Bengali (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode block
Short description: Unicode character block
Bengali
RangeU+0980..U+09FF
(128 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsBengali
Major alphabetsBengali, Assamese
Assigned96 code points
Unused32 reserved code points
Source standardsISCII
Unicode version history
1.0.089 (+89)
4.090 (+1)
4.191 (+1)
5.292 (+1)
7.093 (+1)
10.095 (+2)
11.096 (+1)
Note: [1][2]

Bengali Unicode block contains characters for the Bengali, Assamese, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Daphla, Garo, Hallam, Khasi, Mizo, Munda, Naga, Riang, and Santali languages. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0981..U+09CD were a direct copy of the Bengali characters A1-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard, as well as several Assamese ISCII characters in the U+09F0 column. The Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on ISCII encodings.

Block

History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count UTC ID L2 ID WG2 ID Document
1.0.0 U+0981..0983, 0985..098C, 098F..0990, 0993..09A8, 09AA..09B0, 09B2, 09B6..09B9, 09BC, 09BE..09C4, 09C7..09C8, 09CB..09CD, 09D7, 09DC..09DD, 09DF..09E3, 09E6..09FA 89 UTC/1991-056 Whistler, Ken, Indic Charts: Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam 
UTC/1991-057 Whistler, Ken, Indic names list 
UTC/1991-048B Whistler, Ken (1991-03-27), Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple 
L2/01-303 Vikas, Om (2001-07-26), Letter from the Government from India on "Draft for Unicode Standard for Indian Scripts" 
L2/01-304 Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0, 2001-08-02 
L2/01-305 McGowan, Rick (2001-08-08), Draft UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0" 
L2/01-430R McGowan, Rick (2001-11-20), UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0" 
L2/08-288 Whistler, Ken (2008-08-04), Public Review Issue #123: Bengali Currency Numerator Values 
L2/08-361 Moore, Lisa (2008-12-02), UTC #117 Minutes 
L2/09-225R Moore, Lisa (2009-08-17), UTC #120 / L2 #217 Minutes 
L2/20-055 Pournader, Roozbeh (2020-01-16), Proposed sequences for composition exclusions 
L2/20-015 Moore, Lisa (2020-01-23), Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162 
4.0 U+09BD 1 L2/01-431R[lower-alpha 2] McGowan, Rick (2001-11-08), Actions for UTC and Editorial Committee in response to L2/01-430R 
L2/01-405R Moore, Lisa (2001-12-12), Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting in Mountain View, November 6-9, 2001, "Accept the twelve Indic characters with names and coding positions as documented in L2/01-431R" 
L2/02-117 N2425 McGowan, Rick (2002-03-21), Additional Characters for Indic Scripts 
L2/03-084 Jain, Manoj (2003-03-03), Proposed changes in the Unicode Standards for Indic Scripts - Bengali 
L2/03-102 Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts 
L2/03-101.1 Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Bengali document], 2003-03-04 
L2/03-104 Jain, Manoj (2003-03-04), Sample Text for Bengali Sign Avagraha 
L2/04-102 Pavanaja, U. B. (2004-02-10), Bug in Kannada collation 
L2/04-432 Wissink, Cathy (2004-12-31), Indic collation: action items 99-20 and 99-29 
4.1 U+09CE 1 L2/00-303 N2261 Incorporation of Bangla (Bengali) Coded Character in ISO/IEC 10646-1, 2000-08-23 
L2/00-304 N2261-1 Proposal Summary Form for character U+09BA, KHANDATA, 2000-08-23 
L2/01-050 N2253 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000 
L2/03-084 Jain, Manoj (2003-03-03), Proposed changes in the Unicode Standards for Indic Scripts - Bengali 
L2/03-102 Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts 
L2/03-101.1 Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Bengali document], 2003-03-04 
L2/04-060 Sengupta, Gautam (2004-02-01), Encoding Bangla Khanda-Ta With Ta+Virama 
L2/04-062 Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Encoding Bangla Khanda-Ta With Ta+Virama 
L2/04-102 Pavanaja, U. B. (2004-02-10), Bug in Kannada collation 
L2/04-262 N2810 Constable, Peter (2004-02-17), Encoding of Bengali Khanda Ta in Unicode (PRI #30 document) 
L2/04-192 N2811 Sengupta, Gautam (2004-06-07), Feedback on PR-30: Encoding of Bangla Khanda Ta in Unicode 
L2/04-233 N2812 Vikas, Om (2004-06-10), Letter to Mark Davis re Bengali Khanda Ta 
L2/04-252 N2813 Constable, Peter (2004-06-15), Review of Bengali Khanda Ta and PRI-30 Feedback 
L2/04-264 N2809 Constable, Peter (2004-06-17), Proposal to encode Bengali Khanda Ta in the UCS 
L2/04-432 Wissink, Cathy (2004-12-31), Indic collation: action items 99-20 and 99-29 
5.2 U+09FB 1 N3353 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27 
L2/07-192 N3311 Pandey, Anshuman (2007-05-21), Proposal to Encode the Ganda Currency Mark for Bengali in the BMP of the UCS 
L2/07-225 Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), UTC #112 Minutes 
7.0 U+0980 1 L2/11-359 Pandey, Anshuman (2011-10-21), Proposal to Encode the Sign Anji for Bengali 
L2/11-403 Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2011-10-26), Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC 
L2/11-408 Lata, Swaran (2011-10-27), Letter from Swaran Lata, Gov't of India, re proposals 
L2/12-079 Lata, Swaran (2012-02-07), Inputs of Govt. of India on various documents 
L2/12-121 N4157 Pandey, Anshuman (2012-04-23), Proposal to Encode the Sign ANJI for Bengali 
L2/12-147 Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-04-25), Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC 
L2/12-184 Lata, Swaran (2012-05-07), GOI Feedback on the various Indic related documents 
L2/12-277 Lata, Swaran (2012-07-26), GOI Feedback on the various Indic related document submitted to UTC 
10.0 U+09FC 1 L2/15-204 Anderson, Deborah (2015-07-25), Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals 
L2/15-161 Sharma, Shriramana (2015-07-31), Proposal to encode 09CF BENGALI LETTER VEDIC ANUSVARA 
L2/15-187 Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), UTC #144 Minutes 
N4739 Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31 
U+09FD 1 L2/15-172R A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2015-07-09), Proposal to Encode an Abbreviation Sign for Bengali 
L2/15-204 Anderson, Deborah (2015-07-25), Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals 
L2/15-187 Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), UTC #144 Minutes 
N4739 Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31 
11.0 U+09FE 1 L2/16-322 N4808 A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2016-11-01), Proposal to encode the SANDHI MARK for Bengali 
L2/17-037 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Ishida, Richard et al. (2017-01-21), Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals 
L2/17-016 Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), UTC #150 Minutes 
L2/17-130 Anderson, Deborah (2017-04-19), Comments on L2/16-322 and L2/16-383, Sandhi marks for Bengali and Newa 
L2/17-153 Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals 
L2/17-103 Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), UTC #151 Minutes 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
  2. See also L2/01-303, L2/01-304, L2/01-305, and L2/01-430R

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