Bhaiksuki (Unicode block)
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Short description: Unicode character block
| Bhaiksuki | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+11C00..U+11C6F (112 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Bhaiksuki |
| Assigned | 97 code points |
| Unused | 15 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 9.0 | 97 (+97) |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Bhaiksuki is a Unicode block containing characters from the Bhaiksuki alphabet, which is a Brahmi-based script that was used for writing Sanskrit during the 11th and 12th centuries CE, mainly in the present-day states of Bihar and West Bengal in India, and in parts of Bangladesh.[3]
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Bhaiksuki block:
| Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.0 | U+11C00..11C08, 11C0A..11C36, 11C38..11C45, 11C50..11C6C | 97 | L2/11-259 | N4121 | Pandey, Anshuman (2011-07-11), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Bhaiksuki Script in ISO/IEC 10646 |
| L2/11-298 | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2011-07-27), South Asian subcommittee report | ||||
| L2/13-167 | N4469 | Pandey, Anshuman; Dimitrov, Dragomir (2013-07-22), Proposal to Encode the Bhaiksuki Script in ISO/IEC 10646 | |||
| L2/13-165 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-07-25), Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/13-194 | N4489 | Pandey, Anshuman; Dimitrov, Dragomir (2013-10-27), Revised Proposal to Encode the Bhaiksuki Script in ISO/IEC 10646 | |||
| L2/14-053 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-01-26), Recommendations to UTC #138 February 2014 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/14-036 | Pandey, Anshuman; Dimitrov, Dragomir (2014-01-27), Revised Proposal to Encode the Bhaiksuki Script in ISO/IEC 10646 | ||||
| L2/14-091 | N4573 | Pandey, Anshuman; Dimitrov, Dragomir (2014-04-23), Final Proposal to Encode the Bhaiksuki Script in ISO/IEC 10646 | |||
| L2/14-129 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh (2014-05-02), Recommendations to UTC #139 May 2014 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/14-100 | Moore, Lisa (2014-05-13), UTC #139 Minutes | ||||
| N4553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA | ||||
| L2/16-052 | N4603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63 | |||
| L2/16-121 | Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), UTC #147 Minutes, "Change the general category of characters U+11C38..U+11C3B from "Mc" to "Mn" and make them Indic Position Category = "top", for Unicode 9.0." | ||||
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References
- ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ↑ Pandey, Anshuman; Dimitrov, Dragomir (2014-04-23). "N4573: Final Proposal to Encode the Bhaiksuki Script in ISO/IEC 10646". http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n4573.pdf. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
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