| 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: [1][2][3] | |
Greek and Coptic is the Unicode block for representing modern (monotonic) Greek. It was originally also used for writing Coptic,[1] 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.
Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was simply Greek, although Coptic letters were already included.[4]
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