Gujarati (Unicode block)

Gujarati is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Gujarati language. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0A81..U+0AD0 were a direct copy of the Gujarati characters A1-F0 from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.

Gujarati
RangeU+0A80..U+0AFF
(128 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsGujarati
Major alphabetsGujarati
Assigned91 code points
Unused37 reserved code points
Source standardsISCII
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)75 (+75)
1.1 (1993)78 (+3)
4.0 (2003)83 (+5)
6.1 (2012)84 (+1)
8.0 (2015)85 (+1)
10.0 (2017)91 (+6)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2][3]

Block

Gujarati[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+0A8x
U+0A9x
U+0AAx
U+0ABx િ
U+0ACx
U+0ADx
U+0AEx
U+0AFx ૿
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

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

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountUTC IDL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
1.0.0U+0A81..0A83, 0A85..0A8B, 0A8F..0A90, 0A93..0AA8, 0AAA..0AB0, 0AB2..0AB3, 0AB5..0AB9, 0ABC..0AC5, 0AC7..0AC8, 0ACB..0ACD, 0AD0, 0AE0, 0AE6..0AEF75UTC/1991-056Whistler, Ken, Indic Charts: Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam
UTC/1991-057Whistler, Ken, Indic names list
UTC/1991-048BWhistler, Ken (1991-03-27), "III. L. Walk In proposals", Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple
L2/01-303Vikas, Om (2001-07-26), Letter from the Government from India on "Draft for Unicode Standard for Indian Scripts"
L2/01-304Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0, 2001-08-02
L2/01-305McGowan, Rick (2001-08-08), Draft UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
L2/01-430RMcGowan, Rick (2001-11-20), UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
1.1U+0A8D, 0A91, 0AC93(to be determined)
4.0U+0A8C, 0AE1..0AE3, 0AF15L2/01-431R[lower-alpha 2]McGowan, Rick (2001-11-08), Actions for UTC and Editorial Committee in response to L2/01-430R
L2/01-405RMoore, Lisa (2001-12-12), "Consensus 89-C19", 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
L2/02-117N2425McGowan, Rick (2002-03-21), Additional Characters for Indic Scripts
L2/03-102Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
L2/03-101.3Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Gujarati document], 2003-03-04
L2/09-331Pandey, Anshuman (2009-10-07), Proposal to Deprecate GUJARATI RUPEE SIGN
L2/10-015RMoore, Lisa (2010-02-09), "Action item 122-A73", UTC #122 / L2 #219 Minutes, Add an annotation to U+0AF1 indicating the preferred spelling for the Rupee sign, in a future version of the standard.
6.1U+0AF01L2/00-417Cooper, M. N., Unicode Representation of Indian Scripts
L2/03-101.3Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Gujarati document], 2003-03-04
L2/09-330N3764Pandey, Anshuman (2009-10-02), Proposal to Encode An Abbreviation Sign for Gujarati
L2/10-068N3810Anderson, Deborah (2010-02-05), "T.8", Document requesting new additions to 10646
L2/10-015RMoore, Lisa (2010-02-09), "Consensus 122-C25", UTC #122 / L2 #219 Minutes
N3803 (pdf, doc)"M56.08e", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 56, 2010-09-24
8.0U+0AF91L2/13-066Rajan, Vinodh (2013-04-23), Proposal to encode Gujarati Sign Triple Nukta
L2/13-086Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-04-26), "9", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
L2/13-143N4473Rajan, Vinodh (2013-07-16), Proposal to encode Gujarati Letter ZHA
L2/13-165Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-07-25), "Gujarati", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
L2/13-132Moore, Lisa (2013-07-29), "D.4", UTC #136 Minutes
N4553 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.04a", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA
10.0U+0AFA..0AFF6L2/14-131N4574Pandey, Anshuman (2014-05-02), Proposal to Encode Gujarati Signs for the Transliteration of Arabic
L2/15-149Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Pandey, Anshuman; Glass, Andrew (2015-05-03), "4. Gujarati", Recommendations to UTC #143 May 2015 on Script Proposals
L2/15-107Moore, Lisa (2015-05-12), "D.7.1", UTC #143 Minutes
L2/15-103RPandey, Anshuman (2015-06-02), Revised Proposal to Encode Gujarati Signs for the Transliteration of Arabic
  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

References

  1. "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
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