Indic Siyaq Numbers

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See also: Ottoman Siyaq Numbers
Short description: Unicode character block
Indic Siyaq Numbers
RangeU+1EC70..U+1ECBF
(80 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCommon
Assigned68 code points
Unused12 reserved code points
Unicode version history
11.068 (+68)
Note: [1][2]

Indic Siyaq Numbers is a Unicode block containing a specialized subset of the Arabic script that was used for accounting in India under the Mughals by the 17th century through the middle of the 20th century.[3][4]

Block

History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
11.0 U+1EC71..1ECB4 68 L2/07-414 Pandey, Anshuman (2007-12-04), Proposal to Encode Siyaq Numerals 
L2/09-166 N4118 Pandey, Anshuman (2009-05-02), A Model for Encoding Numerals of the Ottoman Siyaq System 
L2/11-270 N4123 Pandey, Anshuman (2011-07-13), Preliminary Proposal to Encode Indic Siyaq Numbers 
L2/15-149 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Pandey, Anshuman; Glass, Andrew (2015-05-03), Recommendations to UTC #143 May 2015 on Script Proposals 
L2/15-312 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2015-11-01), Recommendations to UTC #145 November 2015 on Script Proposals 
L2/15-121R2 Pandey, Anshuman (2015-11-05), Proposal to Encode Indic Siyaq Numbers 
L2/15-254 Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), UTC #145 Minutes 
L2/16-121 Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), UTC #147 Minutes 
L2/19-047 Anderson, Deborah (2019-01-13), Recommendations to UTC #158 January 2019 on Script Proposals 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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