Khmer (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Khmer
RangeU+1780..U+17FF
(128 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsKhmer
Major alphabetsKhmer
Assigned114 code points
Unused14 reserved code points
2 deprecated
Unicode version history
3.0103 (+103)
4.0114 (+11)
Note: [1][2]

Khmer is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Khmer (Cambodian) language. For details of the characters, see Khmer alphabet – Unicode.

Block

History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
L2/97-194 Bauhahn, Maurice (1997-07-30), Proposal for Encoding of the Khmer Script 
L2/97-255R Aliprand, Joan (1997-12-03), Approved Minutes – UTC #73 & L2 #170 joint meeting, Palo Alto, CA – August 4-5, 1997 
L2/98-039 Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1998-02-24), Preliminary Minutes - UTC #74 & L2 #171, Mountain View, CA - December 5, 1997 
L2/98-101 N1729 Ad-hoc report on Burmese and Khmer, 1998-03-18 
L2/98-175 N1779 Text for PDAM registration and consideration ballot for ISO 10646-1 Amendment 25 - Khmer, 1998-05-11 
N1825 Paterson, Bruce (1998-05-11), PDAM25 - Khmer cover sheet 
N1825.1 Paterson, Bruce (1998-05-11), PDAM25 - Khmer full text 
L2/98-158 Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1998-05-26), Draft Minutes – UTC #76 & NCITS Subgroup L2 #173 joint meeting, Tredyffrin, Pennsylvania, April 20-22, 1998 
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 
L2/98-359 N1856 Sato, T. K. (1998-08-21), Addition of Rial sign on ISO/IEC 10646-1 
L2/98-324 N1901 ISO/IEC 10646-1/FPDAM 25, AMENDMENT 25: Khmer, 1998-10-23 
L2/98-341 Disposition of comments report on SC2 N3105, ISO 10646 Amd. 25: Khmer, 1998-10-23 
N1911 Paterson, Bruce; Everson, Michael (1998-10-23), Text of FPDAM 25 - Khmer - SC2 N3201 
L2/99-010 N1903 (pdf, html, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25 
L2/99-128 Paterson, Bruce (1999-04-14), Text for FDAM ballot ISO/IEC 10646 FDAM #25 - Khmer 
L2/99-232 N2003 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1999-08-03), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 36, Fukuoka, Japan, 1999-03-09--15 
L2/00-009 N2149 Sato, T. K. (2000-01-05), Khmer Up-Date 
L2/00-056 N2164 Sato, T. K. (2000-02-23), AMD-25 (Khmer) correction request 
L2/00-109 Suignard, Michel (2000-04-06), Corrections to Khmer character tables in 10646 and Unicode 
L2/00-234 N2203 (rtf, txt) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24 
L2/00-338 N2274 Working Draft of Tables & Character Names for Editorial correction to Khmer for 10646-1:2000, 2000-09-19 
L2/01-307 Whistler, Ken (2001-08-06), Serious bug in Khmer, Myanmar combining classes 
L2/01-308 Hosken, Martin; Whistler, Ken (2001-08-08), Serious bug in Khmer, Myanmar combining classes 
L2/01-310 McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2001-08-12), Khmer issues on the Horizon 
L2/01-372 N2380 Cambodian official objection to the existing Khmer block in UCS, 2001-10-08 
L2/01-382 N2385 Bauhahn, Maurice; Everson, Michael (2001-10-11), Response to Cambodian official objection to Khmer block (N2380) 
L2/01-421 N2380R Cambodian official objection to the existing Khmer block in UCS, 2001-10-14 
L2/01-394 Phu, Leewood (2001-10-17), Letter from Cambodia to JTC 1 Chairman Regarding Khmer Character Encoding in ISO/IEC 10646 
L2/01-443 N2406 Response to WG2 Document N2385, 2001-10-11, 2001-11-04 
L2/01-476 Karlsson, Kent (2001-12-19), Ordering rules for Khmer 
L2/02-016 Whistler, Ken (2002-01-14), Character Properties for repetition marks 
L2/02-017 Whistler, Ken (2002-01-14), Character Properties for avagrahas, etc. 
L2/02-097 Chea, Sok Huor; Lao, Kim Leang; Harada, Shiro; Klein, Norbert (2002-02-13), Proposal to deprecate Khmer characters 
L2/02-131 N2412 Everson, Michael (2002-03-31), On the suitability of the COENG encoding model for Khmer 
L2/02-154 N2403 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2002-04-22), Draft minutes of WG 2 meeting 41, Hotel Phoenix, Singapore, 2001-10-15/19 
L2/02-196 N2458 Harada, Shiro (2002-05-03), On the Unsuitability of "COENG encoding model" for Khmer 
L2/02-211 N2459 Cambodian stance regarding Khmer code table in Unicode 3.2, 2002-05-14 
N2459R Revised Cambodian stance regarding Khmer code table in Unicode, 2002-05-20 
L2/02-166R2 Moore, Lisa (2002-08-09), UTC #91 Minutes, "Leave the ROBAT as it is in the standard today (do not deprecate) and document its use appropriately." 
L2/02-070 Moore, Lisa (2002-08-26), Minutes for UTC #90 
L2/03-430 Davis, Mark (2003-11-10), Problem with Khmer / ZWJ / ZWNJ 
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 
L2/08-287 Davis, Mark (2008-08-04), Public Review Issue #122: Proposal for Additional Deprecated Characters 
L2/08-253R2 Moore, Lisa (2008-08-19), UTC #116 Minutes, "Change the deprecated property by removing 0340, 0341, 17D3, and adding 0149, 0F77, 0F79, 17A4, 2329, 232A." 
L2/08-328 (html, xls) Whistler, Ken (2008-10-14), Spreadsheet of Deprecation and Discouragement 
L2/09-234 N3603 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54 
L2/10-416R Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes 
4.0 U+17DD, 17F0..17F9 11 L2/02-083 Nelson, Paul (2001-12-02), Response and Proposal for Khmer Encoding 
L2/02-100 Chea, Sok Huor; Lao, Kim Leang; Harada, Shiro; Klein, Norbert (2002-02-13), Proposal to add missing Khmer characters 
L2/02-070 Moore, Lisa (2002-08-26), Minutes for UTC #90 
L2/16-163 Pournader, Roozbeh (2015-05-12), Additions to Indic Syllabic Category for Myanmar and Khmer 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References