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Coptic Epact Numbers

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Coptic Epact Numbers
RangeU+102E0..U+102FF
(32 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCommon (27 char.)
Inherited (1 char.)
Symbol setsNumber forms
Assigned28 code points
Unused4 reserved code points
Unicode version history
7.0 (2014)28 (+28)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Coptic Epact Numbers is a Unicode block containing Old Coptic number forms.

These numbers were used in some regions instead of letters of the Coptic alphabet that were used for encoding numbers,[3] as was common in much of the world at the time, like Roman numerals. It was used most extensively in the Bohairic dialect of the Coptic language that became the liturgical language of Egyptian Christians. It contains separate characters for each of the digits, 1-9 (0 was not indicated), each of the tens numbers from 10-90, and each of the hundreds numbers from 100-900. Numbers were composed from left-to-right by successively adding the values that each character or digit represented. There is a thousand mark diacritic that multiplies the digit by one thousand (so 5 with thousand mark = 5,000, 900 with thousand mark indicates 900,000) Two of the thousands marks together (visually similar to a tanween al-kasra in Arabic) represents a million in a similar fashion, and mirrors other Coptic conventions of indicating higher orders by repetition of marks.

Coptic Epact Numbers[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+102Ex 𐋠 𐋡 𐋢 𐋣 𐋤 𐋥 𐋦 𐋧 𐋨 𐋩 𐋪 𐋫 𐋬 𐋭 𐋮 𐋯
U+102Fx 𐋰 𐋱 𐋲 𐋳 𐋴 𐋵 𐋶 𐋷 𐋸 𐋹 𐋺 𐋻
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History[edit]

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

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
7.0 U+102E0..102FB 28 L2/09-163R Pandey, Anshuman (2009-09-15), Proposal to Encode Coptic Numerals in ISO/IEC 10646
L2/10-114 N3786 Pandey, Anshuman (2010-04-10), Towards an Encoding for Coptic Numbers in the UCS
L2/10-108 Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "C.8.1", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes
L2/10-206R N3843R Pandey, Anshuman (2010-06-21), Final Proposal to Encode Coptic Numbers
L2/10-333 N3886 Everson, Michael; Emmel, Stephen (2010-09-08), Towards the encoding of a complete set of Coptic numbers
L2/10-421R N3958R Pandey, Anshuman (2010-11-01), Request to Rename 'Coptic Numbers' to 'Coptic Epact Numerals'
L2/10-416R Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "Consensus 125-C9", UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes, Change the block name (for U+102E0 - U+102FF) from "Coptic Numbers" to "Coptic Epact Numbers" and the character names from "Coptic..." to "Coptic Epact..." for range U+102E0 - U+102FF.
L2/11-035 Lazrek, Azzeddine (2011-01-08), Opposition about encode Coptic Epact numeral system
L2/11-065 Anderson, Deborah (2011-02-09), Comparison of Coptic Epact vs. Rumi digits
L2/11-062R N3990 Pandey, Anshuman (2011-02-14), Final Proposal to Encode Coptic Epact Numbers
L2/11-016 Moore, Lisa (2011-02-15), "C.16.1", UTC #126 / L2 #223 Minutes
N3903 (pdf, doc) "M57.16", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31
N4103 "T.2. Coptic Numbers", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References[edit]

  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. ^ Pandey, Anshuman (2011-02-14). "N3990: Final Proposal to Encode Coptic Epact Numbers in ISO/IEC 10646" (PDF). ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.