L2/11-279

Subject: Action 124 A011: Sample characters for scripts
Date: 2011 July 20
From: Mark Davis

For discussion at the upcoming meeting.

John and I had the following action:

124A011 ; Mark Davis, John Jenkins ; Gather a list of recommended sample characters, one per script, for use in contexts like the last resort font.

At the end of this document is the proposed list that we have; additional characters would need to be added for the Unicode 6.1 scripts.

#Short name ; Sample Character # Long name ; Glyph and Sample Character Name
Zyyy ; 0040 # Common ; ( @ ) COMMERCIAL AT
Zinh ; 00A8 # Inherited ; ( ¨ ) DIAERESIS
Zzzz ; FFFD # Unknown ; ( � ) REPLACEMENT CHARACTER
Arab ; 0628 # Arabic ; ( ‎ب‎ ) ARABIC LETTER BEH
Armn ; 0531 # Armenian ; ( Ա ) ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER AYB
Avst ; 10B00 # Avestan ; ( ‎𐬀‎ ) AVESTAN LETTER A
Bali ; 1B05 # Balinese ; ( ᬅ ) BALINESE LETTER AKARA
Bamu ; A6A0 # Bamum ; ( ꚠ ) BAMUM LETTER A
Batk ; 1BC0 # Batak ; ( ᯀ ) BATAK LETTER A
Beng ; 0995 # Bengali ; ( ক ) BENGALI LETTER KA
Bopo ; 3105 # Bopomofo ; ( ㄅ ) BOPOMOFO LETTER B
Brah ; 11005 # Brahmi ; ( 𑀅 ) BRAHMI LETTER A
Bugi ; 1A00 # Buginese ; ( ᨀ ) BUGINESE LETTER KA
Buhd ; 1743 # Buhid ; ( ᝃ ) BUHID LETTER KA
Cans ; 14C0 # Canadian_Aboriginal ; ( ᓀ ) CANADIAN SYLLABICS NE
Cari ; 102A0 # Carian ; ( 𐊠 ) CARIAN LETTER A
Cham ; AA00 # Cham ; ( ꨀ ) CHAM LETTER A
Cher ; 13C4 # Cherokee ; ( Ꮔ ) CHEROKEE LETTER NU
Copt ; 03E2 # Coptic ; ( Ϣ ) COPTIC CAPITAL LETTER SHEI
Xsux ; 12000 # Cuneiform ; ( 𒀀 ) CUNEIFORM SIGN A
Cprt ; 10800 # Cypriot ; ( ‎𐠀‎ ) CYPRIOT SYLLABLE A
Cyrl ; 042F # Cyrillic ; ( Я ) CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YA
Dsrt ; 10414 # Deseret ; ( 𐐔 ) DESERET CAPITAL LETTER DEE
Deva ; 0905 # Devanagari ; ( अ ) DEVANAGARI LETTER A
Egyp ; 13153 # Egyptian_Hieroglyphs ; ( 𓅓 ) EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH G017
Ethi ; 12A0 # Ethiopic ; ( አ ) ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE GLOTTAL A
Geor ; 10D3 # Georgian ; ( დ ) GEORGIAN LETTER DON
Glag ; 2C00 # Glagolitic ; ( Ⰰ ) GLAGOLITIC CAPITAL LETTER AZU
Goth ; 10330 # Gothic ; ( 𐌰 ) GOTHIC LETTER AHSA
Grek ; 03A9 # Greek ; ( Ω ) GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA
Gujr ; 0A95 # Gujarati ; ( ક ) GUJARATI LETTER KA
Guru ; 0A15 # Gurmukhi ; ( ਕ ) GURMUKHI LETTER KA
Hani ; 5B57 # Han ; ( 字 ) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B57
Hang ; AC00 # Hangul ; ( 가 ) HANGUL SYLLABLE GA
Hano ; 1723 # Hanunoo ; ( ᜣ ) HANUNOO LETTER KA
Hebr ; 05D0 # Hebrew ; ( ‎א‎ ) HEBREW LETTER ALEF
Hira ; 304B # Hiragana ; ( か ) HIRAGANA LETTER KA
Armi ; 10840 # Imperial_Aramaic ; ( ‎𐡀‎ ) IMPERIAL ARAMAIC LETTER ALEPH
Phli ; 10B60 # Inscriptional_Pahlavi ; ( ‎𐭠‎ ) INSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI LETTER ALEPH
Prti ; 10B40 # Inscriptional_Parthian ; ( ‎𐭀‎ ) INSCRIPTIONAL PARTHIAN LETTER ALEPH
Java ; A984 # Javanese ; ( ꦄ ) JAVANESE LETTER A
Kthi ; 11083 # Kaithi ; ( 𑂃 ) KAITHI LETTER A
Knda ; 0C95 # Kannada ; ( ಕ ) KANNADA LETTER KA
Kana ; 30AB # Katakana ; ( カ ) KATAKANA LETTER KA
Kali ; A90A # Kayah_Li ; ( ꤊ ) KAYAH LI LETTER KA
Khar ; 10A00 # Kharoshthi ; ( ‎𐨀‎ ) KHAROSHTHI LETTER A
Khmr ; 1780 # Khmer ; ( ក ) KHMER LETTER KA
Laoo ; 0EA5 # Lao ; ( ລ ) LAO LETTER LO LOOT
Latn ; 004C # Latin ; ( L ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L
Lepc ; 1C00 # Lepcha ; ( ᰀ ) LEPCHA LETTER KA
Limb ; 1900 # Limbu ; ( ᤀ ) LIMBU VOWEL-CARRIER LETTER
Linb ; 10000 # Linear_B ; ( 𐀀 ) LINEAR B SYLLABLE B008 A
Lisu ; A4D0 # Lisu ; ( ꓐ ) LISU LETTER BA
Lyci ; 10280 # Lycian ; ( 𐊀 ) LYCIAN LETTER A
Lydi ; 10920 # Lydian ; ( ‎𐤠‎ ) LYDIAN LETTER A
Mlym ; 0D15 # Malayalam ; ( ക ) MALAYALAM LETTER KA
Mand ; 0840 # Mandaic ; ( ‎ࡀ‎ ) MANDAIC LETTER HALQA
Mtei ; ABC0 # Meetei_Mayek ; ( ꯀ ) MEETEI MAYEK LETTER KOK
Mong ; 1826 # Mongolian ; ( ᠦ ) MONGOLIAN LETTER UE
Mymr ; 1000 # Myanmar ; ( က ) MYANMAR LETTER KA
Talu ; 1980 # New_Tai_Lue ; ( ᦀ ) NEW TAI LUE LETTER HIGH QA
Nkoo ; 07CA # Nko ; ( ‎ߊ‎ ) NKO LETTER A
Ogam ; 168F # Ogham ; ( ᚏ ) OGHAM LETTER RUIS
Olck ; 1C5A # Ol_Chiki ; ( ᱚ ) OL CHIKI LETTER LA
Ital ; 10300 # Old_Italic ; ( 𐌀 ) OLD ITALIC LETTER A
Xpeo ; 103A0 # Old_Persian ; ( 𐎠 ) OLD PERSIAN SIGN A
Sarb ; 10A60 # Old_South_Arabian ; ( ‎𐩠‎ ) OLD SOUTH ARABIAN LETTER HE
Orkh ; 10C00 # Old_Turkic ; ( ‎𐰀‎ ) OLD TURKIC LETTER ORKHON A
Orya ; 0B15 # Oriya ; ( କ ) ORIYA LETTER KA
Osma ; 10480 # Osmanya ; ( 𐒀 ) OSMANYA LETTER ALEF
Phag ; A840 # Phags_Pa ; ( ꡀ ) PHAGS-PA LETTER KA
Phnx ; 10900 # Phoenician ; ( ‎𐤀‎ ) PHOENICIAN LETTER ALF
Rjng ; A930 # Rejang ; ( ꤰ ) REJANG LETTER KA
Runr ; 16A0 # Runic ; ( ᚠ ) RUNIC LETTER FEHU FEOH FE F
Samr ; 0800 # Samaritan ; ( ‎ࠀ‎ ) SAMARITAN LETTER ALAF
Saur ; A882 # Saurashtra ; ( ꢂ ) SAURASHTRA LETTER A
Shaw ; 10450 # Shavian ; ( 𐑐 ) SHAVIAN LETTER PEEP
Sinh ; 0D85 # Sinhala ; ( අ ) SINHALA LETTER AYANNA
Sund ; 1B83 # Sundanese ; ( ᮃ ) SUNDANESE LETTER A
Sylo ; A800 # Syloti_Nagri ; ( ꠀ ) SYLOTI NAGRI LETTER A
Syrc ; 0710 # Syriac ; ( ‎ܐ‎ ) SYRIAC LETTER ALAPH
Tglg ; 1703 # Tagalog ; ( ᜃ ) TAGALOG LETTER KA
Tagb ; 1763 # Tagbanwa ; ( ᝣ ) TAGBANWA LETTER KA
Tale ; 1950 # Tai_Le ; ( ᥐ ) TAI LE LETTER KA
Lana ; 1A20 # Tai_Tham ; ( ᨠ ) TAI THAM LETTER HIGH KA
Tavt ; AA80 # Tai_Viet ; ( ꪀ ) TAI VIET LETTER LOW KO
Taml ; 0B95 # Tamil ; ( க ) TAMIL LETTER KA
Telu ; 0C15 # Telugu ; ( క ) TELUGU LETTER KA
Thaa ; 078C # Thaana ; ( ‎ތ‎ ) THAANA LETTER THAA
Thai ; 0E17 # Thai ; ( ท ) THAI CHARACTER THO THAHAN
Tibt ; 0F40 # Tibetan ; ( ཀ ) TIBETAN LETTER KA
Tfng ; 2D30 # Tifinagh ; ( ⴰ ) TIFINAGH LETTER YA
Ugar ; 10380 # Ugaritic ; ( 𐎀 ) UGARITIC LETTER ALPA
Vaii ; A549 # Vai ; ( ꕉ ) VAI SYLLABLE A
Yiii ; A288 # Yi ; ( ꊈ ) YI SYLLABLE WO