JTC1/SC2/WG2 N2642

L2/03-324
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2
PROPOSAL SUMMARY FORM TO ACCOMPANY SUBMISSIONSFOR ADDITIONS TO THE REPERTOIRE OF ISO/IEC 106461
Please fill all the sections A, B and C below.
(Please read Principles and Procedures Document for guidelines and details before filling this form.)
See http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/summaryform.html for latest Form.
See http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/principles.html for latest Principles and Procedures document.
See http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/roadmaps.html for latest roadmaps.

A. Administrative
1. Title: Proposal to encode additional Greek editorial and punctuation characters in the UCS
2. Requester's name:
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, (University of California, Irvine)
3. Requester type (Member body/Liaison/Individual contribution):
Expert contribution
4. Submission date:
Oct. 6, 2003
5. Requester's reference (if applicable):
6. (Choose one of the following:)
This is a complete proposal:
YESor,More information will be provided later:
B. Technical - General
1. (Choose one of the following:)
a. This proposal is for a new script (set of characters):______________
Proposed name of script:_________________________________________________________.
b. The proposal is for addition of character(s) to an existing block:
YES
Name of the existing block: 3 characters in Combining Diacritical Marks; 11 characters in

Supplemental Punctuation (2E10-2E1A); 3 characters in the Greek and Coptic Block (03FC-03FE)
17C

2. Number of characters in proposal:
3. Proposed category (see section II, Character Categories):
4. Proposed Level of Implementation (1, 2 or 3) (see clause 14, ISO/IEC 10646-1: 2000):

Level 3 for Diacritical Marks; Level 1 for other characters
Is a rationale provided for the choice?
YES
If Yes, reference:Contains combining marks
5. Is a repertoire including character names provided?
Yesa. If YES, are the names in accordance with the 'character naming guidelines
in Annex L of ISO/IEC 10646-1: 2000?
Yes
b. Are the character shapes attached in a legible form suitable for review?
Yes
6. Who will provide the appropriate computerized font (ordered preference: True Type, or PostScript format) for
publishing the standard?
David Perry and TLG Project (True Type)If available now, identify source(s) for the font (include address, e-mail, ftp-site, etc.) and indicate the tools
used:
TLG Project, mcpantel@uci.edu
7. References:a. Are references (to other character sets, dictionaries, descriptive texts etc.) provided?
Yesb. Are published examples of use (such as samples from newspapers, magazines, or other sources)of proposed characters attached?
Yes
8. Special encoding issues:

Does the proposal address other aspects of character data processing (if applicable) such as input,presentation, sorting, searching, indexing, transliteration etc. (if yes please enclose information)? No
9. Additional Information:
Submitters are invited to provide any additional information about Properties of the proposed Character(s) or Script that will assist in correctunderstanding of and correct linguistic processing of the proposed character(s) or script. Examples of such properties are: Casing information,
Numeric information, Currency information, Display behaviour information such as line breaks, widths etc., Combining behaviour, Spacing
behaviour, Directional behaviour, Default Collation behaviour, relevance in Mark Up contexts, Compatibility equivalence and other Unicode
normalization related information. See the Unicode standard at http://www.unicode.org for such information on other scripts. Also see
http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeCharacterDatabase.html and associated Unicode Technical Reports for information neededfor consideration by the Unicode Technical Committee for inclusion in the Unicode Standard.

C. Technical - Justification1

Form number: N2352-F (Original 1994-10-14; Revised 1995-01, 1995-04, 1996-04, 1996-08, 1999-03, 2001-05, 2001-09)

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1. Has this proposal for addition of character(s) been submitted before?
NoIf YES explain _________________________________________________________________________
2. Has contact been made to members of the user community (for example: National Body,user groups of the script or characters, other experts, etc.)?
______________
If YES, with whom? Proposal has been reviewed by Professors Roger Bagnall, Columbia University,
John Oates, Duke University, William Johnson, University of Cincinnati, Michael Haslam, University of California, Los
Angeles. Earlier versions of this proposals have been posted online and received comments by members of the profession.
3. Information on the user community for the proposed characters (for example:
size, demographics, information technology use, or publishing use) is included?
Scholarly community
Reference: ___________________________________________________________________________
4. The context of use for the proposed characters (type of use; common or rare)
Use varies
Reference: ___________________________________________________________________________
5. Are the proposed characters in current use by the user community? Yes. Characters are present in various editions of Greek
texts and used extensively by scholars of Greek. General references provided in attached bibliography.
If YES, where? Reference: ______________________________________________________________
6. After giving due considerations to the principles in Principles and Procedures document (a WG 2 standingdocument) must the proposed characters be entirely in the BMP?
Yes
If YES, is a rationale provided?
Accordance with the Roadmap.
If YES, reference: ________________________________________________________
7. Should the proposed characters be kept together in a contiguous range (rather than being scattered)?
Preferably
8. Can any of the proposed characters be considered a presentation form of an existing
character or character sequence?
NoIf YES, is a rationale for its inclusion provided?
______________
If YES, reference: ________________________________________________________
9. Can any of the proposed characters be encoded using a composed character sequence of either
existing characters or other proposed characters?
NoIf YES, is a rationale for its inclusion provided?
______________
If YES, reference:______________
10. Can any of the proposed character(s) be considered to be similar (in appearanceor function) to an existing character? Two characters are similar but not identical to 1FED and IFEEIf YES, is a rationale for its inclusion provided?
If YES, reference: ________________________________________________________
11. Does the proposal include use of combining characters and/or use of composite sequences(see clauses 4.12 and 4.14 in ISO/IEC 10646-1: 2000)?
Yes, characters 1-3
If YES, is a rationale for such use provided?
Are combining marks
If YES, reference: _______________________________________________________Is a list of composite sequences and their corresponding glyph images (graphic symbols)
provided?
No
If YES, reference: _______________________________________________________
12. Does the proposal contain characters with any special properties such as
control function or similar semantics?
Greek Paragraphos. See footnote 3 in the proposal
If YES, describe in detail (include attachment if necessary)______________

13. Does the proposal contain any Ideographic compatibility character(s)?
No
If YES, is the equivalent corresponding unified ideographic character(s) identified? ____________
If YES, reference: ________________________________________________________-2-

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ProposalAncient Greek scribes generally wrote in continuous uppercase letters without separating letters intowords. On occasion the scribe added in punctuation to indicate the end of a sentence, change of speakeror, that two words which could be read as one word, were in fact separate words. Editorial andpunctuation characters appear abundantly in surviving papyri and when possible have been rendered inmodern typography.
When punctuation is present, it falls into one of two kinds: (1) marginal or semi-marginal characterswhich mark the end of a section of text (e.g. Coronis, Paragraphos); (2) characters mixed in with the text
to mark pauses, end of sense, or separation between words (e.g. Stigme, Hypodiastole).
A number of editorial characters are attributed to and named after Aristarchos of Samothrace (c. 216-144
2BCE), fifth head of the Library at Alexandria. Aristarchos is known to have provided a major edition ofthe works of Homer, which forms the basis of our modern editions. For a complete list of the extant
papyri containing these characters, see McNamee (1992) 28-9.

Character Properties
The properties of the three additions to the Combining Diacritical Marks block are all “Mn”.
The propeties of the 11 additions to the Supplemental Punctuation block are “Po”.
The three additions to the Greek and Coptic block are “So.”

Bibliography
Grenfell, B.P. & Hunt, A.S. et al, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, multiple volumes (London, 1898 - onwards)
Kenyon F.G. & Bell H.I., Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (Nos. 485—1331) (London, 1907)
Kenyon, F.G., The Palaeography of Greek Papyri. (Oxford, 1899)
Kenyon, F.G., “Abbreviations and Symbols in Greek Papyri” in Oikonomides, A. N. (ed), Abbreviations
in Greek Inscriptions: Papyri, Manuscripts and Early Printed Books (Chicago, 1974)
Lockwood, J.F., Browning, R. Wilson, N.G. “Aristarchus” in OCD3 (1996) 159
Lockwood, J.F., Browning, R. Wilson, N.G. “Zenodotus” in OCD3 (1996) 1653-6
McNamee, K., Sigla and Select Marginalia in Greek Literary Papyri. (Papyrologica Bruxellensia 26)(Brussels, 1992)
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, Beta Code Manual (University of California, Irvine, 2002)
Turner, E.G. with Parsons, P.J., Greek Manuscripts of the Ancient World 2nd ed. (London, 1987)
Wace, A.J.B. & Stubbings, F.H., A Companion to Homer (London, 1962)
Wattenbach, W., Anleitung zur Griechischen Palaeographie. 3rd ed. (Leipzig, 1987)
Zimmermann, F., Griechische Roman-Papyri und verwandte Texte (Heidelberg, 1936)

2Lockwood, J.F., Browning, R. Wilson, N.G. “Aristarchus” in OCD3 (1996) 159-3-Proposal for the Universal Character Set

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Ancient Greek Combining Diacritical Marks, General Punctuation
and Additions to the Greek and Coptic Block
Combining Diacritical Marks
Name
Amended Accents

Unicode1

Combining Dotted Grave Accent

Similar, but not identical to 1FEE

2

Combining Dotted Acute Accent

Similar, but not identical to 1FED

Combining Double Breve Below· Greek Papyrological Hyphen

Comments

Word Joiner
3

Supplemental Punctuation
Section and Pause Markers, Word Separators
4

Note: name ‘Editorial Coronis’ used to distinguish character from
1FBD (Greek Koronis)

Editorial Coronis

Many glyph variants. Three basic forms:

,

and

5

Paragraphos36Forked Paragraphos

Glyph variant:7

Reversed Forked Paragraphos

Glyph variant:

Tricolon

Similar to 22EE, but with different properties.

9Quintuple Colon=Greek Pentoklion. Unifiable with (Glagolithic block)10

Hypodiastole

Not the same as 002C (see example below)

8⋮.

Text Highlighters and Markers
11Ɔ

Reversed Greek Capital Lunate Sigma
Symbol12

Dotted Obelos

13

Downwards Ancora

14Upwards Ancora= Greek Antisigma
Many glyph variants, including, ÷, ∸ .

See McNamee 37 for a complete list.

Aristarchean Editorial Notation
15
16
17= Diple Periestigmene
Glyph variants:
andDotted Right-Pointing Angle
Dotted Greek Capital Lunate Sigma
SymbolReversed Dotted Greek Capital Lunate
Sigma Symbol

3= Sigma Periestigmenon= Antisigma Periestigmenon

The Greek paragraphos is placed at the beginning of the line but it may refer to a break in the text at any point in theline. Therefore, it should not be treated as a combining character--such as an underscore--and placed under the firstcharacter in the line. The Paragraphos should rather be a horizontal line generally stretching under the first one and ahalf letters of the line it refers to, and possibly extending into the margin. It should be given a no-space line of its own.

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TABLE xx00-xx02: COMBINING DIACRITICAL MARKSxx0012TABLE xx00-xx02: COMBINING DIACRITICAL MARKShexxx00xx01xx02NameCOMBINING DOTTED GRAVE ACCENTCOMBINING DOTTED ACUTE ACCENTCOMBINING DOUBLE BREVE BELOW= GREEK PAPYROLOGICAL HYPHEN

Note:If 03FC COMBINING DOUBLE BREVE BELOW from proposal N2594 (L2/03-142R“Proposal to encode combining double breve below”) is accepted, then the COMBININGDOUBLE BREVE BELOW from this proposal can be unified with it.

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TABLE 2E10-2E1C: SUPPLEMENTAL PUNCTUATION
2E10123456789A-6-⋮Proposal for the Universal Character Set

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TABLE 2E10-2E1C: SUPPLEMENTAL PUNCTUATIONhex

2E102E112E122E132E142E152E162E172E182E192E1A

Name

EDITORIAL CORONISPARAGRAPHOSFORKED PARAGRAPHOSREVERSED FORKED PARAGRAPHOSTRICOLONQUINTUPLE COLON= PENTONKIONHYPODIASTOLEDOTTED OBELOSDOWNWARDS ANCORA
UPWARDS ANCORA
DOTTED RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE= DIPLE PERIESTIGMENE

Note:If 2059 QUINTUPLE COLON from proposal N2610R (“Final proposal for encoding theGlagolitic script in the UCS”) is accepted, then the QUINTUPLE COLON from this proposal
can be unified with it.

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TABLE 03FC-03FE: GREEK AND COPTIC
03FCƆDETABLE 03FC-03FE: GREEK AND COPTIChex03FC03FD03DENameREVERSED GREEK CAPITAL LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL= ANTISIGMADOTTED GREEK CAPITAL LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL= SIGMA PERIESTIGMENONREVERSED DOTTED GREEK CAPITAL LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL= ANTISIGMA PERIESTIGMENON-8-Proposal for the Universal Character Set

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ExamplesCombining Diacritical Marks
Combining Dotted Grave Accent

Combining Double Breve BelowPage, D.L., Poetae melici Graeci (Clarendon Press, Oxford,1962) 271

Turner, E.G. & Parsons, P.J. Greek Manuscripts of the AncientWorld (London, 1987) 70

Supplemental Punctuation
Editorial Coronis

Paragraphos,
Forked Paragraphos,
Downward Ancora

Dotted Obelos,
Paragraphos

Grenfell, B.P. & Hunt, B.P., The
Oxyrhynchus Papyri XV (London, 1921)
56

Austin, C., Comicorum Graecorumfragmenta in papyris reperta (De Gruyter,Berlin, 1973) 158

Austin, C., Comicorum Graecorumfragmenta in papyris reperta (De Gruyter,Berlin, 1973) 29

Tricolon

Quintuple Colon

Hypodiastole
Hypodiastole.
Note thedifferent
shape of thecomma on theline above.

Hiller von Gaertringen, F., Inscriptiones
Graecae I Editio Minor (Berlin, 1924)
151

Köhler, U., “Zur Geschichte desamphilochischen Krieges” in Hermes
XXVI (1891) 43

Uhlig, G., Grammatici Graece, vol. 1.1(Teubner, Leipzig, 1993) 106

Dotted Right-Pointing Angle

Dotted Greek Capital LunateSigma Symbol

Reversed Dotted Greek Capital
Lunate Sigma Symbol

Allen, T.W., Homeri Ilias, vol. 2 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1931) 39-40-9-