Phaistos Disc (Unicode block)

Taking account of this fact, the Unicode directionality property of the characters was set to "left-to-right" (LTR), and the sign images in most Unicode fonts are left-to-right reversed compared to their appearance on the disk.

Therefore, the "normal" orientation of those signs is not known, and may be undefined; each Unicode font may make its own choice.

Their proposal followed included the 45 symbols defined by Arthur Evans in 1909 [6] (and used in practically all scholarly articles) as well as the sign modifier U+101FD PHAISTOS DISK SIGN COMBINING OBLIQUE STROKE (the short diagonal stroke added below some symbols) and the punctuation symbols U+101FE PHAISTOS DISK SIGN SEPARATOR (the radial line between "words") and U+101FF PHAISTOS DISK SIGN START OF TEXT (a radial line with five dots).

[7] The Unicode consortium adopted most of their proposal for inclusion in version 5.1 (2008), except the two alleged "punctuation" symbols U+101FE and U+101FF.

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