Samaritan (Unicode block)

{{Infobox Unicode block

|blockname = Samaritan

|rangestart = 0800

|rangeend = 083F

|script1 = Samaritan

|alphabets = Samaritan Hebrew
Samaritan Aramaic

|5_2 = 61

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Samaritan is a Unicode block containing characters used for writing Samaritan Hebrew and Aramaic.

{{Unicode chart Samaritan}}

History

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

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Version{{nobr|Final code points}}CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
rowspan="10" | 5.2rowspan="10" | U+0800..082D, 0830..083Erowspan="10" | 61{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2003/03206-samaritan-pent.pdf L2/03-206]}}{{Citation|title=Proposal to encode Samaritan Pentateuch Sign|date=2003-06-13|first=Peter|last=Constable|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04159-keown-samarpro.pdf L2/04-159]}}[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2758.pdf N2758]{{Citation|title=Proposal to add Samaritan Pointing to ISO 10646|date=2004-05-12|first=Elaine|last=Keown|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3353.pdf N3353 (pdf],}} [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3353.doc doc]){{Citation|title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27|date=2007-10-10|first=V. S.|last=Umamaheswaran|ref=none|section=M51.13}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07231-n3291-samaritan.pdf L2/07-231]}}[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3291.pdf N3291]{{Citation|title=Preliminary proposal to add the Samaritan alphabet to the BMP of the UCS|date=2007-07-27|first1=Michael|last1=Everson|author-link1=Michael Everson|first2=Mark|last2=Shoulson|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07258-middle-dots.txt L2/07-258]}}{{Citation|title=Middle Dots and Don'ts|date=2007-08-02|first=Ken|last=Whistler|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07260-nonblanks.txt L2/07-260]}}{{Citation|title=Non-blank spaces|date=2007-08-05|first=Asmus|last=Freytag|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07225.htm L2/07-225]}}{{Citation|title=UTC #112 Minutes|date=2007-08-21|first=Lisa|last=Moore|ref=none|section=C.13}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08024-n3377-samaritan.pdf L2/08-024]}}[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3377.pdf N3377]{{Citation|title=Proposal to add the Samaritan alphabet to the BMP of the UCS|date=2008-01-25|first=Michael|last=Everson|ref=none}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08003.htm L2/08-003]}}{{Citation|title=UTC #114 Minutes|date=2008-02-14|first=Lisa|last=Moore|ref=none|section=Samaritan}}
{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08318-n3453.pdf L2/08-318]}}{{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3453.pdf N3453 (pdf],}} [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3453.doc doc]){{Citation|title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52|date=2008-08-13|first=V. S.|last=Umamaheswaran|ref=none|section=M52.8}}
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