Kharoshthi (Unicode block)
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Short description: Unicode character block
| Kharoshthi | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+10A00..U+10A5F (96 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Kharoshthi |
| Major alphabets | Gandhari Sanskrit |
| Assigned | 68 code points |
| Unused | 28 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 4.1 | 65 (+65) |
| 11.0 | 68 (+3) |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Kharoshthi is a Unicode block containing characters used to write the Gandhari and Sanskrit languages in northwest India from the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE.
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Kharoshthi block:
| Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L2/02-424 | McGowan, Rick (2002-11-20), Supplementary Information to Accompany L2/02-203R2, Proposal to Encode Kharoshthi | ||||
| L2/03-314R2 | N2732 | Glass, Andrew; Baums, Stefan; Salomon, Richard (2003-09-18), Proposal to Encode Kharoshthi in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646 | |||
| N2956 | Freytag, Asmus (2005-08-12), Unicode Consortium Liaison Report for WG2 Meeting #47 | ||||
| L2/05-180 | Moore, Lisa (2005-08-17), UTC #104 Minutes, "Change the representative glyphs for Kharoshthi U+10A3F and Khmer U+17D2 to be the same as U+17D2, but with both enclosed in a dashed box..." | ||||
| N2953 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15 | ||||
| 11.0 | U+10A34..10A35, 10A48 | 3 | L2/17-012 | N4812 | Glass, Andrew; Baums, Stefan (2017-01-17), Additional Characters for Kharoṣṭhī Script |
| 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 | ||||
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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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