Ol Chiki (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Ol Chiki
RangeU+1C50..U+1C7F
(48 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsOl Chiki
Major alphabetsSantali
Assigned48 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.148 (+48)
Note: [1][2]

Ol Chiki is a Unicode block containing characters of the Ol Chiki, or Ol Cemet' script used for writing the Santali language during the early 20th century.


History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
L2/02-422 N2505 Everson, Michael; Hansdah, R. C.; Murmu, N. C. (2002-11-03), Revised proposal for encoding the Ol Chiki script in the UCS 
L2/02-443 N2561 Raska, Divyendu; Marandi, Archer (2002-11-30), The need and practicalities to encode the 'Roman Script Santali' In the universal character set – a protest against efforts to encode the 'Ol Chiki' in the universal character set. 
L2/02-453 N2562 Anderson, Deborah (2002-12-03), Response to Divyendu Raska 
L2/02-456 Anderson, Deborah (2002-12-09), Comments on Ol Chiki/Summary of Report from West Bengal 
L2/03-008 Raska, Divyendu Tudu (2002-12-16), Letter to Deborah Anderson re Santali 
L2/03-007 Saren, Jyotsna (2002-12-19), General protest against hindering of OL CHIKI 
L2/03-005 Anderson, Deborah (2002-12-30), Letter to D. Mardi 
L2/03-006 Anderson, Deborah (2002-12-30), Letter to Hanuk Hansdak and Ezicheal Hembrom 
L2/03-062 Anderson, Deborah (2003-02-23), Ol Chiki Correspondence Summary 
L2/05-243R N2984R Everson, Michael (2005-09-05), Final proposal to encode the Ol Chiki script in the UCS 
L2/05-270 Whistler, Ken (2005-09-21), WG2 Consent Docket (Sophia Antipolis) 
L2/05-279 Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), UTC #105 Minutes 
N2953 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15 
N3075 Anderson, Deborah (2006-04-10), Support for Ol Chiki (N2984R =L2/05‐243R) 
L2/06-131 Anderson, Deborah (2006-04-12), Support for Ol Chiki 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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