Cyrillic (Unicode block) explained

Blockname:Cyrillic
Rangestart:0400
Rangeend:04FF
Alphabets:Russian
Ukrainian
Belarusian
Bulgarian
Serbian
Macedonian
Abkhaz
1 0 0:192
1 0 1:-4
1 1:38
3 0:12
3 2:8
4 1:2
5 0:7
5 1:1
Sources:ISO 8859-5
Note:Four characters (two upper and lower case letter pairs) were removed from the Cyrillic block in version 1.0.1 during the process of unifying with ISO 10646.[1] [2] [3]

Cyrillic is a Unicode block containing the characters used to write the most widely used languages with a Cyrillic orthography. The core of the block is based on the ISO 8859-5 standard, with additions for minority languages and historic orthographies.

Block

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Cyrillic block:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum. The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. 2016-07-09.
  2. Web site: Unicode character database. The Unicode Standard. 2023-07-26.
  3. Web site: Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard. The Unicode Standard. 2023-07-26.

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