Tagalog (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Tagalog
RangeU+1700..U+171F
(32 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsTagalog
Major alphabetsBaybayin
Assigned20 code points
Unused12 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.220 (+20)
Note: [1][2]

Tagalog is a Unicode block containing characters of the Baybayin script, specifically the variety used for writing the Tagalog language before Spanish colonization of the Philippines eventually led to the adoption of the Latin alphabet. It has been a part of the Unicode Standard since version 3.2 in April 2002. Tagalog characters can be found in the Noto Sans Tagalog font, among others. The Tagalog Baybayin script was originally proposed for inclusion in Unicode alongside its descendant Hanunoo, Buhid and Tagbanwa scripts as a single block called "Philippine Scripts" and two punctuation marks are only part of the Hanunoo block. In 2021, with version 14.0, the Unicode Standard was updated to add three new characters: the "ra" and archaic "ra", and the pamudpod.


History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
L2/98-397 Everson, Michael (1998-11-23), Revised proposal for encoding the Philippine scripts in the UCS 
L2/99-014 N1933 Everson, Michael (1998-11-23), Revised proposal for encoding the Philippine scripts in the UCS 
L2/98-419 (pdf, doc) Aliprand, Joan (1999-02-05), Approved Minutes -- UTC #78 & NCITS Subgroup L2 # 175 Joint Meeting, San Jose, CA -- December 1-4, 1998, "[#78-M8] Motion:To accept document L2/98-397, Revised proposal for encoding Philippine scripts, for addition to the Unicode Standard after Version 3.0." 
L2/99-232 N2003 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1999-08-03), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 36, Fukuoka, Japan, 1999-03-09--15 
L2/00-097 N2194 Sato, T. K. (2000-02-22), Philippino characters (status report) 
L2/00-357 Everson, Michael (2000-10-16), Philippine Scripts (draft block description) 
L2/01-050 N2253 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000 
14.0 U+170D, 171F 2 L2/19-258R Brennan, Fredrick R. (2019-07-18), The baybayin "ra", its origins and a plea for its formal recognition 
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 (2019-10-07), UTC #160 Minutes 
U+1715 1 L2/20-257 Brennan, Fredrick R. (2020-09-23), Please reclassify the Philippine pamudpod 
L2/20-250 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-10-01), Recommendations to UTC #165 October 2020 on Script Proposals 
L2/20-272 Brennan, Fredrick R. (2020-10-03), Amended proposal to encode the Tagalog pamudpod 
L2/20-237 Moore, Lisa (2020-10-27), UTC #165 Minutes 
L2/21-117 Pournader, Roozbeh (2021-05-20), Pamudpod properties (Tagalog and Hanunoo) 
L2/21-130 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Liang, Hai (2021-07-26), Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals 
L2/21-123 Cummings, Craig (2021-08-03), Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 168 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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