Greek and Coptic
| Greek and Coptic | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+0370..U+03FF (144 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts |
Greek (117 char.) Coptic (14 char.) Common (4 char.) |
| Major alphabets | Greek |
| Assigned | 135 code points |
| Unused | 9 reserved code points |
| Source standards | ISO 8859-7 |
| Unicode version history | |
| 1.0.0 | 112 (+112) |
| 1.0.1 | 103 (-9) |
| 1.1 | 105 (+2) |
| 3.0 | 110 (+5) |
| 3.1 | 112 (+2) |
| 3.2 | 115 (+3) |
| 4.0 | 120 (+5) |
| 4.1 | 124 (+4) |
| 5.0 | 127 (+3) |
| 5.1 | 134 (+7) |
| 7.0 | 135 (+1) |
| Note: | |
Greek and Coptic is the Unicode block for representing modern (monotonic) Greek. It was originally used for writing Coptic, using the similar Greek letters, in addition to the uniquely Coptic additions. Beginning with version 4.1 of the Unicode Standard, a separate Coptic block has been included in Unicode, allowing for mixed Greek/Coptic text that is stylistically contrastive, as is convention in scholarly works. Writing polytonic Greek requires the use of combining characters or the precomposed vowel + tone characters in the Greek Extended character block.
In Unicode 1.0.1, a number of changes were made to this block in order to make Unicode 1.0.1 a proper subset of ISO 10646.
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Greek and Coptic block:
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