title: Vertical Forms
text: # 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 ||||||
  