Shavian (Unicode block)

Shavian is a Unicode block containing characters of the Shavian alphabet (also known as the Shaw alphabet), an orthography invented to write English phonemically and funded by the will of George Bernard Shaw. The Shavian block was derived from an earlier private use encoding in the ConScript Unicode Registry, like the Deseret and Phaistos Disc encodings.

Shavian^[1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
U+1045x	𐑐	𐑑	𐑒	𐑓	𐑔	𐑕	𐑖	𐑗	𐑘	𐑙	𐑚	𐑛	𐑜	𐑝	𐑞	𐑟
U+1046x	𐑠	𐑡	𐑢	𐑣	𐑤	𐑥	𐑦	𐑧	𐑨	𐑩	𐑪	𐑫	𐑬	𐑭	𐑮	𐑯
U+1047x	𐑰	𐑱	𐑲	𐑳	𐑴	𐑵	𐑶	𐑷	𐑸	𐑹	𐑺	𐑻	𐑼	𐑽	𐑾	𐑿
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1

History[edit]

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Shavian block:

Version	Final code points^[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
4.0	U+10450..1047F	48	L2/97-103		Jenkins, John H. (1997-05-21), Proposal to add Shavian to ISO/IEC 10646
				N1576	Proposal to add Shavian, 1997-05-21
			L2/97-288	N1603	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "8.24.2", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June - 4 July 1997
			L2/01-256	N2362	Everson, Michael; Jenkins, John (2001-06-03), Proposal for encoding the Shavian script in the SMP of the UCS
			L2/01-285	N2362R	Everson, Michael; Jenkins, John (2001-07-14), Revised proposal for encoding the Shavian script in the SMP of the UCS
			L2/01-295R		Moore, Lisa (2001-11-06), "Motion 88-M7", Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting #88, The UTC approves encoding the Shavian script at 10450..1047F.
^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.