Cyrillic and Glagolitic in Unicode

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The Slavic alphabets Cyrillic and Glagolitic are divided into five blocks in Unicode , the first two of which contain the characters required for the writing of Slavic and non-Slavic languages ​​(including some historical characters) and the other three blocks of characters for the reproduction of historical Cyrillic or Glagolitic texts.

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

Coded characters

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

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

The letters for Glagolitic are coded in the Unicode block Glagolitic , no distinction is made between the round and the angular letter shapes.

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