Bhaiksuki (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Bhaiksuki
RangeU+11C00..U+11C6F
(112 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsBhaiksuki
Assigned97 code points
Unused15 reserved code points
Unicode version history
9.097 (+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." 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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