Medieval Unicode Font Initiative

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N3027 proposal to Unicode

A proposal for the inclusion of approx. 100 medieval characters has been submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee, and was favourably received at the 6–9 February 2006 meeting (although questions were raised about some of the characters). The proposal has been edited by Michael Everson and has contributors from the MUFI group as well as from other projects.

The characters in this proposal have been drawn from several sources and are attested with a broad variety of samples from many European countries.

N3027 30 January 2006 - PDF file, 3.6 MB

N3193 proposal to Unicode

This proposal, also edited by Michael Everson, contains several punctuation marks of interest for medievalists (see pp. 32-33), and also several signs for classical weight and currency. It has been accepted by the Unicode Consortium.

N3193 5 January 2007 - PDF file, 2.2 MB

NEW April 2008! The characters in these proposals can be found in various code charts in v. 5.1 of the Unicode Standard, released on 4 April 2008:

U1DC0 Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement: 1DCD-1DE6 (26 characters)

U1E00 Latin Extended Additional: 1E9C-1E9F, 1EFA-1EFF (10 characters)

U2E00 Supplemental Punctuation: 2E20-2E2E (15 characters)

U10190 Ancient Symbols: 10190-1019B (12 characters)

UA720 Latin Extended-D: A730-A787 (84 characters)