A. Administrative
 

1. Title	Adjustments to the Armenian Code Table
2. Requester’s name	Armenian Engineers and Scientists’ Association, Computer Standardization Committee
3. Requester type (Member body/Liaison/Individual contribution)	Member Body
4. Submission date	June 1, 1996
5. Requester’s reference (if applicable)	See attached DocumentNo2, DocumentNo3
6. Choose one of the following:
a. This is a complete proposal	YES
b. More information will be provided later	NO

B. Technical - General
 

1. Choose one of the following:
a. This proposal is for a new script (set of characters)	NO
Proposed name of script	Not Applicable
b. The proposal is for addition of character(s) to an existing block	NO, it is for adjusting existent characters and symbols within the Armenian table.
Name of the existing block	ARMENIAN
2. Number of characters in proposal	5
3. Proposed category (see  section II, Character Categories)	A, Contemporary
4. Proposed Level of implementation (see clause 15, ISO/IEC 10646-1)	Level 3
Is a rationale provided for the choice ?	This is based on the usage of these characters
If YES, reference	See attached list of references.
5. Is a repertoire including character names provided?	YES
a. If YES, are the names in accordance with the character naming guidelines in Annex K of ISO/IEC 10646-1 ?	YES
b. Are the character shapes attached in a reviewable form ?	YES
6. Who will provide the appropriate computerized font (ordered preference: TrueType, PostScript or 96x96 bit-mapped format) for publishing the standard ?	Already provided. Floppy disk is enclosed
If available now, identify source(s) for the font (including address, e-mail, ftp-site, etc) and indicate the tools used:
Font sources:	American University of Armenia, 40 Marshall Bagramian Street, Yerevan ARMENIA  Der Ohanian fonts, 701 DonMills Rd, Suite 1511 DonMills, Ontario M3C1R7, CANADA  Agosoft Inc.  1678 Shattuck #134 Berkeley CA 94709  USA
Tool used:	Fontographer
7. References:
a. Are references (to other character sets, dictionaries, descriptive texts, etc.) provided ?	YES, see attached
b. Are published examples (such as samples from newspapers, magazines, or other sources) of use of proposed characters attached ?	See attached list of references and cross-references outlined for each symbol individually.

C. Technical - Justification
 

1. Has contact been made to members of the user community (for example: National Body, user groups of the script or characters, other experts, etc.) ?	YES
If YES, with whom ?	National Academy of Sciences of Armenia Language Insitute of Armenia  American University of Armenia  Informatics Institute of Armenia  Manufacturers such as Papazian, DerOhanian, Bytec, Agosoft, Polybase, etc  AESA survey of speakers of the Armenian Language
If YES, available relevant documents ?	See attached
2. Information on the user community for the proposed characters (for example: size, demographics, information technology use, or publishing use) is included ?
Demographics:	Approximately 3 million speakers/writers of Armenian within Armenia  Approximately 5 million speakers/writers of Armenian within North and South America, Middle East, Europe, Australia, and other parts of the world
Information technology use:	Word processing, Desktop Publishing, Library Automation, Optical Characeter Recognition Personal computers, Internet, Unix Workstations,
Reference	JAAIP, AUA communications, Hamazkayin news and information, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
3. The context of use for the proposed characters (type of use: common or rare)	Common
Reference	See attached list of references
4. Are the proposed characters in current use by the user community?	YES
If YES, where?	Reference See attached.Printed literature in Armenia (especially Yerevan), Venice, Wien, Beirut, Marseille, Los Angeles, Boston, Moscow, Bucharest, Buenos Aires, Cairo, and everywhere else Armenians are scattered within their Diaspora
5. After giving due consideration to the principles in N 1252 must the proposed characters be entirely in the BMP?	YES
If YES, is a rationale provided ?	4c. Symbols specific to the Armenian Language
If YES, reference	Dictionary of Armenology, by Hrant Petrosian, Sponsor of Publication: Chair of Armenian Language studies of the State University of Yerevan, Published by "Hayastan" Publishing house, 1987 pp. 143-146, 588Armenian Grammar (West Dialect) by Fr. S.L.Kogian, Mechitharist, Vienna, Austria, Mechitharist Press, 1949, pp. 21-23Armenian Language, Textbook of Normative Syntax, by S. G. Abrahamian, Sponsored by Education Department of Armenian SSR, Yerevan, "Luis", 1984, pp..312-313, 318-320
6. Should the proposed characters be kept together in a contiguous range (rather than being scattered) ?	NO, as long as they are placed within the Armenian table space.See the attached proposed code point assignments
7. Can any of the proposed characters be considered a presentation form of an existing character sequence ?	NO
If YES, is a rationale for its inclusion provided?	Not applicable
If YES, reference	Not applicable
8. Can any of the proposed character(s) be considered to be similar (in appearance or function) to an existing character?	NO. Some symbols are remotely similar to other symbols (of other tables). Cross reference is provided.
If YES, is a rationale for its inclusion provided?	Not applicable
If YES, reference	Not applicable
9. Does the proposal include use of combining characters and/or use of composite sequences (see clause 4.11 and 4.13 in ISO/IEC 10646-1) ?	Added characters are not combining
If YES, is a rationale for such use provided?	Not applicable
If YES, reference	Not applicable
Is a list of composite sequences and their corresponding glyph images (graphic symbols) provided ?	Not applicable.
If YES, reference	Not applicable

D. SC 2 / WG 2 Administrative (To be completed by SC 2 / WG 2)
 

1. Relevant SC 2 / WG 2 document numbers: 2. Status (list of meeting number and corresponding action or disposition)  3. Additional contact to user communities, liaison organization, etc.  4. Assigned category and assigned priority / time frame

Addition   1

Decimal: 138
Hex: 058A
Name: ARMENIAN MIJAKET
Description: Mijaket is a separation mark inside a sentence, literally translated as ‘middle dot’. It is used like the colon and/or the semicolon in English. The symbol is larger than either dot of ARMENIAN  VERJAKET, FULL STOP, and it has left alignment

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Addition   2 and 3

Decimal: 139
Hex: 058B
Name: ARMENIAN DZAKH  CHAKERT

Decimal: 140
Hex: 058C
Name: ARMENIAN AJ  CHAKERT

Description: Chakert, dzakh and aj, (quotation marks) in Armenian are different from any other conditional sign used in any language as they origin from the upper part of the letter ã (CHA) of the Armenian alphabet. The name of the quotation mark(s) derives from that name as well, cha-kert  ‘built of cha’. This name is used in plural, as the marks consist of two parts, right and left ‘chakert’

 Quotation marks are explanatory punctuation marks used:

• to quote direct speech
• to mark titles, names of books, magazines, newspapers, enterprises, organizations, vessels,  vehicles, etc.
• to limit conditional words with reverse or teasing meanings.
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Addition 4

Decimal: 141
Hex: 058D
Name: ARMENIAN YENTAMNA
Description: This is one of two hyphenation signs. Yentamna is used only inside polysyllable words for syllabification at the end of the line. It is slightly rounded and thicker at the left end. It can not be followed or preceded by space marks. It remains with the first syllable(s) at the end of the line, remaining syllables pass on to the next line.

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Decimal: 142
Hex: 058E
Name: ARMENIAN MIUTIAN GTSIK
Description: This is an explanatory mark. Its length equals that of the lower case letter ë (SA) and it is situated on the half height of this letter. That is, it is shorter and higher than ANJATMAN GITS. Also, it can not be followed or preceded by space marks. If MIUTIAN GTSIK ends the line it is repeated on the next line before the second component of the compound.

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Addition 6

Decimal: 143
Hex: 058F
Name: ARMENIAN ANJATMAN GITS
Description: This is an explanatory mark, it is a dash longer and lower than the dash used for English. Its length is more than the length of the lower case letter ³ (AYB). Anjatman gits is always followed with a space mark. It is also preceded with a space mark. Functions of anjatman gits do not coincide fully with the dash of English.

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Addition 7

Decimal: 048
Hex: 0530
Name: ARMENIAN SIUN
Description: Similar to ARMENIAN SHESHT (EMPHASIS MARK) but descends from upper right of the character cell towards the center.

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Addition   8

Decimal: 096
Hex: 0560
Name: ARMENIAN YERKVOREAK
Description: Two SIUN symbols narrowly separated.  Similar to the representation of the GUILLEMET as two SINGLE GUILLEMETS.

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