The Old Italic range was introduced with version 3.1 of the Unicode Standard and is located in Plane 1 (the Supplementary Multilingual Plane). Windows XP and later versions support supplementary characters by default. In Windows 2000, you need to enable support for supplementary characters. These characters cannot easily be displayed in earlier versions of Windows.
The Old Italic script is intended for use with a group of alphabets that were formerly used in what is now Italy. This script is derived from Greek, and is the ancestor of the present-day Latin script.
The characters that appear in the “Character” columns of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.
You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts Aegean, ALPHABETUM Unicode, Cardo, Code2001, EversonMono, Free Idg Serif, MPH 2B Damase, New Athena Unicode and Quivira.
To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap.
If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U10300.pdf.
Character (decimal) | Decimal | Character (hex) | Hex | Name |
---|---|---|---|---|
𐌀 | 66304 | 𐌀 | 10300 | OLD ITALIC LETTER A |
𐌁 | 66305 | 𐌁 | 10301 | OLD ITALIC LETTER BE |
𐌂 | 66306 | 𐌂 | 10302 | OLD ITALIC LETTER KE |
𐌃 | 66307 | 𐌃 | 10303 | OLD ITALIC LETTER DE |
𐌄 | 66308 | 𐌄 | 10304 | OLD ITALIC LETTER E |
𐌅 | 66309 | 𐌅 | 10305 | OLD ITALIC LETTER VE |
𐌆 | 66310 | 𐌆 | 10306 | OLD ITALIC LETTER ZE |
𐌇 | 66311 | 𐌇 | 10307 | OLD ITALIC LETTER HE |
𐌈 | 66312 | 𐌈 | 10308 | OLD ITALIC LETTER THE |
𐌉 | 66313 | 𐌉 | 10309 | OLD ITALIC LETTER I |
𐌊 | 66314 | 𐌊 | 1030A | OLD ITALIC LETTER KA |
𐌋 | 66315 | 𐌋 | 1030B | OLD ITALIC LETTER EL |
𐌌 | 66316 | 𐌌 | 1030C | OLD ITALIC LETTER EM |
𐌍 | 66317 | 𐌍 | 1030D | OLD ITALIC LETTER EN |
𐌎 | 66318 | 𐌎 | 1030E | OLD ITALIC LETTER ESH |
𐌏 | 66319 | 𐌏 | 1030F | OLD ITALIC LETTER O |
𐌐 | 66320 | 𐌐 | 10310 | OLD ITALIC LETTER PE |
𐌑 | 66321 | 𐌑 | 10311 | OLD ITALIC LETTER SHE |
𐌒 | 66322 | 𐌒 | 10312 | OLD ITALIC LETTER KU |
𐌓 | 66323 | 𐌓 | 10313 | OLD ITALIC LETTER ER |
𐌔 | 66324 | 𐌔 | 10314 | OLD ITALIC LETTER ES |
𐌕 | 66325 | 𐌕 | 10315 | OLD ITALIC LETTER TE |
𐌖 | 66326 | 𐌖 | 10316 | OLD ITALIC LETTER U |
𐌗 | 66327 | 𐌗 | 10317 | OLD ITALIC LETTER EKS |
𐌘 | 66328 | 𐌘 | 10318 | OLD ITALIC LETTER PHE |
𐌙 | 66329 | 𐌙 | 10319 | OLD ITALIC LETTER KHE |
𐌚 | 66330 | 𐌚 | 1031A | OLD ITALIC LETTER EF |
𐌛 | 66331 | 𐌛 | 1031B | OLD ITALIC LETTER ERS |
𐌜 | 66332 | 𐌜 | 1031C | OLD ITALIC LETTER CHE |
𐌝 | 66333 | 𐌝 | 1031D | OLD ITALIC LETTER II |
𐌞 | 66334 | 𐌞 | 1031E | OLD ITALIC LETTER UU |
𐌟 | 66335 | 𐌟 | 1031F | OLD ITALIC LETTER ESS |
𐌠 | 66336 | 𐌠 | 10320 | OLD ITALIC NUMERAL ONE |
𐌡 | 66337 | 𐌡 | 10321 | OLD ITALIC NUMERAL FIVE |
𐌢 | 66338 | 𐌢 | 10322 | OLD ITALIC NUMERAL TEN |
𐌣 | 66339 | 𐌣 | 10323 | OLD ITALIC NUMERAL FIFTY |
Copyright © 2001–2014 Alan Wood
The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 7.0.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2014 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode ftp site (ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in October 2014.
Created 27th October 2001 Last updated 29th October 2014