Vertical Forms
# Vertical Forms

Vertical Forms is a Unicode block containing vertical punctuation for compatibility characters with the Chinese Standard GB 18030.

In the Unicode specification, U+FE18 ︘ PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL RIGHT WHITE LENTICULAR BRAKCET has a typo in its name; "BRACKET" is spelt as "BRAKCET".

Vertical Forms Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :

| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| U+FE1x | ︐ | ︑ | ︒ | ︓ | ︔ | ︕ | ︖ | ︗ | ︘ | ︙ | | | | | | |
| Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 15.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points |||||||||||||||||

## History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Vertical Forms block:

| Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 4.1 | U+FE10..FE19 | 10 | L2/03-411 | | Goldsmith, Deborah; Muller, Eric (2003-10-31), Unencoded chars in GB 18030 & HK-SCS |
| 4.1 | U+FE10..FE19 | 10 | L2/04-161R | N2807 | Suignard, Michel; Muller, Eric; Jenkins, John (2004-06-17), HKSCS and GB 18030 PUA characters, background document |
| 4.1 | U+FE10..FE19 | 10 | L2/04-263 | N2808 | Suignard, Michel (2004-06-17), HKSCS and GB 18030 PUA characters, request for additional characters and related information |
| 4.1 | U+FE10..FE19 | 10 | L2/05-137 | | Freytag, Asmus (2005-05-10), Handling "defective" names |
| 4.1 | U+FE10..FE19 | 10 | L2/05-108R | | Moore, Lisa (2005-08-26), "Consensus 103-C7", UTC #103 Minutes, Create a "Normative Name Alias" property and file in the UCD. Populate the property with names from the sections "Typos" and "Bad or misleading names" from document L2/05-137. |
| ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ||||||
