Cyrillic script in Unicode

The Slavic Cyrillic alphabets Glagolitic and are divided into Unicode five blocks, of which the first two needed for the spelling of Slavic Languages ​​and nichtslawischer characters ( which also includes quite a few historical characters ), and the other three blocks for the reproduction of historical Cyrillic characters or Glagolitic texts.

For a comparison between Unicode and the most common 8 -bit encodings see Cyrillic alphabet # character encoding.

Coded character

The main block of the Cyrillic is the Cyrillic Unicode block, and can be divided into several parts: The first part follows the ISO 8859-5 encoding and thus contains the characters necessary for writing Slavic languages. The following are letters that are used in Turkic languages ​​, then for Abkhazian.

The other blocks contain very rare or historical characters: The Unicode block Cyrillic, complement encodes the sign of Komi from ISO 10754 and Kurdish letters, the two blocks Cyrillic Extended- A and Cyrillic Extended- B mainly letters that used in the old Church Slavonic were.

The letters for Glagolitic are encoded in Unicode block Glagolitic, while no distinction between the round and the square letter forms is made.

Swell

• Julie D. Allen et al.: The Unicode Standard. Version 6.2 - Core Specification. The Unicode Consortium, Mountain View, CA, in 2012. ISBN 978-1-936213-07-8. Chapter 7.4: Cyrillic, Chapter 7.5: Glagolitic. (on-line PDF)

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