Shorthand Format Controls Explained

Blockname:	Shorthand Format Controls
Rangestart:	1BCA0
Rangeend:	1BCAF
Script1:	Common
Alphabets:	Shorthands
7 0:	4
Note:	^[1] ^[2]

Shorthand Format Controls is a Unicode block containing four formatting characters for representing shorthands in Unicode.^[3]

Block

Being invisible controls, they have no visible glyph but can have a representation.

• ^[4]
• ^[5]
• ^[6]

Romanian affix -tsion-

Sloan contracted ending oo/o + ZWSP

• ^[7]

Sloan contracted ending uh/au/aui + ZWSP

History

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

		Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
7.0	U+1BCA0..1BCA3	4
				N3895
				N3908
				N3922
				N3931
				N3940
				N4088
				N4103

See also

• Duployan shorthand

Notes and References

1. Web site: Unicode character database. The Unicode Standard. 2023-07-26.
2. Web site: Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard. The Unicode Standard. 2023-07-26.
3. Web site: Anderson. Van. Proposal to include Duployan Shorthands and Chinook script and Shorthand Format Controls in UCS. 2016-07-10.
4. Web site: Unicode U+1BCA0 SHORTHAND FORMAT LETTER OVERLAP. Codepoints.net .
5. Web site: Unicode U+1BCA1 SHORTHAND FORMAT LETTER OVERLAP. Codepoints.net .
6. Web site: Unicode U+1BCA2 SHORTHAND FORMAT LETTER OVERLAP. Codepoints.net .
7. Web site: Unicode U+1BCA3 SHORTHAND FORMAT LETTER OVERLAP. Codepoints.net .