Thaana (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Thaana
RangeU+0780..U+07BF
(64 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsThaana
Major alphabetsDhivehi
Assigned50 code points
Unused14 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.049 (+49)
3.250 (+1)
Note: [1][2]

Thaana is a Unicode block containing characters for the Thaana script used for writing the Dhivehi and Arabic languages in the Maldives.


History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count UTC ID L2 ID WG2 ID Document
3.0 U+0780..07B0 49 UTC/1991-100 McGowan, Rick (1991-10-25), Maldivian (Dihevi) block description and chart draft 
L2/97-197 Jenkins, John; Everson, Michael (1997-05-30), Thaana proposal 
L2/97-288 N1603 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997 
L2/97-255R Aliprand, Joan (1997-12-03), Approved Minutes – UTC #73 & L2 #170 joint meeting, Palo Alto, CA – August 4-5, 1997 
L2/98-161 N1699 Everson, Michael (1998-03-10), Thaana new code chart and name list 
L2/98-173 Text for PDAM registration and consideration ballot for ISO 10646-1 Amendment 24 - Thaana, 1998-05-11 
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 
N1834 Summary of Voting/Table of Replies - Amendment 24 - Thaana, 1998-08-27 
L2/98-323 N1909 ISO/IEC 10646-1/FPDAM 24, AMENDMENT 24: Thaana, 1998-10-23 
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 
L2/99-232 N2003 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1999-08-03), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 36, Fukuoka, Japan, 1999-03-09--15 
3.2 U+07B1 1 L2/00-120 Nelson, Paul; Beam, Paul; Gadir, Mohamen Abdul (2000-04-07), Proposal to add characters for use with Thaana Script (Divehi language) 
L2/00-115R2 Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83 
L2/00-187 Moore, Lisa (2000-08-23), UTC minutes -- Boston, August 8-11, 2000 
L2/00-328 N2264 Whistler, Ken (2000-09-19), Proposal for Encoding Thaana letter Naa in the BMP 
L2/01-050 N2253 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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