CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Runic Range U+16A0..U+16FF (96 code points) Plane BMP Scripts Runic (86 char.) Common (3 char.) Major alphabets Futhark Assigned 89 code points Unused 7 reserved code points Unicode version history 3.0 81 (+81) 7.0 89 (+8) Note : [1] [2] Runic is a Unicode block containing runic characters . It was introduced in Unicode 3.0 (1999), with eight additional characters introduced in Unicode 7.0 (2014). [3] The original encoding of runes in UCS was based on the recommendations of the "ISO Runes Project" submitted in 1997. [4] The block is intended for the representation of text written in Elder Futhark , Anglo-Saxon runes , Younger Futhark (both in the long-branch and short-twig variants), Scandinavian medieval runes and early modern runic calendars ...