A Character Unified Proposal

for Ethiopian Script


Working Group

The efforts that this proposal embodies were initiated on January 23rd, 1995. The objective of the proposal working group has been to follow up previous efforts and resolve lingering issues of the Unicode Standard for Ethiopian Script.
            Yitna Firdyiwek      Northern Virginia Community College /
                                 Committee for Standardization of Ethiopian Script

            Yonas Fisseha        Motorola / Admas Concepts

            Daniel Yacob         Indiana University / PADIS


Table of Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Recommendation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Encoding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Sorting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Extension Region. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Appendix A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Character Name List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Character Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3a
Section 2 : Glyph Variants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Section 3 : Uncoded Characters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Appendix B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Appendix C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
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Last Update 08 / 10 / 95