Quivira 4.1

Quivira 4.1 contains 11,053 characters.

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Version History

This page lists the Unicode blocks that were newly supported in each version of Quivira.

With each version of Quivira, new characters were added. The following list shows which Unicode blocks were added or completed in each version.

With version 4.1, Quivira now complies with Unicode 7.0. In Unicode 7.0 new character definitions have been added to existing blocks. Thus in Quivira 4.1 these blocks were completed again, although they had already been marked as completed in previous versions.

Added or upgraded blocks

• Greek and Coptic (completed, 1 new character)
• Cyrillic Supplement (completed, 8 new characters)
• Armenian (completed, 2 new characters)
• Runic (completed, 8 new characters)
• Currency Symbols (completed, 3 new characters)
• Miscellaneous Technical (completed, 7 new characters)
• Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows (completed, 115 new characters)
• Supplemental Punctuation (completed, 17 new characters)
• Cyrillic Extended-B (completed, 6 new characters)
• Latin Extended-D (completed, 18 new characters)
• Latin Extended-E (complete, 50 characters)
• Private Use Area: Control Pictures Extended (6 characters)
• Ancient Greek Numbers (completed, 2 new characters)
• Ancient Symbols (completed, 1 new character)
• Old Italic (completed, 1 new character)
• Ugaritic (complete, 31 characters)
• Playing Cards (completed, 23 new characters)
• Enclosed Alphanumerics Supplement (completed, 2 new characters)
• Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (32 new characters)
• Emoticons (completed, 2 new characters)
• Geometric Shapes Extended (64 characters)

Summe

11.053 characters in total, 391 new characters since version 4.0.

With version 4.0, Quivira now complies with Unicode 6.2. In Unicode 6.2 new character definitions have been added to existing blocks. Thus in Quivira 4.0 these blocks were completed again, although they had already been marked as completed in previous versions.

Added or upgraded blocks

• Currency Symbols (completed, 1 new character)
• CJK Symbols and Punctuation (8 new characters)
• Enclosed CJK Letters and Months (1 new character)
• Private Use Area: Alphanumeric Supplement (38 new characters)
• Private Use Area: Partially Enclosed Alphanumerics-A (5 new characters)
• Private Use Area: Control Pictures Supplement (5 new characters)

Other changes

• Changed format from TrueType to OpenType
• OpenType script for Combining Diacritical Marks on Latin, Greek and Cyrillic letters
• OpenType script for Tagalog, Hanunoo, Buhid and Tagbanwa

Summary

10,662 characters in total, 319 new characters since version 3.8.

With version 3.8, Quivira now complies with Unicode 6.1. In Unicode 6.1 new character definitions have been added to existing blocks. Thus in Quivira 3.8 these blocks were completed again, although they had already been marked as completed in previous versions.

Added or upgraded blocks

• Armenian (completed, 1 new character)
• Georgian (completed, 5 new characters)
• Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A (completed, 2 new characters)
• Coptic (completed, 2 new characters)
• Georgian Supplement (completed, 2 new characters)
• Tifinagh (completed, 2 new characters)
• Vai (complete, 300 characters)
• Cyrillic Extended-B (completed, 9 new characters)
• Latin Extended-D (completed, 5 new characters)
• Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement (completed, 2 new characters)
• Emoticons (completed, 13 new characters)

Summary

10,343 characters in total, 343 new characters since version 3.7.

Added or upgraded blocks

• Samaritan (complete, 61 characters)
• Miscellaneous Symbols (63 new characters)
• Dingbats (13 new characters)
• Private Use Area: Solresol (15 characters)
• Private Use Area: Genji-mon Symbols (54 characters)
• Imperial Aramaic (complete, 31 characters)
• Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (48 new characters)
• Emoticons (completed, 11 new characters)
• Alchemical Symbols (complete, 116 characters)

Summary

10,000 characters in total, 542 new characters since version 3.6.

Added or upgraded blocks

• Private Use Area: Unifon (40 characters)
• Private Use Area: Geomantic Figures (16 characters)
• Aegean Numbers (complete, 57 characters)
• Phoenician (complete, 29 characters)
• Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols (completed, 400 new characters)

Summary

9,588 characters in total, 412 new characters since version 3.5.

Added or upgraded blocks

• Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (complete, 640 characters)
• Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended (complete, 70 characters)
• Currency Symbols (completed, 1 new character: U+20B9 INDIAN RUPEE SIGN)
• Private Use Area: Playing Card Symbols (6 new characters)
• Mahjong Tiles (complete, 44 characters)
• Playing Cards (complete, 59 characters)

Summary

9,046 characters in total, 820 new characters since version 3.4.

With version 3.4, Quivira now complies with Unicode 6.0. In Unicode 6.0 new character definitions have been added to existing blocks. Thus in Quivira 3.4 these blocks were completed again, although they had already been marked as completed in previous versions.

Added or upgraded blocks

• Cyrillic Supplement (completed, 2 new characters)
• Superscripts and Subscripts (completed, 8 new characters)
• Miscellaneous Technical (completed, 11 new characters)
• Miscellaneous Symbols (10 new characters)
• Dingbats (30 new characters)
• Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A (completed, 2 new characters)
• Tifinagh (completed, 1 new character)
• Cyrillic Extended-B (completed, 2 new characters)
• Latin Extended-D (completed, 15 new characters)
• Private Use Area: Control Pictures Supplement (1 new character)
• Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement (completed, 106 new characters)
• Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (109 characters)
• Emoticons (52 characters)

Summary

8,226 characters in total, 344 new characters since version 3.3.

Added or upgraded blocks

• Glagolitic (complete, 94 characters)
• Supplemental Punctuation (complete, 50 characters)
• Enclosed CJK Letters and Months (8 new characters)
• Private Use Area: Various Symbols (8 new characters)
• Old South Arabian (complete, 32 characters)
• Old Turkic (complete, 73 characters)
• Counting Rod Numerals (complete, 18 characters)
• Enclosed Alphanumerics Supplement (complete, 63 characters)

Summary

7,882 characters in total, 346 new characters since version 3.2.

Added or upgraded blocks

• Ideographic Description Characters (complete, 12 characters)
• Lisu (complete, 48 characters)
• Private Use Area: Chess Symbols Extended-A (Miscellaneous uncommon chess pieces, 20 characters)
• Private Use Area: Chess Symbols Extended-B (turned and combined chess pieces, 34 characters)
• Ancient Greek Numbers (complete, 75 characters)
• Ancient Symbols (complete, 12 characters)
• Musical Symbols (84 characters)
• Ancient Greek Musical Notation (complete, 70 characters)

Summary

7,536 characters in total, 355 new characters since version 3.1.

With version 3.1, Quivira now complies with Unicode 5.2. In Unicode 5.2 new character definitions have been added to existing blocks. Thus in Quivira 3.1 these blocks were completed again, although they had already been marked as completed in previous versions.

Added or upgraded blocks

• Cyrillic Supplement (completed, 2 new characters)
• Currency Symbols (completed, 3 new characters)
• Number Forms (completed, 4 new characters)
• Miscellaneous Technical (completed, 1 new character)
• Miscellaneous Symbols (40 new characters, mostly gender and weather symbols)
• Supplemental Arrows-B (complete, 128 characters)
• Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows (completed, 5 new characters)
• Latin Extended-C (completed, 3 new characters)
• Coptic (completed, 7 new characters)
• Cyrillic Extended-A (complete, 32 characters)
• Cyrillic Extended-B (complete, 78 characters)
• Lycian (complete, 29 characters)
• Carian (complete, 49 characters)
• Lydian (complete, 27 characters)

Summary

7,181 characters in total, 408 new characters since version 3.0.

With version 3.0, Quivira now complies with Unicode 5.1. In Unicode 5.1 new character definitions have been added to existing blocks. Thus in Quivira 3.0 these blocks were completed again, although they had already been marked as completed in previous versions.

Added or upgraded blocks

• Greek and Coptic (completed, 7 new characters)
• Cyrillic (completed, 1 new character)
• Cyrillic Supplement (completed, 16 new characters)
• Latin Extended Additional (completed, 10 new characters)
• Letterlike Symbols (completed, 1 new character)
• Number Forms (completed, 4 new characters)
• Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A (completed, 5 new characters)
• Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows (completed, 51 new characters)
• Latin Extended-C (completed, 12 new characters)
• Modifier Tone Letters (completed, 5 new characters)
• Latin Extended-D (complete, 114 characters)
• Private Use Area: Laundry Symbols (64 characters)
• Private Use Area: Control Pictures Supplement (6 new characters)
• Domino Tiles (complete, 100 characters)

Summary

6,773 characters in total, 396 new characters since version 2.6.

Added or upgraded blocks

• Cherokee (complete, 85 characters)
• Supplemental Arrows-A (complete, 16 characters)
• Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B (complete, 128 characters)
• Yijing Hexagram Symbols (complete, 64 characters)
• Tai Xuan Jing Symbols (complete, 87 characters)

Summary

6,379 characters in total, 380 new characters since version 2.5.

Added or upgraded blocks

• Letterlike Symbols (completed, 13 new characters)
• Miscellaneous Symbols (23 new characters)
• Dingbats (46 new characters)
• Tifinagh (complete, 55 characters)
• Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols (217 new characters)

Summary

6,000 characters in total, 352 new characters since version 2.4.

Added or upgraded blocks

• Tagalog (complete, 20 characters)
• Hanunoo (complete, 23 characters)
• Buhid (complete, 20 characters)
• Tagbanwa (complete, 18 characters)
• Supplemental Mathematical Operators (complete, 256 characters)
• Private Use Area: Various Symbols (26 characters)
• Private Use Area: Combining Subscripts (15 characters)

Summary

5,648 characters in total, 378 new characters since version 2.3.

Added or upgraded blocks

• Combining Diacritical Marks (complete, 111 characters)
• Hebrew (completed, 36 new characters)
• Georgian (complete, 83 characters)
• Geometric Shapes (completed, 81 characters)
• Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows (complete, 31 characters)
• Georgian Supplement (complete, 38 characters)

Summary

5,270 characters in total, 380 new characters since version 2.2.

Added or upgraded blocks

• Ogham (complete, 29 characters)
• Runic (complete, 81 characters)
• Arrows (completed, 93 new characters)
• Miscellaneous Symbols (30 new characters)
• Old Italic (complete, 35 characters)
• Gothic (complete, 27 characters)

Summary

4,890 characters in total, 297 new characters since version 2.1.

Added or upgraded blocks

• Armenian (complete, 86 characters)
• Greek Extended (complete, 233 characters)
• Modifier Tone Letters (complete, 27 characters)
• Alphabetic Presentation Forms (completed, 5 new characters)

Summary

4,593 characters in total, 351 new characters since version 2.0.

Version 2.0 was the first one compliant to Unicode 5.0. In Unicode 5.0 new character definitions had been added to existing blocks. Thus in Quivira 2.0 these blocks were completed again, although they had already been marked as completed in previous versions.

Added or upgraded blocks

• Latin Extended-B (completed, 14 new characters)
• Greek and Coptic (completed, 3 new characters)
• Cyrillic (completed, 7 new characters)
• Cyrillic Supplement (completed, 4 new characters)
• Letterlike Symbols (24 new characters)
• Number Forms (completed, 1 new character)
• Miscellaneous Technical (completed, 228 new characters)
• Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A (completed, 4 new characters)
• Latin Extended-C (complete, 17 characters)
• Private Use Area: Partially Enclosed Alphanumerics (4 new characters)
• Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols (183 new characters)

Summary

4,242 characters in total, 489 new characters since version 1.8.

Added or upgraded blocks

• Greek and Coptic (completed, 51 new characters)
• Hebrew (51 characters)
• Optical Character Recognition (complete, 11 characters)
• Box Drawing (completed, 88 new characters)
• Block Elements (completed, 24 new chracters)
• Coptic (complete, 114 characters)
• Alphabetic Presentation Forms (46 new characters)

Summary

3,753 characters in total, 385 new characters since version 1.7.

Added or upgraded blocks

• Phonetic Extensions (complete, 128 characters)
• Phonetic Extensions Supplement (complete, 64 characters)
• Superscripts and Subscripts (completed, 5 new characters)
• Dingbats (61 new characters)
• Private Use Area: Additional Latin Supplement (6 characters)
• Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols (74 new characters)

Summary

3,368 characters in total, 338 new characters since version 1.6.

Added or upgraded blocks

• Thai (complete, 87 characters)
• Latin Extended Additional (completed, 236 new characters)
• Miscellaneous Symbols (33 new characters)
• Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A (complete, 35 characters)
• Private Use Area: Chess Symbols Supplement (64 characters)

Summary

3,030 characters in total, 457 new characters since version 1.5.

Added or upgraded blocks

• Spacing Modifier Letters (completed, 71 new characters)
• Cyrillic (completed, 154 new characters)
• Cyrillic Supplement (complete, 16 characters)
• General Punctuation (completed, 62 new characters)
• Letterlike Symbols (25 new characters)
• Private Use Area: Control Pictures Supplement (1 new character)
• Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols (122 characters)

Summary

2,573 characters in total, 451 new characters since version 1.4.

Added or upgraded blocks

• Latin Extended-B (completed, 187 new characters)
• Letterlike Symbols (11 new characters)
• Arrows (12 new characters)
• Mathematical Operators (completed, 239 new characters)

Summary

2,122 characters in total, 449 new characters since version 1.3.

Added or upgraded blocks

• Currency Symbols (completed, 18 new characters)
• Control Pictures (complete, 39 characters)
• Enclosed Alphanumerics (complete, 160 characters)
• Dingbats (10 characters)
• Enclosed CJK Letters and Months (30 characters)
• Private Use Area: Partially Enclosed Alphanumerics (87 characters)
• Private Use Area: Control Pictures Supplement (115 characters)
• Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (110 characters)

Summary

1,673 characters in total, 569 new characters since version 1.2.

Added or upgraded blocks

• IPA Extensions (complete, 96 characters)
• Number Forms (completed, 45 new characters)
• Miscellaneous Symbols (10 new characters)
• Private Use Area: Playing Card Symbols (10 characters)

Summary

1,104 characters in total, 161 new characters since version 1.1.

Added or upgraded blocks

• Superscripts and Subscripts (28 new characters)
• Braille Patterns (complete, 256 characters)
• Alphabetic Presentation Forms (5 new characters)
• Specials (complete, 2 characters)

Summary

943 characters in total, 291 new characters since version 1.0.

Quivira 1.0 was the first version, compliant to Unicode 4.1. The aim was to start with the most common characters of a variety of blocks.

Supported blocks

• Basic Latin (complete, 95 characters)
• C1-Controls and Latin-1 Supplement (complete, 96 characters)
• Latin Extended-A (complete, 128 characters)
• Latin Extended-B (7 characters)
• Spacing Modifier Letters (9 characters)
• Greek and Coptic (73 characters)
• Cyrillic (94 characters)
• Latin Extended Additional (8 characters)
• General Punctuation (23 characters)
• Superscripts and Subscripts (1 character)
• Currency Symbols (4 characters)
• Letterlike Symbols (6 characters)
• Number Forms (4 characters)
• Arrows (7 characters)
• Mathematical Operators (17 characters)
• Miscellaneous Technical (4 characters)
• Box Drawing (40 characters)
• Block Elements (8 characters)
• Geometric Shapes (15 characters)
• Miscellaneous Symbols (11 characters)
• Alphabetic Presentation Forms (2 characters)

Summary

652 characters in total.