Brahmi (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Brahmi
RangeU+11000..U+1107F
(128 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsBrahmi
Assigned109 code points
Unused19 reserved code points
Unicode version history
6.0108 (+108)
7.0109 (+1)
Note: [1][2]

Brahmi is a Unicode block containing characters written in India from the 3rd century BCE through the first millennium CE. It is the predecessor to all modern Indic scripts.


History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
L2/98-286 N1703 Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20 
L2/00-128 Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode 
L2/02-397 Baums, Stefan; Glass, Andrew (2002-11-02), Note for the UTC on the encoding of Brahmi in Unicode 
L2/03-249R Baums, Stefan; Glass, Andrew (2003-07-27), Proposal for the Encoding of Brahmi in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646 
L2/08-277R N3490R Everson, Michael; Glass, Andrew; Baums, Stefan (2007-08-14), Progressing the encoding of Brahmi in the SMP of the UCS 
L2/07-342 N3491 Baums, Stefan; Glass, Andrew (2007-10-09), Proposal for the encoding of Brāhmī in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646 
L2/07-406 Glass, Andrew; Baums, Stefan (2007-10-31), Scripts on Roadmap covered by Brahmi encoding (L2/07-342) 
L2/08-253R2 Moore, Lisa (2008-08-19), UTC #116 Minutes 
L2/08-412 N3553 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53 
L2/12-020 Sharma, Shriramana (2012-01-12), Special rendering of some jihvamuliya/upadhmaniya characters 
L2/12-031 Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-01-27), Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC 
L2/12-007 Moore, Lisa (2012-02-14), UTC #130 / L2 #227 Minutes, "The UTC has determined that a virama should not be used in Sharada sequences involving Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya." 
L2/12-106 Sharma, Shriramana (2012-03-17), Request for editorial updates to various Indic scripts 
L2/12-147 Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-04-25), Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC 
L2/12-239 Moore, Lisa (2012-08-14), UTC #132 Minutes, "Create a glyph erratum for Brahmi Letter LLLA based on the image in document L2/12-292." 
L2/14-066 Sharma, Shriramana (2014-02-07), Representation of the Brahmi and Kannada Jihvamuliya/Upadhmaniya Characters in the Code Charts 
L2/16-343 A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2016-11-05), Request to change the glyphs of Brahmi vowel signs Vocalic R and Vocalic RR 
L2/16-321R A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2016-12-23), Request to change the glyph of 11008 BRAHMI LETTER II 
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 
L2/17-224 McGowan, Rick (2017-07-25), Comments on Public Review Issues (May 01 - July 25, 2017) 
L2/17-426 A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-12-08), Request to change the glyphs of THIRTY and FORTY of Brahmi 
L2/18-039 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Cook, Richard (2018-01-19), Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals 
L2/17-362 Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), UTC #153 Minutes 
L2/18-115 Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), UTC #155 Minutes, "Create a glyph erratum for U+1105D and U+1105E." 
7.0 U+1107F 1 L2/10-340 Sharma, Shriramana (2010-09-14), Using ZWJ in the encoded representation of Brahmi numbers 
L2/10-440 Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-10-27), Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC 
L2/10-416R Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes, "Create an alternate proposal for Brahmi numbers." 
L2/11-357R N4166 Glass, Andrew; Sharma, Shriramana (2011-11-02), Proposal to encode 1107F Brahmi Number Joiner 
L2/11-353 Moore, Lisa (2011-11-30), UTC #129 / L2 #226 Minutes 
N4253 (pdf, doc) Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 59, 2012-09-12 
14.0 U+11070..11075 6 L2/19-402 Rajan, Vinodh; Sharma, Shriramana (2019-12-18), Proposal to Encode 6 Characters in the Brahmi Block 
L2/20-046 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2020-01-10), Recommendations to UTC #162 January 2020 on Script Proposals 
L2/20-015R Moore, Lisa (2020-05-14), Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162 
L2/20-129 Ganesan, Naga (2020-06-01), Comments on L2/20-069: Encoding of Tamil Brahmi Virama (U+11070) 
L2/20-169 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-07-21), Recommendations to UTC #164 July 2020 on Script Proposals 
L2/20-172 Moore, Lisa (2020-08-03), UTC #164 Minutes 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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