Greek and Coptic
Greek and Coptic is the Unicode block for representing modern (monotonic) Greek. It was originally also 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.
| 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 (1991) | 112 (+112) |
| 1.0.1 (1992) | 103 (-9) |
| 1.1 (1993) | 105 (+2) |
| 3.0 (1999) | 110 (+5) |
| 3.1 (2001) | 112 (+2) |
| 3.2 (2002) | 115 (+3) |
| 4.0 (2003) | 120 (+5) |
| 4.1 (2005) | 124 (+4) |
| 5.0 (2006) | 127 (+3) |
| 5.1 (2008) | 134 (+7) |
| 7.0 (2014) | 135 (+1) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: | |
Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was simply Greek, although Coptic letters were already included.
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