Duployan is a
Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ad ...
containing characters for various
Duployan shorthand
The Duployan shorthand, or Duployan stenography (french: Sténographie Duployé), was created by Father Émile Duployé in 1860 for writing French. Since then, it has been expanded and adapted for writing English, German, Spanish, Romanian, Lat ...
s, including French Duployéan,
Chinook Writing, Romanian shorthand, and the English Sloan-Duployan, Pernin, and Perrault shorthands.
It is the first block of shorthand characters included in the
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard, ...
Standard.
Block
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Duployan block:
See also
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Shorthand Format Controls
Shorthand Format Controls is a Unicode block containing four formatting characters for representing shorthands in Unicode.
Block
Being invisible controls, they have no visible glyph but can have a representation.
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Unicode blocks