Medieval Unicode Font Initiative


A proposal for subranges within the Private Use Area of Unicode:
Supplements to the Latin alphabet for Medieval texts

 

Subrange 6. Punctuation marks: E500 - E5FF

This range includes those question marks that are not included in the official Unicode ranges. The common marks, such as full stop, comma, colon, semicolon, question mark, hyphen and solidus, are all found in Unicode 3.2 Basic Latin.

The question mark has several quite distinctive shapes in Medieval script. One form resembles an eternity symbol (lying 8) with dot below, another form a tilde with a dot below. Since these forms may be interpreted as variants (or rather precursors) of the modern question marks, no supplementary question mark has so far been proposed here.

Glyph

Entity

Unicode

Descriptive name

∣

E500

PUNCTUATION MARK MIDDLE DOT

&seminv;

0000

PUNCTUATION MARK INVERTED SEMICOLON (PUNCTUS ELEVATUS)

&pause;

0000

PUNCTUATION MARK PAUSE (DOT BELOW BREVE)

&tridots;

0000

PUNCTUATION MARK TRIANGULAR DOTS


Version 1.0, 15 June 2002 OEH