Phoenician (Unicode block)
Phoenician is a Unicode block containing characters used across the Mediterranean world from the 12th century BCE to the 3rd century CE. The Phoenician alphabet was added to the Unicode Standard in July 2006 with the release of version 5.0. An alternative proposal to handle it as a font variation of Hebrew was turned down. (See PDF[dead link] summary.)
The Unicode block for Phoenician is U+10900–U+1091F. It is intended for the representation of text in Paleo-Hebrew, Archaic Phoenician, Phoenician, Early Aramaic, Late Phoenician cursive, Phoenician papyri, Siloam Hebrew, Hebrew seals, Ammonite, Moabite and Punic.
The letters are encoded U+10900
𐤀 aleph through to U+10915𐤕 taw, U+10916𐤖, U+10917𐤗, U+10918𐤘 and U+10919𐤙 encode the numerals 1, 10, 20, and 100, respectively, and U+1091F𐤟 is the word separator.Characters
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Phoenician block: