Many folks don't know that the Unicode standard is actually much older then they think. Here's the spec as of 1889 
"Unicode", 1889: The Universal Telegraphic Phrase-book. A Code of Cypher Words for Commercial ... : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.archive.org
