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Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement

Unicode character block

Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement is a Unicode block containing combining characters for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, Medievalist notations, and German dialectology (Teuthonista). It is an extension of the diacritic characters found in the Combining Diacritical Marks block.

01Block

Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+1DCx
U+1DDx
U+1DEx
U+1DFx ᷿
Notes
1.^As of Unicode version 17.0
Graphical representation of the Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement Unicode block
Graphical representation of the Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement Unicode block

02History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement block:

VersionFinal code pointsCountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
4.1U+1DC0..1DC12L2/02-031Anderson, Deborah (2002-01-21), TLG Miscellanea Proposal
L2/02-033Anderson, Deborah (2002-01-21), TLG Unicode Proposal (draft)
L2/02-053Anderson, Deborah (2002-02-04), Description of TLG Documents
L2/02-273Pantelia, Maria (2002-07-31), TLG Unicode Proposal
L2/02-287Pantelia, Maria (2002-08-09), Proposal Summary Form accompanying TLG Unicode Proposal (L2/02-273)
L2/02-312RPantelia, Maria (2002-11-07), Proposal to encode additional Greek editorial and punctuation characters in the UCS
L2/03-324N2642Pantelia, Maria (2003-10-06), Proposal to encode additional Greek editorial and punctuation characters in the UCS
L2/04-132N2740Constable, Peter (2004-04-19), Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS
U+1DC21L2/03-190RConstable, Peter (2003-06-08), Proposal to Encode Additional Phonetic Symbols in the UCS
L2/04-047Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Revised Proposal to Encode Additional Phonetic Symbols in the UCS
L2/04-132N2740Constable, Peter (2004-04-19), Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS
L2/04-003RMoore, Lisa (2004-05-17), "Additional Phonetic Symbols (B.14.13)", UTC #98 Minutes
U+1DC31L2/04-051Anderson, Deborah (2004-01-29), Comments on 2619R Final Glagolitic proposal
L2/04-171N2763Everson, Michael (2004-05-29), Proposal to add COMBINING GLAGOLITIC SUSPENSION MARK to the BMP of the UCS
5.0U+1DC4..1DCA7L2/04-246RPriest, Lorna (2004-07-26), Revised Proposal for Additional Latin Phonetic and Orthographic Characters
L2/04-316Moore, Lisa (2004-08-19), "C.6", UTC #100 Minutes
L2/04-348N2906Priest, Lorna (2004-08-23), Revised Proposal for Additional Latin Phonetic and Orthographic Characters
U+1DFE..1DFF2L2/05-189N2958Lehtiranta, Juhani; Ruppel, Klaas; Suutari, Toni; Trosterud, Trond (2005-07-22), Report on progress in implementing the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet with indication of the need for additional characters and symbols
L2/05-261N2989Ruppel, Klaas; Kolehmainen, Erkki I.; Everson, Michael; Freytag, Asmus; Whistler, Ken (2005-09-13), Proposal to add six additional Uralicist characters to the UCS
L2/05-270Whistler, Ken (2005-09-21), "A. Uralicist character additions", WG2 Consent Docket (Sophia Antipolis)
L2/05-279Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), "Consensus 105-C29", UTC #105 Minutes
N2953 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), "7.4.7", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15
5.1U+1DCB..1DCC2L2/06-214N3048Proposal to encode two combining characters in the UCS, 2006-03-02
L2/06-108Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), "Consensus 107-C35", UTC #107 Minutes
N3103 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-08-25), "M48.17", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 48, Mountain View, CA, USA; 2006-04-24/27
U+1DCD..1DE626L2/05-183N2957Everson, Michael; Haugen, Odd Einar; Emiliano, António; Pedro, Susana; Grammel, Florian; Baker, Peter; Stötzner, Andreas; Dohnicht, Marcus; Luft, Diana (2005-08-02), Preliminary proposal to add medievalist characters to the UCS
L2/06-027N3027Everson, Michael; Baker, Peter; Emiliano, António; Grammel, Florian; Haugen, Odd Einar; Luft, Diana; Pedro, Susana; Schumacher, Gerd; Stötzner, Andreas (2006-01-30), Proposal to add Medievalist characters to the UCS
L2/06-049Pedro, Susana (2006-01-31), Letter of support for Medievalist letters (L2/06-027)
L2/06-048Emiliano, Antonio (2006-02-02), Letter of support for Medievalist letters (L2/06-027)
L2/06-008R2Moore, Lisa (2006-02-13), "C.14", UTC #106 Minutes
N2953 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), "7.4.6", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15
L2/06-074RN3039RFeedback on N3027 Proposal to add Medievalist Characters, 2006-03-16
L2/06-101N3060Feedback on N3027 "Proposal to add medievalist characters to the UCS", 2006-03-27
L2/06-116N3077Everson, Michael; Baker, Peter; Emiliano, António; Grammel, Florian; Haugen, Odd Einar; Luft, Diana; Pedro, Susana; Schumacher, Gerd; Stötzner, Andreas (2006-03-31), Response to UTC/US contribution N3037R, "Feedback on N3027 Proposal to add medievalist characters"
L2/06-108Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), "Consensus 107-C36", UTC #107 Minutes
N3103 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-08-25), "M48.14", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 48, Mountain View, CA, USA; 2006-04-24/27
L2/06-318N3160Response to Project Editor's contribution N3146, "Draft disposition of comments on SC2 N3875 (PDAM text for Amendment 3.2 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003)", 2006-09-21
5.2U+1DFD1L2/07-334R2N3447Priest, Lorna (2007-10-15), Proposal to encode two phonetic characters and two Shona characters
L2/07-345Moore, Lisa (2007-10-25), "C.4", UTC #113 Minutes
L2/08-318N3453 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.20f", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52
6.0U+1DFC1L2/09-028N3571Ruppel, Klaas; Aalto, Tero; Everson, Michael (2009-01-27), Proposal to encode additional characters for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet
L2/09-234N3603 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.13g", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
L2/09-104Moore, Lisa (2009-05-20), "Consensus 119-C27", UTC #119 / L2 #216 Minutes
7.0U+1DE7..1DF414L2/08-428N3555Everson, Michael (2008-11-27), Exploratory proposal to encode Germanicist, Nordicist, and other phonetic characters in the UCS
L2/10-346N3907Everson, Michael; Wandl-Vogt, Eveline; Dicklberger, Alois (2010-09-23), Preliminary proposal to encode "Teuthonista" phonetic characters in the UCS
L2/11-137N4031Everson, Michael; Wandl-Vogt, Eveline; Dicklberger, Alois (2011-05-09), Proposal to encode "Teuthonista" phonetic characters in the UCS
L2/11-203N4082Everson, Michael; et al. (2011-05-27), Support for "Teuthonista" encoding proposal
L2/11-202N4081Everson, Michael; Dicklberger, Alois; Pentzlin, Karl; Wandl-Vogt, Eveline (2011-06-02), Revised proposal to encode "Teuthonista" phonetic characters in the UCS
L2/11-240N4106Everson, Michael; Pentzlin, Karl (2011-06-09), Report on the ad hoc re "Teuthonista" (SC2/WG2 N4081) held during the SC2/WG2 meeting at Helsinki
L2/11-261R2Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), "Consensus 128-C38", UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes, Approve 85 characters for German dialectology...
N4103"11.16 Teuthonista phonetic characters", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
L2/12-269N4296Request to change the names of three Teuthonista characters under ballot, 2012-07-26
U+1DF51L2/12-209RN4279REverson, Michael; Starner, David (2012-07-31), Proposal to add COMBINING UP TACK ABOVE to the UCS
L2/12-239Moore, Lisa (2012-08-14), "C.5", UTC #132 Minutes
9.0U+1DFB1L2/12-349Manandhar, Dev Dass; Karmacharya, Samir; Chitrakar, Bishnu (2012-10-29), Proposal for the Nepaalalipi script in the UCS
L2/12-390Anderson, Deborah (2012-11-08), Comparison between Newar and Nepaalalipi proposals (L2/12-003 and L2/12-349)
L2/14-253Anderson, Deborah (2014-10-06), Recommendations to UTC from Script Meeting in Nepal
L2/14-250Moore, Lisa (2014-11-10), "Consensus 141-C25", UTC #141 Minutes
L2/14-285R3N4660Whistler, Ken (2014-12-04), Towards a Consensus Encoding of Newa
10.0U+1DF6..1DF94L2/15-173Andreev, Aleksandr; Shardt, Yuri; Simmons, Nikita (2015-07-29), Proposal to Encode some Additional Symbols used in Church Slavonic Text
L2/15-187Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "E.2", UTC #144 Minutes
N4739"M64.06", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31
14.0U+1DFA1L2/19-338Kiraz, Sebastian Kenoro; Kiraz, George (2019-11-21), Expanding the "Syriac Supplement" U+0860 Block for historical glyphs and marks
L2/19-343Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2019-10-06), "8. Syriac", Recommendations to UTC #161 October 2019 on Script Proposals
L2/20-019Yang, Ben; Kiraz, Sebastian Kenoro; Kiraz, George (2020-01-07), Proposal to encode COMBINING DOT BELOW LEFT for Syriac
L2/20-046Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2020-01-10), "6. Syriac", Recommendations to UTC #162 January 2020 on Script Proposals
L2/20-015RMoore, Lisa (2020-05-14), "C.9 Proposal to encode COMBINING DOT BELOW LEFT for Syriac", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162
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