Makasar (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Makasar
RangeU+11EE0..U+11EFF
(32 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsMakasar
Assigned25 code points
Unused7 reserved code points
Unicode version history
11.025 (+25)
Note: [1][2]

Makasar is a Unicode block containing characters for Makasar script (also known as "Old Makassarese" or "Makassarese bird script" in English-language scholarly works).[3] The script was used historically in South Sulawesi, Indonesia for writing the Makassarese language.[4]

Block

History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID Document
11.0 U+11EE0..11EF8 25 L2/15-100 Pandey, Anshuman (2015-06-24), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Makassarese Bird Script 
L2/15-179 Pandey, Anshuman (2015-07-18), Proposal to Encode the Old Makassarese Script 
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 
L2/15-233 Pandey, Anshuman (2015-11-02), Proposal to encode the Makasar script 
L2/15-254 Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), UTC #145 Minutes 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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