Buhid (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Buhid
RangeU+1740..U+175F
(32 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsBuhid
Major alphabetsBuhid
Assigned20 code points
Unused12 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.220 (+20)
Note: [1][2]

Buhid is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Buhid language of the Philippines.


History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
L2/98-397 Everson, Michael (1998-11-23), Revised proposal for encoding the Philippine scripts in the UCS 
L2/99-014 N1933 Everson, Michael (1998-11-23), Revised proposal for encoding the Philippine scripts in the UCS 
L2/98-419 (pdf, doc) Aliprand, Joan (1999-02-05), Approved Minutes -- UTC #78 & NCITS Subgroup L2 # 175 Joint Meeting, San Jose, CA -- December 1-4, 1998, "[#78-M8] Motion:To accept document L2/98-397, Revised proposal for encoding Philippine scripts, for addition to the Unicode Standard after Version 3.0." 
L2/99-232 N2003 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1999-08-03), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 36, Fukuoka, Japan, 1999-03-09--15 
L2/00-097 N2194 Sato, T. K. (2000-02-22), Philippino characters (status report) 
L2/00-357 Everson, Michael (2000-10-16), Philippine Scripts (draft block description) 
L2/01-050 N2253 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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