Shorthand Format Controls

Shorthand Format Controls is a Unicode block containing four formatting characters for representing shorthands in Unicode.

Being invisible controls, they have no visible glyph but can have a representation.

• U+1BCA0 𛲠 SHORTHAND FORMAT LETTER OVERLAP
• U+1BCA1 𛲡 SHORTHAND FORMAT CONTINUING OVERLAP
• U+1BCA2 𛲢 SHORTHAND FORMAT DOWN STEP

Romanian affix -tsion-

Sloan contracted ending oo/o + ZWSP

• U+1BCA3 𛲣 SHORTHAND FORMAT UP STEP

Sloan contracted ending uh/au/aui + ZWSP

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

• Duployan shorthand