Gothic 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 writing the East Germanic
Gothic language
Gothic is an extinct
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although ...
.
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Gothic block:
References
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Unicode blocks
Gothic writing