Kaithi (Unicode block)
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Short description: Unicode character block
| Kaithi | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+11080..U+110CF (80 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Kaithi |
| Major alphabets | Bhojpuri Magahi Awadhi Maithili Urdu Hindi |
| Assigned | 67 code points |
| Unused | 13 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 5.2 | 66 (+66) |
| 11.0 | 67 (+1) |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Kaithi is a Unicode block containing characters historically used for writing Bhojpuri, Bajjika, Magahi, Awadhi, Maithili, Urdu, Hindi, and other related languages of the Bihar/Uttar Pradesh area of northern India.
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Kaithi block:
| Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.2 | U+11080..110C1 | 66 | L2/05-343 | Pandey, Anshuman (2005-10-25), Proposal to Encode the Kaithi Script in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646 | |
| L2/07-199 | Pandey, Anshuman (2007-05-21), Proposal to Encode the Kaithi Script in Plane 1 | ||||
| L2/07-418 | N3389 | Pandey, Anshuman (2007-12-13), Proposal to Encode the Kaithi Script in ISO/IEC 10646 | |||
| L2/08-003 | Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), UTC #114 Minutes | ||||
| L2/08-156 | N3438 | Anderson, Deborah; Pandey, Anshuman (2008-04-11), Request for removal of digits from Kaithi proposal | |||
| L2/08-194 | Pandey, Anshuman (2008-05-06), Proposal to Encode the Kaithi Script in ISO/IEC 10646 | ||||
| L2/08-318 | N3453 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52 | |||
| L2/08-370 | N3544 | Anderson, Deborah (2008-10-15), Proposal to add three Kaithi punctuation marks | |||
| L2/08-400 | Anderson, Deborah (2008-10-29), Information on U+110BD KAITHI NUMBER SIGN | ||||
| L2/08-161R2 | Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), UTC #115 Minutes, "Rescind approval of 10 characters for Kaithi digits, at U+110C0..U+110C9. They will be unified with Devanagari." | ||||
| L2/08-412 | N3553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53 | |||
| L2/08-361 | Moore, Lisa (2008-12-02), UTC #117 Minutes | ||||
| L2/09-070 | Pandey, Anshuman; Anderson, Deborah (2009-02-01), Comments on Kaithi Punctuation Marks and FPDAM 6 | ||||
| L2/09-071 | N3520R | Anderson, Deborah (2009-02-02), Details on Kaithi punctuation (based on N3389) | |||
| L2/09-089 | N3574 | Pandey, Anshuman (2009-02-10), Proposal to Encode Section Marks for Kaithi in ISO/IEC 10646 | |||
| L2/09-003R | Moore, Lisa (2009-02-12), UTC #118 / L2 #215 Minutes | ||||
| L2/09-234 | N3603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54 | |||
| L2/09-270R | Anderson, Deborah (2009-08-05), Kaithi Decomposition Questions for Unicode 5.2 | ||||
| L2/09-225R | Moore, Lisa (2009-08-17), UTC #120 / L2 #217 Minutes | ||||
| 11.0 | U+110CD | 1 | L2/16-097R | Yang, Benjamin (2016-04-29), Proposal to encode Kaithi Number Sign Above | |
| L2/16-156 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-05-06), Recommendations to UTC #147 May 2016 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/16-121 | Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), UTC #147 Minutes | ||||
| 14.0 | U+110C2 | 1 | L2/20-151 | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2020-06-24), Proposal to encode the KAITHI VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC R | |
| 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 | ||||
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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.
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