r17)
- can be combined with
COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER E
positioned above the "q"

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE Q THORN (fol. 6r26)
- can be combined with
COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER E
COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER A
both of which positioned above the "q"

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE Q THORN R (fol. 14v8)
- can be combined with
COMBINING MACRON
positioned above the "q"

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE R G (fol. 12r26)

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE THORN E (fol. 10r28)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE THORN WITH BAR E (fol. 59r19)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE THORN R (fol. 4r4)

Finally, two variants of the AV ligature:

LATIN ENLARGED LETTER SMALL LIGATURE AV (i.e. both parts are enlarged letters)
LATIN ENLARGED LETTER SMALL LIGATURE A LATIN SMALL LETTER V (the first part is enlarged, the second is not, cf. fol. 83vb2?)

An additional superscript letter:

COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER UNCIAL M

Three combinations of superscript letters and diacritics:

COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH MACRON (fol. 11rb16)
COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH ACUTE (fol. 12ra22)
COMBINING LATIN SMALL CAPITAL R WITH DOT ABOVE (fol. 25ra39)

One combination of two diacritics:

COMBINING SUPERSCRIPT DOT AND ZIGZAG (fol. 145va33)

Thirteen non-structural ligatures:

LATIN SMALL LIGATURE A A WITH ACUTE (fol. 195va30)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE A WITH ACUTE A (fol. 187vb5)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE A WITH ACUTE A WITH ACUTE (fol. 173va7)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE A WITH ACUTE A WITH ACUTE R (fol. 185vb33)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE A WITH ACUTE V WITH MACRON (fol. 85ra33)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE B V (fol. 165rb7)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE D ROTUNDA V (fol. 23rb 15)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE ETH V (fol. 22ra33)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE G V (fol. 147vb2)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE N V WITH MACRON (fol. 71ra20)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE Q LONG S (fol. 127va17)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE U R (fol. 133vb17)
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE THORN V (fol. 75vb4)

 

4. Characters which have already been encoded

This is a list of characters which have already been encoded in the Unicode Standard:

4.1 From Pascale Sutter, Michael Piotrowski and Tobias Hodel, Zürich, Switzerland

KRONE SIGN GRISON : This character can be encoded with U+25B3 WHITE UP-POINTING TRIANGLE

 


Created 8 April 2011 by OEH. Last update 26 June 2013.