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Glyph for U+10404
Source: Noto Sans Deseret

U+10404 Deseret Capital Letter Long O

U+10404 was added to Unicode in version 3.1 (2001). It belongs to the block U+10400 to U+1044F Deseret in the U+10000 to U+1FFFF Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Uppercase Letter and is mainly used in the Deseret script. It is related to its lowercase variant Glyph for U+1042C Deseret Small Letter Long O.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+10404 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Upper for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The Deseret alphabet ( ; Deseret: ๐”๐ฏ๐‘…๐จ๐‘‰๐ฏ๐ป or ๐”๐ฏ๐‘†๐ฒ๐‘‰๐ฏ๐ป) is a phonemic English-language spelling reform developed between 1847 and 1854 by the board of regents of the University of Deseret under the leadership of Brigham Young, the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). George D. Watt is reported to have been the most actively involved in the development of the script's novel characters,:โ€Š159โ€Š which were used to replace those of Isaac Pitman's English phonotypic alphabet. He was also the "New Alphabet's" first serious user.:โ€Š12โ€Š

The Deseret alphabet was an outgrowth of the idealism and utopianism of Young and the early LDS Church. Young and the Mormon pioneers believed "all aspects of life" were in need of reform for the imminent millennium, and the Deseret alphabet was just one of many ways in which they sought to bring about a complete "transformation in society,":โ€Š142โ€Š in anticipation of the Second Coming of Jesus. Young wrote of the reform that "it would represent every sound used in the construction of any known language; and, in fact, a step and partial return to a pure language which has been promised unto us in the latter days," which meant the pure Adamic language spoken before the Tower of Babel.

In public statements, Young claimed the alphabet would replace the traditional Latin alphabet with an alternative, more phonetically accurate alphabet for the English language. This would offer immigrants an opportunity to learn to read and write English, the orthography of which, he said, is often less phonetically consistent than those of many other languages.:โ€Š65โ€“66โ€Š Similar neographies have been attempted, the most well-known of which for English is the Shavian alphabet. Young also proposed teaching the alphabet in the school system, stating "It will be the means of introducing uniformity in our orthography, and the years that are now required to learn to read and spell can be devoted to other studies."

Between 1854 and 1869, the Alphabet was used in scriptural newspaper passages, selected church records, a few diaries, and some correspondence. Occasional street signs and posters used the new letters. In 1860 a $5 gold coin was embossed ๐๐ฌ๐‘Š๐จ๐‘Œ๐ฎ๐‘… ๐ป๐ญ ๐‘„ ๐ข๐ซ๐‘‰๐ผ (Holiness to the Lord). In 1868-9, after much difficulty creating suitable fonts, four books were printed: two school primers, the full Book of Mormon, and a first portion of it, intended as a third school reader.

Despite repeated and costly promotion by the early LDS Church, the alphabet never enjoyed widespread use, and it has been regarded by historians as a failure. However, in recent years, aided by digital typography, the Deseret Alphabet has been revived as a cultural heirloom.

Representations

System Representation
Nยบ 66564
UTF-8 F0 90 90 84
UTF-16 D8 01 DC 04
UTF-32 00 01 04 04
URL-Quoted %F0%90%90%84
HTML hex reference 𐐄
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake รฐยยโ€ž

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Property Value
Age 3.1 (2001)
Unicode Name DESERET CAPITAL LETTER LONG O
Unicode 1 Name โ€”
Block Deseret
General Category Uppercase Letter
Script Deseret
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+10404 Deseret Capital Letter Long O
Lowercase โœ˜
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+1042C Deseret Small Letter Long O
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+1042C Deseret Small Letter Long O
Uppercase โœ”
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+10404 Deseret Capital Letter Long O
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+10404 Deseret Capital Letter Long O
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+10404 Deseret Capital Letter Long O
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+10404 Deseret Capital Letter Long O
Case Folding Glyph for U+1042C Deseret Small Letter Long O
ASCII Hex Digit โœ˜
Alphabetic โœ”
Bidi Control โœ˜
Bidi Mirrored โœ˜
Composition Exclusion โœ˜
Case Ignorable โœ˜
Changes When Casefolded โœ”
Changes When Casemapped โœ”
Changes When NFKC Casefolded โœ”
Changes When Lowercased โœ”
Changes When Titlecased โœ˜
Changes When Uppercased โœ˜
Cased โœ”
Full Composition Exclusion โœ˜
Default Ignorable Code Point โœ˜
Dash โœ˜
Deprecated โœ˜
Diacritic โœ˜
Emoji Modifier Base โœ˜
Emoji Component โœ˜
Emoji Modifier โœ˜
Emoji Presentation โœ˜
Emoji โœ˜
Extender โœ˜
Extended Pictographic โœ˜
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+10404 Deseret Capital Letter Long O
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base โœ”
Grapheme Extend โœ˜
Grapheme Link โœ˜
Hex Digit โœ˜
Hyphen โœ˜
ID Continue โœ”
ID Start โœ”
IDS Binary Operator โœ˜
IDS Trinary Operator and โœ˜
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic โœ˜
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category โ€”
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name โ€”
Join Control โœ˜
Logical Order Exception โœ˜
Math โœ˜
Noncharacter Code Point โœ˜
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+1042C Deseret Small Letter Long O
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+1042C Deseret Small Letter Long O
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic โœ˜
Other Default Ignorable Code Point โœ˜
Other Grapheme Extend โœ˜
Other ID Continue โœ˜
Other ID Start โœ˜
Other Lowercase โœ˜
Other Math โœ˜
Other Uppercase โœ˜
Prepended Concatenation Mark โœ˜
Pattern Syntax โœ˜
Pattern White Space โœ˜
Quotation Mark โœ˜
Regional Indicator โœ˜
Radical โœ˜
Sentence Break Upper
Soft Dotted โœ˜
Sentence Terminal โœ˜
Terminal Punctuation โœ˜
Unified Ideograph โœ˜
Variation Selector โœ˜
Word Break Alphabetic Letter
White Space โœ˜
XID Continue โœ”
XID Start โœ”
Expands On NFC โœ˜
Expands On NFD โœ˜
Expands On NFKC โœ˜
Expands On NFKD โœ˜
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+10404 Deseret Capital Letter Long O
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment โ€”
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+1042C Deseret Small Letter Long O
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R