Shorthand Format Controls

Unicode character block
Shorthand Format Controls
RangeU+1BCA0..U+1BCAF
(16 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCommon
Major alphabetsShorthands
Assigned4 code points
Unused12 reserved code points
Unicode version history
7.0 (2014)4 (+4)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Shorthand Format Controls is a Unicode block containing four formatting characters for representing shorthands in Unicode.[3]

Block

Shorthand Format Controls[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+1BCAx  𛲠‎   𛲡‎   𛲢‎   𛲣‎ 
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 17.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

Being invisible controls, they have no visible glyph but can have a representation.

  • U+1BCA0 𛲠 SHORTHAND FORMAT LETTER OVERLAP[4]
  • U+1BCA1 𛲡 SHORTHAND FORMAT CONTINUING OVERLAP[5]
  • U+1BCA2 𛲢 SHORTHAND FORMAT DOWN STEP[6]
Romanian affix -tsion-
Sloan contracted ending oo/o + ZWSP
  • U+1BCA3 𛲣 SHORTHAND FORMAT UP STEP[7]
Sloan contracted ending uh/au/aui + ZWSP

History

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

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.
  3. ^ Anderson, Van. "Proposal to include Duployan Shorthands and Chinook script and Shorthand Format Controls in UCS" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-07-10.
  4. ^ "Unicode U+1BCA0 SHORTHAND FORMAT LETTER OVERLAP". Codepoints.net.
  5. ^ "Unicode U+1BCA1 SHORTHAND FORMAT LETTER OVERLAP". Codepoints.net.
  6. ^ "Unicode U+1BCA2 SHORTHAND FORMAT LETTER OVERLAP". Codepoints.net.
  7. ^ "Unicode U+1BCA3 SHORTHAND FORMAT LETTER OVERLAP". Codepoints.net.
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