Sinhala (Unicode block)

Sinhala is a Unicode block containing characters for the Sinhala and Pali languages of Sri Lanka, and is also used for writing Sanskrit in Sri Lanka. The Sinhala allocation is loosely based on the ISCII standard, except that Sinhala contains extra prenasalized consonant letters, leading to inconsistencies with other ISCII-Unicode script allocations.

See also: Sinhala Archaic Numbers (Unicode block)
Sinhala
RangeU+0D80..U+0DFF
(128 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsSinhala
Major alphabetsSinhala
Pali
Sanskrit
Assigned91 code points
Unused37 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.0 (1999)80 (+80)
7.0 (2014)90 (+10)
13.0 (2020)91 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Block
Sinhala[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+0D8x ඁ ං ඃ අ ආ ඇ ඈ ඉ ඊ උ ඌ ඍ ඎ ඏ
U+0D9x ඐ එ ඒ ඓ ඔ ඕ ඖ ක ඛ ග ඝ ඞ ඟ
U+0DAx ච ඡ ජ ඣ ඤ ඥ ඦ ට ඨ ඩ ඪ ණ ඬ ත ථ ද
U+0DBx ධ න ඳ ප ඵ බ භ ම ඹ ය ර ල
U+0DCx ව ශ ෂ ස හ ළ ෆ ් ා
U+0DDx ැ ෑ ි ී ු ූ ෘ ෙ ේ ෛ ො ෝ ෞ ෟ
U+0DEx ෦ ෧ ෨ ෩ ෪ ෫ ෬ ෭ ෮ ෯
U+0DFx ෲ ෳ ෴
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 Sinhala block:

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
3.0U+0D82..0D83, 0D85..0D96, 0D9A..0DB1, 0DB3..0DBB, 0DBD, 0DC0..0DC6, 0DCA, 0DCF..0DD4, 0DD6, 0DD8..0DDF, 0DF2..0DF480L2/97-019N1480Ginige, S. L. (1996-11-15), Request to add Sinhalese to 10646 based on recent Sinhalese Standard (SLS 1134-1996)
L2/97-019.1Sri Lanka standard Sinhala character code for information interchange
L2/97-018N1473REverson, Michael (1997-03-01), Proposal for encoding the Sinhala script in ISO/IEC 10646 (revision 1)
N1532Ross, Hugh McGregor (1997-03-07), Comment on Sri Lanka Proposal for Sinhala Script
L2/97-030N1503 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1997-04-01), "8.6", Unconfirmed Minutes of WG 2 Meeting #32, Singapore; 1997-01-20--24
L2/97-145N1589Everson, Michael (1997-06-13), Mapping of Sinhala between ISO/IEC 10646 and SLS 1134
N1585Disanayaka, J. B. (1997-06-25), Towards Standard Sinhala Character Code
N1584Adams, Glenn (1997-06-30), Feedback on Sinhala Script Proposals (N1480, N 1473R, etc.)
L2/97-158N1613Report of ad-hoc group on Sinhala encoding, 1997-07-02
L2/97-288N1603Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "8.7", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997
L2/98-319N1896Revised text of 10646-1/FPDAM 21, AMENDMENT 21: Sinhala, 1998-10-22
L2/99-010N1903 (pdf, html, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25
L2/10-164Dias, Gihan (2010-05-05), Sinhala Named Sequences
L2/10-108Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "Consensus 123-C32", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes, Accept three Sinhala named sequences as provisional in Unicode 6.0...
N3903 (pdf, doc)"M57.09 (Named USIs for Sinhala)", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31
7.0U+0DE6..0DEF10L2/07-268N3253 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.28", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
L2/08-007Inclusion of archaic Sinhala numerals in the Sinhala character code range, 2008-01-07
L2/08-068Dias, Gihan (2008-01-28), Archaic Sinhala Numerals
L2/08-105Observations on the Encoding of Archaic Sinhala Numerals in Unicode/UCS, 2008-02-05
L2/08-003Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), "Archaic Sinhala Numerals", UTC #114 Minutes
L2/10-165Dias, Gihan (2010-05-03), Preliminary Proposal to Encode Sinhala Digits and Numerals
L2/10-312Dias, Gihan (2010-08-10), Proposal to Encode Sinhala Archaic Numerals and Numbers
L2/10-337N3888Proposal to include Sinhala Numerals to the BMP and SMP of the UCS, 2010-08-19
N3888-ASenaweera, L. N. (2010-09-10), Sri Lanka's proposal on Sinhala Numerals for inclusion in Information Technology - Universal Multiple Octet Coded Character Set, ISO/IEC 10646 : 2003
N3888-BUnicode Character Properties of Sinhala Lith Illakkam (Sinhala Astrological Digits) and Sinhala Illakkam or Sinhala Archaic Numbers
L2/10-433Wijayawardhana, Harsha; et al. (2010-10-23), RE: Background information on the use of Sinhala Numerals (L2/10-337)
L2/10-416RMoore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "Sinhala Numerals", UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes
N3903 (pdf, doc)"M57.14", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31
13.0U+0D811L2/18-060N4964A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2018-02-05), Proposal to encode the CANDRABINDU for Sinhala
L2/18-079Anderson, Deborah (2018-03-21), Feedback on Sinhala candrabindu (L2/18-060)
L2/18-168Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Chapman, Chris; Cook, Richard (2018-04-28), "10. Sinhala", Recommendations to UTC #155 April-May 2018 on Script Proposals
L2/18-115Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "D.4.1", UTC #155 Minutes
L2/18-183Moore, Lisa (2018-11-20), "B.1.3.1.1.1", UTC #156 Minutes
N5020 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "10.3.14", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67
L2/20-052Pournader, Roozbeh (2020-01-15), Changes to Identifier_Type of some Unicode 13.0 characters
L2/20-015RMoore, Lisa (2020-05-14), "B.13.4 Changes to Identifier_Type of some Unicode 13.0 characters", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References
  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
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