Oriya (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Oriya
RangeU+0B00..U+0B7F
(128 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsOriya
Major alphabetsOriya
Khondi
Santali
Assigned91 code points
Unused37 reserved code points
Source standardsISCII
Unicode version history
1.0.078 (+78)
1.179 (+1)
4.081 (+2)
5.184 (+3)
6.090 (+6)
13.091 (+1)
Note: [1][2][3]

Oriya is a Unicode block containing characters for the Odia, Khondi and Santali languages of the state of Odisha in India . In its original incarnation, the code points U+0B01..U+0B4D were a direct copy of the Odia characters A1-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.

Odia script combines symbols into hundreds of consonant ligatures.

Block

History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count UTC ID L2 ID WG2 ID Document
1.0.0 U+0B01..0B03, 0B05..0B0C, 0B0F..0B10, 0B13..0B28, 0B2A..0B30, 0B32..0B33, 0B36..0B39, 0B3C..0B43, 0B47..0B48, 0B4B..0B4D, 0B57, 0B5C..0B5D, 0B5F..0B61, 0B66..0B70 78 UTC/1991-056 Whistler, Ken, Indic Charts: Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam 
UTC/1991-057 Whistler, Ken, Indic names list 
UTC/1991-048B Whistler, Ken (1991-03-27), Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple 
L2/01-303 Vikas, Om (2001-07-26), Letter from the Government from India on "Draft for Unicode Standard for Indian Scripts" 
L2/01-304 Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0, 2001-08-02 
L2/01-305 McGowan, Rick (2001-08-08), Draft UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0" 
L2/01-430R McGowan, Rick (2001-11-20), UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0" 
L2/20-055 Pournader, Roozbeh (2020-01-16), Proposed sequences for composition exclusions 
L2/20-015 Moore, Lisa (2020-01-23), Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162 
1.1 U+0B56 1 (to be determined)
4.0 U+0B35, 0B71 2 L2/01-431R[lower-alpha 2] McGowan, Rick (2001-11-08), Actions for UTC and Editorial Committee in response to L2/01-430R 
L2/01-405R Moore, Lisa (2001-12-12), Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting in Mountain View, November 6-9, 2001, "Accept the twelve Indic characters with names and coding positions as documented in L2/01-431R" 
L2/02-117 N2425 McGowan, Rick (2002-03-21), Additional Characters for Indic Scripts 
N2525 Everson, Michael; Stone, Anthony (2002-11-21), On Oriya VA and WA, and a proposal to encode one Oriya letter in the UCS 
L2/03-102 Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts 
L2/03-101.7 Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Oriya document], 2003-03-04 
5.1 U+0B44, 0B62..0B63 3 L2/03-102 Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts 
L2/03-101.7 Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Oriya document], 2003-03-04 
L2/05-063 Vikas, Om (2005-02-07), Issues in Representation of Indic Scripts in Unicode 
L2/05-070 McGowan, Rick (2005-02-09), Indic ad hoc report 
L2/05-026 Moore, Lisa (2005-05-16), UTC #102 Minutes 
L2/07-118R2 Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), UTC #111 Minutes 
L2/07-196 N3272 Everson, Michael (2007-05-25), Proposal to encode four characters for Oriya and Malayalam 
L2/07-268 N3253 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27 
6.0 U+0B72..0B77 6 L2/07-413 Pandey, Anshuman (2007-12-04), Proposal to Encode Oriya Fraction Signs 
L2/08-199 N3471 Pandey, Anshuman (2008-05-05), Proposal to Encode Oriya Fraction Signs in ISO/IEC 10646 
L2/08-199R Pandey, Anshuman (2008-05-05), Proposal to Encode Oriya Fraction Signs in ISO/IEC 10646 
L2/08-161R2 Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), UTC #115 Minutes 
L2/08-412 N3553 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53 
13.0 U+0B55 1 L2/19-005R2 N5023 Evans, Lorna (2019-01-01), Proposal to encode ORIYA SIGN OVERLINE 
L2/19-047 Anderson, Deborah (2019-01-13), Recommendations to UTC #158 January 2019 on Script Proposals 
L2/19-008 Moore, Lisa (2019-02-08), UTC #158 Minutes 
L2/19-286 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2019-07-22), Recommendations to UTC #160 July 2019 on Script Proposals 
L2/19-270 Moore, Lisa (2019-08-02), UTC #160 Minutes 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
  2. See also L2/01-303, L2/01-304, L2/01-305, and L2/01-430R

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