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Greek and Coptic
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Greek and Coptic is the Unicode block for representing modern (monotonic) Greek. It was originally also used for writing Coptic,[1] using the similar Greek letters in addition to the uniquely Coptic additions. Beginning with version 4.1 of the Unicode Standard, a separate Coptic block has been included in Unicode, allowing for mixed Greek/Coptic text that is stylistically contrastive, as is convention in scholarly works. Writing polytonic Greek requires the use of combining characters or the precomposed vowel + tone characters in the Greek Extended character block.
Greek and Coptic | |
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Range | U+0370..U+03FF (144 code points) |
Plane | BMP |
Scripts | Greek (117 char.) Coptic (14 char.) Common (4 char.) |
Major alphabets | Greek |
Assigned | 135 code points |
Unused | 9 reserved code points |
Source standards | ISO 8859-7 |
Unicode version history | |
1.0.0 (1991) | 112 (+112) |
1.0.1 (1992) | 103 (-9) |
1.1 (1993) | 105 (+2) |
3.0 (1999) | 110 (+5) |
3.1 (2001) | 112 (+2) |
3.2 (2002) | 115 (+3) |
4.0 (2003) | 120 (+5) |
4.1 (2005) | 124 (+4) |
5.0 (2006) | 127 (+3) |
5.1 (2008) | 134 (+7) |
7.0 (2014) | 135 (+1) |
Unicode documentation | |
Code chart ∣ Web page | |
Note: [1][2][3] |
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Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was simply Greek, although Coptic letters were already included.[4]