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Runic (Unicode block)

Runic is a Unicode block containing runic characters. It was introduced in Unicode 3.0 (1999), with eight additional characters introduced in Unicode 7.0 (2014).[3] The original encoding of runes in UCS was based on the recommendations of the "ISO Runes Project" submitted in 1997.[a]

Runic
RangeU+16A0..U+16FF
(96 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsRunic (86 char.)
Common (3 char.)
Major alphabetsFuthark
Assigned89 code points
Unused7 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.0 (1999)81 (+81)
7.0 (2014)89 (+8)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

The block is intended for the representation of text written in Elder Futhark, Anglo-Saxon runes, Younger Futhark (both in the long-branch and short-twig variants), Scandinavian medieval runes and early modern runic calendars; the additions introduced in version 7.0 in addition allow support of the mode of writing Modern English in Anglo-Saxon runes used by J. R. R. Tolkien, and the special vowel signs used in the Franks Casket inscription.[b]

Background edit

The distinction made by Unicode between character and glyph variant is somewhat problematic in the case of the runes; the reason is the high degree of variation of letter shapes in historical inscriptions, with many "characters" appearing in highly variant shapes, and many specific shapes taking the role of a number of different characters over the period of runic use (roughly the 3rd to 14th centuries AD). The division between Elder Futhark, Younger Futhark and Anglo-Saxon runes are well-established and useful categories, but they are connected by a continuum of gradual development, inscriptions using a mixture of older and newer forms of runes, etc. For this reason, the runic Unicode block is of very limited usefulness in representing of historical inscriptions and is better suited for contemporary runic writing than for palaeographic purposes.

The original publication of the Unicode standard is explicitly aware of these problems, and of the compromises necessary regarding the "character / glyph" dichotomy. The charts published show only "idealized reference glyphs", and explicitly delegates the task of creating useful implementations of the standard to font designers, ideally necessitating a separate font for each historical period.[c] Glyph shape was taken into consideration explicitly for "unification" of an older rune with one of its descendant characters.[d] On the other hand, the Younger Futhark era script variants of long-branch, and short-twig, in principle a historical instance of "glyph variants", have been encoded separately, while the further variant form of staveless runes has not.[e]

The ISO Runes Project treated the runes as essentially glyph variants of the Latin script. Everson argued that the native futhark ordering is well established, and that it is unusual for UCS to order letters not in Latin alphabetical order rather than according to native tradition, and a corresponding sorting order of the runic letter Unicode characters was adopted for ISO/IEC 14651 in 2001.[f]

Characters edit

The original 81 characters adopted for Unicode 3.0 included 75 letters, three punctuation marks and three "runic symbols".

The names given to the runic letter characters are "a bit clumsy" in a deliberate compromise between scholarly and amateur requirements. They list simplified (ASCII) representations of the three names of a "unified" rune in the Elder Futhark, the Anglo-Saxon and the Younger Futhark traditions, followed by the letter transliterating the rune (if applicable).[g] The ordering follows the basic futhark sequence, but with (non-unified) variants inserted after the standard Elder Futhark form of each letter, as follows:

Code point Rune Name Elder Futhark Anglo-Saxon Younger Futhark
(long-branch)
Younger Futhark
(short-twig)
Medieval Dalecarlian
16A0 FEHU FEOH FE F  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y
16A1 V  Y
16A2 URUZ UR U  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y
16A3 YR  Y
16A4 Y  Y
16A5 W  Y[h]
16A6 THURISAZ THURS THORN  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y
16A7 ETH  Y
16A8 ANSUZ A  Y  Y[i]
16A9 OS O  Y
16AA AC A  Y
16AB AESC  Y
16AC LONG-BRANCH-OSS O  Y
16AD SHORT-TWIG-OSS O  Y
16AE O  Y
16AF OE  Y  Y
16B0 ON  Y[j]
16B1 RAIDO RAD REID R  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y
16B2 KAUNA  Y
16B3 CEN  Y
16B4 KAUN K  Y  Y  Y  Y
16B5 G  Y
16B6 ENG  Y[k]
16B7 GEBO GYFU G  Y  Y  Y[l]
16B8 GAR  Y
16B9 WUNJO WYNN W  Y  Y  Y
16BA HAGLAZ H  Y
16BB HAEGL H  Y
16BC LONG-BRANCH-HAGALL H  Y  Y
16BD SHORT-TWIG-HAGALL H  Y
16BE NAUDIZ NYD NAUD N  Y  Y  Y
16BF SHORT-TWIG-NAUD N  Y  Y  Y
16C0 DOTTED-N  Y[m]
16C1 ISAZ IS ISS I  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y
16C2 E  Y
16C3 JERAN J  Y
16C4 GER  Y
16C5 LONG-BRANCH-AR AE  Y  Y  Y
16C6 SHORT-TWIG-AR A  Y  Y  Y
16C7 IWAZ EOH  Y  Y
16C8 PERTHO PEORTH P  Y  Y
16C9 ALGIZ EOLHX  Y  Y
16CA SOWILO S  Y
16CB SIGEL LONG-BRANCH-SOL S  Y  Y  Y  Y
16CC SHORT-TWIG-SOL S  Y  Y  Y
16CD C  Y
16CE Z  Y
16CF TIWAZ TIR TYR T  Y  Y  Y
16D0 SHORT-TWIG-TYR T  Y  Y  Y
16D1 D  Y
16D2 BERKANAN BEORC BJARKAN B  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y
16D3 SHORT-TWIG-BJARKAN B  Y
16D4 DOTTED-P  Y
16D5 OPEN-P  Y
16D6 EHWAZ EH E  Y  Y
16D7 MANNAZ MAN M  Y  Y
16D8 LONG-BRANCH-MADR M  Y  Y  Y
16D9 SHORT-TWIG-MADR M  Y  Y
16DA LAUKAZ LAGU LOGR L  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y
16DB DOTTED-L  Y[n]
16DC INGWAZ  Y
16DD ING  Y
16DE DAGAZ DAEG D  Y  Y
16DF OTHALAN ETHEL O  Y  Y
16E0 EAR  Y  Y
16E1 IOR  Y
16E2 CWEORTH  Y
16E3 CALC  Y
16E4 CEALC  Y
16E5 STAN  Y
16E6 LONG-BRANCH-YR  Y  Y  Y
16E7 SHORT-TWIG-YR  Y
16E8 ICELANDIC-YR  Y
16E9 Q  Y  Y
16EA X  Y

The three "punctuation marks" are three variant forms of separators found in runic inscriptions, one a single dot, one a double dot and one cross-shaped.

Code point Rune Name
16EB RUNIC SINGLE PUNCTUATION
16EC RUNIC MULTIPLE PUNCTUATION
16ED RUNIC CROSS PUNCTUATION

The three "runic symbols" are the Arlaug, Tvimadur and Belgthor symbols used exclusively for enumerating years in runic calendars of the early modern period.

Code point Rune Name
16EE RUNIC ARLAUG SYMBOL
16EF RUNIC TVIMADUR SYMBOL
16F0 RUNIC BELGTHOR SYMBOL

The eight additional characters introduced in Unicode 7.0 concern the Anglo-Saxon runes. Three are variant letters used by J. R. R. Tolkien to write Modern English in Anglo-Saxon runes, representing the English k, oo and sh graphemes.[o]

Code point Rune Name
16F1 RUNIC LETTER K
16F2 RUNIC LETTER SH
16F3 RUNIC LETTER OO

The five others are letter variants used in one of the Franks Casket inscriptions, "cryptogrammic" replacements for the standard Anglo-Saxon o, i, e, a and æ vowel runes.

Code point Rune Name
16F4 RUNIC LETTER FRANKS CASKET OS
16F5 RUNIC LETTER FRANKS CASKET IS
16F6 RUNIC LETTER FRANKS CASKET EH
16F7 RUNIC LETTER FRANKS CASKET AC
16F8 RUNIC LETTER FRANKS CASKET AESC

Fonts edit

Numerous Unicode fonts support the Runic block, although most of them are strictly limited to displaying a single glyph per character, often closely modeled on the shape shown in the Unicode block chart.

Free Unicode fonts that support the runic block include: Junicode, GNU FreeFont (in its monospace, bitmap face), Caslon,[citation needed] the serif font Quivira, and Babelstone Runic in its many different formats. Commercial fonts supporting the block include Alphabetum, Code2000, Everson Mono, Aboriginal Serif, Aboriginal Sans, Segoe UI Symbol, and TITUS Cyberbit Basic.

Microsoft Windows did not support the Runic block in any of its included fonts during 2000—2008, but with the release of Windows 7 in 2009, the system has been delivered with a font supporting the block, Segoe UI Symbol. In Windows 10 the Runic block was moved into the font Segoe UI Historic.[13]

Chart edit

Runic[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+16Ax
U+16Bx
U+16Cx
U+16Dx
U+16Ex
U+16Fx
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 Runic block:

Version Final code points[p] Count UTC ID L2 ID WG2 ID Document
3.0 U+16A0..16F0 81 N1210 [14]
X3L2/95-117 N1222 [15]
UTC/1995-xxx [16]
N1229 [17]
N1230 [18]
N1239 [19]
X3L2/95-090 N1253 (doc, txt) [20]
X3L2/95-118 N1262 [21]
X3L2/96-035 N1330 [22]
X3L2/96-051 N1382 [23]
N1353 [24]
UTC/1996-027.2 [25]
X3L2/96-100 N1417 (doc, txt) [26]
X3L2/96-101 N1443 [27]
N1453 [28]
X3L2/96-123 [29]
L2/97-048 N1542 [30]
N1620 [31]
L2/97-288 N1603 [32]
L2/98-077 N1695 [33]
L2/98-132 N1771 [34]
L2/98-134 N1772 [35]
N1763 [36]
L2/98-286 N1703 [37]
L2/01-023 [38]
7.0 U+16F1..16F8 8 L2/11-096R N4013R [39]
N4103 [40]
L2/12-007 [41]
N4253 (pdf, doc) [42]

Footnotes edit

  1. ^ "At the Third International Symposium on Runes and Runic Inscriptions in Valdres, Norway, in August 1990, the need to represent runes by real graphic symbols in text production of various kinds was discussed. Project meetings were held in Oslo in March 1993 and in Stockholm in November 1994 and March 1995. The proposal from the "ISO Runes Project" (cf. Digitala runor, TemaNord 1997:623, København 1997) was accepted with some minor adjustments in 2001, and Unicode now includes runic characters in accordance with the proposal."[4][5]
  2. ^ This is not to be confused with Tolkien's own Cirth script which is "runic" in appearance but has no direct relation to the historical runes. This alphabet has no official Unicode encoding (although there is a proposed ConScript Unicode Registry encoding).[6]
  3. ^ "The known inscriptions can include considerable variations of shape for a given rune, sometimes to the point where the nonspecialist will mistake the shape for a different rune. There is no dominant main form for some runes, particularly for many runes added in the Anglo-Friesian and medieval Nordic systems. When transcribing a Runic inscription into its Unicode-encoded form, one cannot rely on the idealized reference glyph shape in the character charts alone. One must take into account to which of the four Runic systems an inscription belongs, and be knowledgeable about the permitted form variations within each system. The reference glyphs were chosen to provide an image that distinguishes each rune visually from all other runes in the same system. For actual use, it might be advisable to use a separate font for each Runic system."[citation needed]
  4. ^ "When a rune in an earlier writing system evolved into several different runes in a later system, the unification of the earlier rune with one of the later runes was based on similarity in graphic form rather than similarity in sound value."[citation needed]
  5. ^ "Two sharply different graphic forms, the long-branch and the short-twig form, were used for nine of the 16 Viking Age Nordic runes. Although only one form is used in a given inscription, there are runologically important exceptions. In some cases, the two forms were used to convey different meanings in later use in the medieval system. Therefore the two forms have been separated in the Unicode Standard. ... Staveless runes are a third form of the Viking Age Nordic runes, a kind of runic shorthand. The number of known inscriptions is small and the graphic forms of many of the runes show great variability between inscriptions. For this reason, staveless runes have been unified with the corresponding Viking Age Nordic runes."[7]
  6. ^ "On 2000-12-24 Olle Järnefors published on behalf of the ISORUNES Project in Sweden a proposal for ordering the Runes in the Common Tailorable Template (CTT) of ISO/IEC 14651. In my view this ordering is unsuitable for the CTT for a number of reasons."[8][9] "Due to the summer holidays, one of our experts was unable to report back to us by the due date of 2001-09-01. While we voted positively on 2001-08-30, Ireland would like to change our vote to DISAPPROVAL, with the following technical comment:
    In the tailorable template, the Runic script is ordered according to Latin transliteration order. This produces ordering which does not fully satisfy any user community. The Runes should be reordered to the Futhark order in the tailorable template.
    Note that the SC22/WG20 minutes are ambiguous as to what should have been sent out for ballot:
    'Runes were added after 14651 cut-off. Order of the Runes in N833 are according to the preference of the ISO Runes project (Sweden). Other people, such as Everson and Ken, disagree with the ISO project and prefer the current usage on the web. Reason: academic work is done in transliterations and the order is for the transliterated characters. Everson's proposal is very close to the binary order in 10646 (Futhark) for all extensions in various countries. Transliterated order would have to be a tailoring. Current draft table shows the ISO Runes order.... Discussion about the merits of either ordering. Decision that the order stays as in the table which is the Futhark order.' [...]
    We believe that ambiguities in transliteration ordering will mean that researchers in the Nordic countries and Britain and Ireland will have to tailor ANYWAY to get a correct transliteration ordering. Therefore the not-quite-perfect transliteration order in the tailorable template serves little purpose. On the other hand, the many non-researcher users of the Runes (who far outnumber the researchers), universally prefer the Futhark order, and require no tailoring for it. Since MOST users will not need to tailor, it seems only logical that the Futhark order should be the order used in the template."[9]
  7. ^ "The names given to the Runes in the UCS may be a bit clumsy, but they are intended to serve the needs of scholars and amateurs alike; not everyone is familiar with Runic transliteration practices, and not everyone is conversant with the traditional names in Germanic, English, and Scandinavian usage. So the names concatenate those three together with the scholarly transliteration letter."[10]
  8. ^ Modern innovation, intended as representing the Latin letter W in the context of medieval runic inscriptions.[clarification needed]
  9. ^ The Anglo-Saxon æsc rune with the same shape is encoded separately, as 16AB.
  10. ^ nasal o, translitterated with ǫ
  11. ^ The 1997 ISORUNES proposed name for this was "RUNIC LETTER YOUNGER K WITH DOT", intended as representing the /ŋ/ phoneme in medieval runic inscriptions (Elder Futhark already had a separate ng-rune, sometimes shown in ligature with the i-rune (the so-called "lantern rune"[11])
  12. ^ ᚷ is an alternative stylistic representation of ᛅ in Dalecarlian use.
  13. ^ The 1997 ISORUNES proposed name for this was "RUNIC LETTER YOUNGER N WITH DOT", transliterated as N.[clarification needed]
  14. ^ The 1997 ISO Runes proposed name for this was "RUNIC LETTER YOUNGER L WITH DOT", transliterated as L.[clarification needed]
  15. ^ The k rune was published with The Hobbit (1937), e.g. for writing Tolkien's own name, as ᛁ ᚱ ᚱ ᛏᚩᛚᛱᛁᛖᚾ. His oo and sh runes are known from a postcard written to Katherine Farrer (sic, the name is mistakenly given as Ferrer by Everson and West) on 30 November 1947, published as no. 112 in The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981) ("A postcard, apparently written on 30 November 1947, using the system of runes employed in The Hobbit [...] Mrs Farrer, a writer of detective stories, was married to the theologian Austin Farrer, then Chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford.").[12]
  16. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names.

References edit

  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  3. ^ Everson, Michael; West, Andrew (10 May 2011). "Proposal to encode additional Runic characters in the UCS" (PDF). ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N4013R.
  4. ^ Gustavson, Helmer (2004) [2002]. "Nytt om runer". pp. 45–46. 17.
  5. ^ Digitala runor. Nordisk ministerråd (Nordic Council of Ministers. 1997. pp. see especially 29ff for the list of proposed characters. ISBN 9789289301404.
  6. ^ "Cirth: U+E080 - U+E0FF". ConScript Unicode Registry encoding.
  7. ^ "The Unicode Standard" (PDF) (3.0 ed.). January 2000. chapter 7.6, pp. 174–175.
  8. ^ Everson, Michael (2001). "Ordering the runic script" (PDF). ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 N809. Everson's proposal was accepted and the character sort order was changed in 2001.
  9. ^ a b LaBonté, Alain, ed. (10 February 2001). "Final disposition of comments of ballot results on PDAM-1 to ISO/IEC 14651:2001". Project editor. ISO/IEC 14651:2001. SC22/WG20. SC22/WG20 N882R.
  10. ^ Everson, "Ordering the runic script" (2001) p. 1.
  11. ^ Morris, Richard Lee (1988). Runic and Mediterranean Epigraphy. p. 130. ISBN 8774926837.
  12. ^ Everson, Michael; West, Andrew (10 May 2011). "Proposal to encode additional Runic characters in the UCS" (PDF). ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N4013R.
  13. ^ . Microsoft. Archived from the original on 13 September 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  14. ^ Proposal Concerning Inclusion of the Runic Characters (Report). 28 April 1995.[full citation needed]
  15. ^ Everson, Michael (20 May 1995). Names and ordering of the Fuþark (Runic) characters: comment on N1210 [UTC/1995-028] (Report).
  16. ^ Meeting #65 Minutes (Report). Runic Proposal. Unicode Technical Committee. 2 June 1995.
  17. ^ Response to Michael Everson comments (N 1230) on Runic (Report). 16 June 1995.[full citation needed]
  18. ^ Everson, Michael (21 June 1995). Feedback on Runic (Report).[full citation needed]
  19. ^ Ólafsson, Þorvaður Kári (23 June 1995). Icelandic position on Runic (Report).[full citation needed]
  20. ^ Umamaheswaran, V.S.; Ksar, Mike (2–27 June 1995). WG 2, Meeting #28 Minutes (Report) (Unconfirmed ed.). Helsinki, Finland (published 9 September 1995). §6.4.8.
  21. ^ Everson, Michael (19 September 1995). Consensus Name and ordering proposal for the Fuþark (Report).[full citation needed]
  22. ^ Lundström, Wera (13 March 1996). Revised Proposal Concerning Inclusion into ISO/IEC 10646 of the Repertoire of Runic Characters (Report).[full citation needed]
  23. ^ Runic Script: Description and Proposed Character Name Table (Report). 18 April 1996.[full citation needed]
  24. ^ Umamaheswaran, V.S.; Ksar, Mike (25 June 1996). WG2 Meeting #30 Minutes (Report) (Draft ed.). Copenhagen. §8.6.[full citation needed]
  25. ^ Greenfield, Steve (1 July 1996). UTC #69 Minutes (Report). Part 2, §E. Runic.[full citation needed]
  26. ^ Second Revised Proposal for Runic Character Names (Report). 23 July 1996.[full citation needed]
  27. ^ Everson, Michael; Jarnefors, Olle (4 August 1996). Allocating Ogham and Runes to the BMP: a strategy for making the BMP maximally useful (Report).[full citation needed]
  28. ^ Ksar, Mike; Umamaheswaran, V.S. (6 December 1996). WG 2 Meeting 31 Minutes (Report). Quebec. §8.6.[full citation needed]
  29. ^ Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (5–6 December 1996). UTC #71 & X3L2 #168 ad hoc meeting Minutes (Report) (Preliminary ed.). San Diego (published 18 December 1996). §4.5 Runic.[full citation needed]
  30. ^ Everson, Michael (27 March 1997). Proposed pDAM text for Runic (Report).[full citation needed]
  31. ^ Everson, Michael (3 July 1997). Runic Proposal Update (Report).[full citation needed]
  32. ^ Umamaheswaran, V.S. (20 June – 4 July 1997). WG 2 Meeting #33 Minutes (Report) (Unconfirmed ed.). Heraklion, Crete, Greece (published 24 October 1997). §8.5.[full citation needed]
  33. ^ Paterson, Bruce (22 February 1998). Proposed Disposition of Comments on SC2 letter ballot on FPDAMs 16, 19, & 20 (Braille patterns, Runic, Ogham) (Report).[full citation needed]
  34. ^ Paterson, Bruce (6 April 1998). Revised Text of ISO 10646 Amendment 19 - Runic (Report).[full citation needed]
  35. ^ Paterson, Bruce (6 April 1998). Revised Text of ISO 10646 Amendment 20 - Ogham (Report).[full citation needed]
  36. ^ Paterson, Bruce (6 April 1998). Disposition of Comments Report on SC 2 N2970: Amendment 19 - Runic (Report).[full citation needed]
  37. ^ Umamaheswaran, V.S.; Ksar, Mike (16–20 March 1998). WG 2 Meeting #34 Minutes (Report) (Unconfirmed ed.). Redmond, WA, USA (published 2 July 1998). §6.2.3 FPDAM-19 on Runic and FPDAM-20 on Ogham.[full citation needed]
  38. ^ Everson, Michael (9 January 2001). Ordering the Runic script (Report).[full citation needed]
  39. ^ Everson, Michael; West, Andrew (10 May 2011). Proposal to encode additional Runic characters in the UCS (Report).[full citation needed]
  40. ^ WG 2 meeting #58 minutes (Report) (Unconfirmed ed.). 3 January 2012. §11.9 Additional Runic characters.[full citation needed]
  41. ^ Moore, Lisa (14 February 2012). UTC #130 / L2 #227 Minutes (Report). §C.5.[full citation needed]
  42. ^ WG 2 meeting #59 minutes (Report) (Unconfirmed ed.). 12 September 2012. §M59.16l.[full citation needed]

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Runic is a Unicode block containing runic characters It was introduced in Unicode 3 0 1999 with eight additional characters introduced in Unicode 7 0 2014 3 The original encoding of runes in UCS was based on the recommendations of the ISO Runes Project submitted in 1997 a RunicRangeU 16A0 U 16FF 96 code points PlaneBMPScriptsRunic 86 char Common 3 char Major alphabetsFutharkAssigned89 code pointsUnused7 reserved code pointsUnicode version history3 0 1999 81 81 7 0 2014 89 8 Unicode documentationCode chart Web pageNote 1 2 The block is intended for the representation of text written in Elder Futhark Anglo Saxon runes Younger Futhark both in the long branch and short twig variants Scandinavian medieval runes and early modern runic calendars the additions introduced in version 7 0 in addition allow support of the mode of writing Modern English in Anglo Saxon runes used by J R R Tolkien and the special vowel signs used in the Franks Casket inscription b Contents 1 Background 2 Characters 3 Fonts 4 Chart 5 History 6 Footnotes 7 ReferencesBackground editThe distinction made by Unicode between character and glyph variant is somewhat problematic in the case of the runes the reason is the high degree of variation of letter shapes in historical inscriptions with many characters appearing in highly variant shapes and many specific shapes taking the role of a number of different characters over the period of runic use roughly the 3rd to 14th centuries AD The division between Elder Futhark Younger Futhark and Anglo Saxon runes are well established and useful categories but they are connected by a continuum of gradual development inscriptions using a mixture of older and newer forms of runes etc For this reason the runic Unicode block is of very limited usefulness in representing of historical inscriptions and is better suited for contemporary runic writing than for palaeographic purposes The original publication of the Unicode standard is explicitly aware of these problems and of the compromises necessary regarding the character glyph dichotomy The charts published show only idealized reference glyphs and explicitly delegates the task of creating useful implementations of the standard to font designers ideally necessitating a separate font for each historical period c Glyph shape was taken into consideration explicitly for unification of an older rune with one of its descendant characters d On the other hand the Younger Futhark era script variants of long branch and short twig in principle a historical instance of glyph variants have been encoded separately while the further variant form of staveless runes has not e The ISO Runes Project treated the runes as essentially glyph variants of the Latin script Everson argued that the native futhark ordering is well established and that it is unusual for UCS to order letters not in Latin alphabetical order rather than according to native tradition and a corresponding sorting order of the runic letter Unicode characters was adopted for ISO IEC 14651 in 2001 f Characters editThe original 81 characters adopted for Unicode 3 0 included 75 letters three punctuation marks and three runic symbols The names given to the runic letter characters are a bit clumsy in a deliberate compromise between scholarly and amateur requirements They list simplified ASCII representations of the three names of a unified rune in the Elder Futhark the Anglo Saxon and the Younger Futhark traditions followed by the letter transliterating the rune if applicable g The ordering follows the basic futhark sequence but with non unified variants inserted after the standard Elder Futhark form of each letter as follows Code point Rune Name Elder Futhark Anglo Saxon Younger Futhark long branch Younger Futhark short twig Medieval Dalecarlian16A0 ᚠ FEHU FEOH FE F nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y16A1 ᚡ V nbsp Y16A2 ᚢ URUZ UR U nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y16A3 ᚣ YR nbsp Y16A4 ᚤ Y nbsp Y16A5 ᚥ W nbsp Y h 16A6 ᚦ THURISAZ THURS THORN nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y16A7 ᚧ ETH nbsp Y16A8 ᚨ ANSUZ A nbsp Y nbsp Y i 16A9 ᚩ OS O nbsp Y16AA ᚪ AC A nbsp Y16AB ᚫ AESC nbsp Y16AC ᚬ LONG BRANCH OSS O nbsp Y16AD ᚭ SHORT TWIG OSS O nbsp Y16AE ᚮ O nbsp Y16AF ᚯ OE nbsp Y nbsp Y16B0 ᚰ ON nbsp Y j 16B1 ᚱ RAIDO RAD REID R nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y16B2 ᚲ KAUNA nbsp Y16B3 ᚳ CEN nbsp Y16B4 ᚴ KAUN K nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y16B5 ᚵ G nbsp Y16B6 ᚶ ENG nbsp Y k 16B7 ᚷ GEBO GYFU G nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y l 16B8 ᚸ GAR nbsp Y16B9 ᚹ WUNJO WYNN W nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y16BA ᚺ HAGLAZ H nbsp Y16BB ᚻ HAEGL H nbsp Y16BC ᚼ LONG BRANCH HAGALL H nbsp Y nbsp Y16BD ᚽ SHORT TWIG HAGALL H nbsp Y16BE ᚾ NAUDIZ NYD NAUD N nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y16BF ᚿ SHORT TWIG NAUD N nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y16C0 ᛀ DOTTED N nbsp Y m 16C1 ᛁ ISAZ IS ISS I nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y16C2 ᛂ E nbsp Y16C3 ᛃ JERAN J nbsp Y16C4 ᛄ GER nbsp Y16C5 ᛅ LONG BRANCH AR AE nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y16C6 ᛆ SHORT TWIG AR A nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y16C7 ᛇ IWAZ EOH nbsp Y nbsp Y16C8 ᛈ PERTHO PEORTH P nbsp Y nbsp Y16C9 ᛉ ALGIZ EOLHX nbsp Y nbsp Y16CA ᛊ SOWILO S nbsp Y16CB ᛋ SIGEL LONG BRANCH SOL S nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y16CC ᛌ SHORT TWIG SOL S nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y16CD ᛍ C nbsp Y16CE ᛎ Z nbsp Y16CF ᛏ TIWAZ TIR TYR T nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y16D0 ᛐ SHORT TWIG TYR T nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y16D1 ᛑ D nbsp Y16D2 ᛒ BERKANAN BEORC BJARKAN B nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y16D3 ᛓ SHORT TWIG BJARKAN B nbsp Y16D4 ᛔ DOTTED P nbsp Y16D5 ᛕ OPEN P nbsp Y16D6 ᛖ EHWAZ EH E nbsp Y nbsp Y16D7 ᛗ MANNAZ MAN M nbsp Y nbsp Y16D8 ᛘ LONG BRANCH MADR M nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y16D9 ᛙ SHORT TWIG MADR M nbsp Y nbsp Y16DA ᛚ LAUKAZ LAGU LOGR L nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y16DB ᛛ DOTTED L nbsp Y n 16DC ᛜ INGWAZ nbsp Y16DD ᛝ ING nbsp Y16DE ᛞ DAGAZ DAEG D nbsp Y nbsp Y16DF ᛟ OTHALAN ETHEL O nbsp Y nbsp Y16E0 ᛠ EAR nbsp Y nbsp Y16E1 ᛡ IOR nbsp Y16E2 ᛢ CWEORTH nbsp Y16E3 ᛣ CALC nbsp Y16E4 ᛤ CEALC nbsp Y16E5 ᛥ STAN nbsp Y16E6 ᛦ LONG BRANCH YR nbsp Y nbsp Y nbsp Y16E7 ᛧ SHORT TWIG YR nbsp Y16E8 ᛨ ICELANDIC YR nbsp Y16E9 ᛩ Q nbsp Y nbsp Y16EA ᛪ X nbsp YThe three punctuation marks are three variant forms of separators found in runic inscriptions one a single dot one a double dot and one cross shaped Code point Rune Name16EB RUNIC SINGLE PUNCTUATION16EC RUNIC MULTIPLE PUNCTUATION16ED RUNIC CROSS PUNCTUATIONThe three runic symbols are the Arlaug Tvimadur and Belgthor symbols used exclusively for enumerating years in runic calendars of the early modern period Code point Rune Name16EE RUNIC ARLAUG SYMBOL16EF RUNIC TVIMADUR SYMBOL16F0 RUNIC BELGTHOR SYMBOLThe eight additional characters introduced in Unicode 7 0 concern the Anglo Saxon runes Three are variant letters used by J R R Tolkien to write Modern English in Anglo Saxon runes representing the English k oo and sh graphemes o Code point Rune Name16F1 ᛱ RUNIC LETTER K16F2 ᛲ RUNIC LETTER SH16F3 ᛳ RUNIC LETTER OOThe five others are letter variants used in one of the Franks Casket inscriptions cryptogrammic replacements for the standard Anglo Saxon o i e a and ae vowel runes Code point Rune Name16F4 ᛴ RUNIC LETTER FRANKS CASKET OS16F5 ᛵ RUNIC LETTER FRANKS CASKET IS16F6 ᛶ RUNIC LETTER FRANKS CASKET EH16F7 ᛷ RUNIC LETTER FRANKS CASKET AC16F8 ᛸ RUNIC LETTER FRANKS CASKET AESCFonts editNumerous Unicode fonts support the Runic block although most of them are strictly limited to displaying a single glyph per character often closely modeled on the shape shown in the Unicode block chart Free Unicode fonts that support the runic block include Junicode GNU FreeFont in its monospace bitmap face Caslon citation needed the serif font Quivira and Babelstone Runic in its many different formats Commercial fonts supporting the block include Alphabetum Code2000 Everson Mono Aboriginal Serif Aboriginal Sans Segoe UI Symbol and TITUS Cyberbit Basic Microsoft Windows did not support the Runic block in any of its included fonts during 2000 2008 but with the release of Windows 7 in 2009 the system has been delivered with a font supporting the block Segoe UI Symbol In Windows 10 the Runic block was moved into the font Segoe UI Historic 13 Chart editRunic 1 2 Official Unicode Consortium code chart PDF 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E FU 16Ax ᚠ ᚡ ᚢ ᚣ ᚤ ᚥ ᚦ ᚧ ᚨ ᚩ ᚪ ᚫ ᚬ ᚭ ᚮ ᚯU 16Bx ᚰ ᚱ ᚲ ᚳ ᚴ ᚵ ᚶ ᚷ ᚸ ᚹ ᚺ ᚻ ᚼ ᚽ ᚾ ᚿU 16Cx ᛀ ᛁ ᛂ ᛃ ᛄ ᛅ ᛆ ᛇ ᛈ ᛉ ᛊ ᛋ ᛌ ᛍ ᛎ ᛏU 16Dx ᛐ ᛑ ᛒ ᛓ ᛔ ᛕ ᛖ ᛗ ᛘ ᛙ ᛚ ᛛ ᛜ ᛝ ᛞ ᛟU 16Ex ᛠ ᛡ ᛢ ᛣ ᛤ ᛥ ᛦ ᛧ ᛨ ᛩ ᛪ U 16Fx ᛱ ᛲ ᛳ ᛴ ᛵ ᛶ ᛷ ᛸNotes 1 As of Unicode version 15 1 2 Grey areas indicate non assigned code pointsHistory editThe following Unicode related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Runic block Version Final code points p Count UTC ID L2 ID WG2 ID Document3 0 U 16A0 16F0 81 N1210 14 X3L2 95 117 N1222 15 UTC 1995 xxx 16 N1229 17 N1230 18 N1239 19 X3L2 95 090 N1253 doc txt 20 X3L2 95 118 N1262 21 X3L2 96 035 N1330 22 X3L2 96 051 N1382 23 N1353 24 UTC 1996 027 2 25 X3L2 96 100 N1417 doc txt 26 X3L2 96 101 N1443 27 N1453 28 X3L2 96 123 29 L2 97 048 N1542 30 N1620 31 L2 97 288 N1603 32 L2 98 077 N1695 33 L2 98 132 N1771 34 L2 98 134 N1772 35 N1763 36 L2 98 286 N1703 37 L2 01 023 38 7 0 U 16F1 16F8 8 L2 11 096R N4013R 39 N4103 40 L2 12 007 41 N4253 pdf doc 42 Footnotes edit At the Third International Symposium on Runes and Runic Inscriptions in Valdres Norway in August 1990 the need to represent runes by real graphic symbols in text production of various kinds was discussed Project meetings were held in Oslo in March 1993 and in Stockholm in November 1994 and March 1995 The proposal from the ISO Runes Project cf Digitala runor TemaNord 1997 623 Kobenhavn 1997 was accepted with some minor adjustments in 2001 and Unicode now includes runic characters in accordance with the proposal 4 5 This is not to be confused with Tolkien s own Cirth script which is runic in appearance but has no direct relation to the historical runes This alphabet has no official Unicode encoding although there is a proposed ConScript Unicode Registry encoding 6 The known inscriptions can include considerable variations of shape for a given rune sometimes to the point where the nonspecialist will mistake the shape for a different rune There is no dominant main form for some runes particularly for many runes added in the Anglo Friesian and medieval Nordic systems When transcribing a Runic inscription into its Unicode encoded form one cannot rely on the idealized reference glyph shape in the character charts alone One must take into account to which of the four Runic systems an inscription belongs and be knowledgeable about the permitted form variations within each system The reference glyphs were chosen to provide an image that distinguishes each rune visually from all other runes in the same system For actual use it might be advisable to use a separate font for each Runic system citation needed When a rune in an earlier writing system evolved into several different runes in a later system the unification of the earlier rune with one of the later runes was based on similarity in graphic form rather than similarity in sound value citation needed Two sharply different graphic forms the long branch and the short twig form were used for nine of the 16 Viking Age Nordic runes Although only one form is used in a given inscription there are runologically important exceptions In some cases the two forms were used to convey different meanings in later use in the medieval system Therefore the two forms have been separated in the Unicode Standard Staveless runes are a third form of the Viking Age Nordic runes a kind of runic shorthand The number of known inscriptions is small and the graphic forms of many of the runes show great variability between inscriptions For this reason staveless runes have been unified with the corresponding Viking Age Nordic runes 7 On 2000 12 24 Olle Jarnefors published on behalf of the ISORUNES Project in Sweden a proposal for ordering the Runes in the Common Tailorable Template CTT of ISO IEC 14651 In my view this ordering is unsuitable for the CTT for a number of reasons 8 9 Due to the summer holidays one of our experts was unable to report back to us by the due date of 2001 09 01 While we voted positively on 2001 08 30 Ireland would like to change our vote to DISAPPROVAL with the following technical comment In the tailorable template the Runic script is ordered according to Latin transliteration order This produces ordering which does not fully satisfy any user community The Runes should be reordered to the Futhark order in the tailorable template Note that the SC22 WG20 minutes are ambiguous as to what should have been sent out for ballot Runes were added after 14651 cut off Order of the Runes in N833 are according to the preference of the ISO Runes project Sweden Other people such as Everson and Ken disagree with the ISO project and prefer the current usage on the web Reason academic work is done in transliterations and the order is for the transliterated characters Everson s proposal is very close to the binary order in 10646 Futhark for all extensions in various countries Transliterated order would have to be a tailoring Current draft table shows the ISO Runes order Discussion about the merits of either ordering Decision that the order stays as in the table which is the Futhark order We believe that ambiguities in transliteration ordering will mean that researchers in the Nordic countries and Britain and Ireland will have to tailor ANYWAY to get a correct transliteration ordering Therefore the not quite perfect transliteration order in the tailorable template serves little purpose On the other hand the many non researcher users of the Runes who far outnumber the researchers universally prefer the Futhark order and require no tailoring for it Since MOST users will not need to tailor it seems only logical that the Futhark order should be the order used in the template 9 The names given to the Runes in the UCS may be a bit clumsy but they are intended to serve the needs of scholars and amateurs alike not everyone is familiar with Runic transliteration practices and not everyone is conversant with the traditional names in Germanic English and Scandinavian usage So the names concatenate those three together with the scholarly transliteration letter 10 Modern innovation intended as representing the Latin letter W in the context of medieval runic inscriptions clarification needed The Anglo Saxon aesc rune with the same shape is encoded separately as 16AB nasal o translitterated with ǫ The 1997 ISORUNES proposed name for this was RUNIC LETTER YOUNGER K WITH DOT intended as representing the ŋ phoneme in medieval runic inscriptions Elder Futhark already had a separate ng rune sometimes shown in ligature with the i rune the so called lantern rune 11 ᚷ is an alternative stylistic representation of ᛅ in Dalecarlian use The 1997 ISORUNES proposed name for this was RUNIC LETTER YOUNGER N WITH DOT transliterated as N clarification needed The 1997 ISO Runes proposed name for this was RUNIC LETTER YOUNGER L WITH DOT transliterated as L clarification needed The k rune was published with The Hobbit 1937 e g for writing Tolkien s own name as ᛁ ᚱ ᚱ ᛏᚩᛚᛱᛁᛖᚾ His oo and sh runes are known from a postcard written to Katherine Farrer sic the name is mistakenly given as Ferrer by Everson and West on 30 November 1947 published as no 112 in The Letters of J R R Tolkien 1981 A postcard apparently written on 30 November 1947 using the system of runes employed in The Hobbit Mrs Farrer a writer of detective stories was married to the theologian Austin Farrer then Chaplain of Trinity College Oxford 12 Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names References edit Unicode character database The Unicode Standard Retrieved 26 July 2023 Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard The Unicode Standard Retrieved 26 July 2023 Everson Michael West Andrew 10 May 2011 Proposal to encode additional Runic characters in the UCS PDF ISO IEC JTC1 SC2 WG2 N4013R Gustavson Helmer 2004 2002 Nytt om runer pp 45 46 17 Digitala runor Nordisk ministerrad Nordic Council of Ministers 1997 pp see especially 29ff for the list of proposed characters ISBN 9789289301404 Cirth U E080 U E0FF ConScript Unicode Registry encoding The Unicode Standard PDF 3 0 ed January 2000 chapter 7 6 pp 174 175 Everson Michael 2001 Ordering the runic script PDF ISO IEC JTC1 SC22 WG20 N809 Everson s proposal was accepted and the character sort order was changed in 2001 a b LaBonte Alain ed 10 February 2001 Final disposition of comments of ballot results on PDAM 1 to ISO IEC 14651 2001 Project editor ISO IEC 14651 2001 SC22 WG20 SC22 WG20 N882R Everson Ordering the runic script 2001 p 1 Morris Richard Lee 1988 Runic and Mediterranean Epigraphy p 130 ISBN 8774926837 Everson Michael West Andrew 10 May 2011 Proposal to encode additional Runic characters in the UCS PDF ISO IEC JTC1 SC2 WG2 N4013R Script and Font Support in Windows Microsoft Archived from the original on 13 September 2015 Retrieved 4 September 2015 Proposal Concerning Inclusion of the Runic Characters Report 28 April 1995 full citation needed Everson Michael 20 May 1995 Names and ordering of the Futhark Runic characters comment on N1210 UTC 1995 028 Report Meeting 65 Minutes Report Runic Proposal Unicode Technical Committee 2 June 1995 Response to Michael Everson comments N 1230 on Runic Report 16 June 1995 full citation needed Everson Michael 21 June 1995 Feedback on Runic Report full citation needed olafsson THorvadur Kari 23 June 1995 Icelandic position on Runic Report full citation needed Umamaheswaran V S Ksar Mike 2 27 June 1995 WG 2 Meeting 28 Minutes Report Unconfirmed ed Helsinki Finland published 9 September 1995 6 4 8 Everson Michael 19 September 1995 Consensus Name and ordering proposal for the Futhark Report full citation needed Lundstrom Wera 13 March 1996 Revised Proposal Concerning Inclusion into ISO IEC 10646 of the Repertoire of Runic Characters Report full citation needed Runic Script Description and Proposed Character Name Table Report 18 April 1996 full citation needed Umamaheswaran V S Ksar Mike 25 June 1996 WG2 Meeting 30 Minutes Report Draft ed Copenhagen 8 6 full citation needed Greenfield Steve 1 July 1996 UTC 69 Minutes Report Part 2 E Runic full citation needed Second Revised Proposal for Runic Character Names Report 23 July 1996 full citation needed Everson Michael Jarnefors Olle 4 August 1996 Allocating Ogham and Runes to the BMP a strategy for making the BMP maximally useful Report full citation needed Ksar Mike Umamaheswaran V S 6 December 1996 WG 2 Meeting 31 Minutes Report Quebec 8 6 full citation needed Aliprand Joan Winkler Arnold 5 6 December 1996 UTC 71 amp X3L2 168 ad hoc meeting Minutes Report Preliminary ed San Diego published 18 December 1996 4 5 Runic full citation needed Everson Michael 27 March 1997 Proposed pDAM text for Runic Report full citation needed Everson Michael 3 July 1997 Runic Proposal Update Report full citation needed Umamaheswaran V S 20 June 4 July 1997 WG 2 Meeting 33 Minutes Report Unconfirmed ed Heraklion Crete Greece published 24 October 1997 8 5 full citation needed Paterson Bruce 22 February 1998 Proposed Disposition of Comments on SC2 letter ballot on FPDAMs 16 19 amp 20 Braille patterns Runic Ogham Report full citation needed Paterson Bruce 6 April 1998 Revised Text of ISO 10646 Amendment 19 Runic Report full citation needed Paterson Bruce 6 April 1998 Revised Text of ISO 10646 Amendment 20 Ogham Report full citation needed Paterson Bruce 6 April 1998 Disposition of Comments Report on SC 2 N2970 Amendment 19 Runic Report full citation needed Umamaheswaran V S Ksar Mike 16 20 March 1998 WG 2 Meeting 34 Minutes Report Unconfirmed ed Redmond WA USA published 2 July 1998 6 2 3 FPDAM 19 on Runic and FPDAM 20 on Ogham full citation needed Everson Michael 9 January 2001 Ordering the Runic script Report full citation needed Everson Michael West Andrew 10 May 2011 Proposal to encode additional Runic characters in the UCS Report full citation needed WG 2 meeting 58 minutes Report Unconfirmed ed 3 January 2012 11 9 Additional Runic characters full citation needed Moore Lisa 14 February 2012 UTC 130 L2 227 Minutes Report C 5 full citation needed WG 2 meeting 59 minutes Report Unconfirmed ed 12 September 2012 M59 16l full citation needed Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Runic Unicode block amp oldid 1212574395, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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