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Brahmi (Unicode block)
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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Brahmi block: </p> <table><tbody><tr><th><a href="/facts/Unicode/DDu3MfPV">Version</a></th><th>Final code points<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></th><th>Count</th><th><a href="/facts/International_Committee_for_Information_Technology_Standards/CXq4JYfR">L2</a> ID</th><th><a href="/facts/ISO/IEC_JTC_1/SC_2/IcW7grUW">WG2</a> ID</th><th>Document</th></tr><tr><td rowspan="26">6.0</td><td rowspan="26">U+11000..1104D, 11052..1106F</td><td rowspan="26">108</td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1998/98032.pdf">L2/98-032</a></td><td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200215052615/http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1685.htm">N1685</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Michael_Everson/8Se2cLdz">Everson, Michael</a> (1998-01-18), <i>Proposal to encode Brahmi in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646</i></td></tr><tr><td>L2/98-286</td><td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200215052615/http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1703w97.doc">N1703</a></td><td>Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), "8.19", <i>Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2000/00128-pastscripts.pdf">L2/00-128</a></td><td></td><td>Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), <i>Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2002/02397-baums-brahmi.pdf">L2/02-397</a></td><td></td><td>Baums, Stefan; Glass, Andrew (2002-11-02), <i>Note for the UTC on the encoding of Brahmi in Unicode</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2003/03249r-brahmi-proposal.pdf">L2/03-249R</a></td><td></td><td>Baums, Stefan; Glass, Andrew (2003-07-27), <i>Proposal for the Encoding of Brahmi in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08277r-n3490r-brahmi.pdf">L2/08-277R</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3490.pdf">N3490R</a></td><td>Everson, Michael; Glass, Andrew; Baums, Stefan (2007-08-14), <i>Progressing the encoding of Brahmi in the SMP of the UCS</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07342-brahmi.pdf">L2/07-342</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3491.pdf">N3491</a></td><td>Baums, Stefan; Glass, Andrew (2007-10-09), <i>Proposal for the encoding of Brāhmī in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07406-brahmi-note.txt">L2/07-406</a></td><td></td><td>Glass, Andrew; Baums, Stefan (2007-10-31), <i>Scripts on Roadmap covered by Brahmi encoding (L2/07-342)</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08253.htm">L2/08-253R2</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2008-08-19), "Brahmi (B.15.1, C.3.1)", <i>UTC #116 Minutes</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08412-n3553.pdf">L2/08-412</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3553.pdf">N3553 (pdf</a>, <a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3553.doc">doc</a>)</td><td>Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), "M53.22", <i>Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12020-jihva-upadh-special-cases.pdf">L2/12-020</a></td><td></td><td>Sharma, Shriramana (2012-01-12), <i>Special rendering of some jihvamuliya/upadhmaniya characters</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12031-south-asian-rept.pdf">L2/12-031</a></td><td></td><td>Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-01-27), "III. BRAHMI", <i>Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12007.htm">L2/12-007</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2012-02-14), "Consensus 130-C11", <i>UTC #130 / L2 #227 Minutes</i>, The UTC has determined that a virama should not be used in Sharada sequences involving Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12106-ed-updates.pdf">L2/12-106</a></td><td></td><td>Sharma, Shriramana (2012-03-17), "5. Brahmi", <i>Request for editorial updates to various Indic scripts</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12147-script-rept.pdf">L2/12-147</a></td><td></td><td>Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-04-25), "V. BRAHMI", <i>Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12239.htm">L2/12-239</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2012-08-14), "Consensus 132-C16", <i>UTC #132 Minutes</i>, Create a glyph erratum for Brahmi Letter LLLA based on the image in document L2/12-292.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2014/14066-brahmi-kannada.txt">L2/14-066</a></td><td></td><td>Sharma, Shriramana (2014-02-07), <i>Representation of the Brahmi and Kannada Jihvamuliya/Upadhmaniya Characters in the Code Charts</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16343-brahmi-vs-glyphs.pdf">L2/16-343</a></td><td></td><td>A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2016-11-05), <i>Request to change the glyphs of Brahmi vowel signs Vocalic R and Vocalic RR</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16321r-brahmi-11008-glyph.pdf">L2/16-321R</a></td><td></td><td>A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2016-12-23), <i>Request to change the glyph of 11008 BRAHMI LETTER II</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17037-script-ad-hoc.pdf">L2/17-037</a></td><td></td><td>Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Ishida, Richard; Misra, Karan; McGowan, Rick (2017-01-21), "3. Brahmi", <i>Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17016.htm">L2/17-016</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "Consensus 150-C11, Action item 150-A64", <i>UTC #150 Minutes</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17224-pubrev.html">L2/17-224</a></td><td></td><td>McGowan, Rick (2017-07-25), "Dotted box for Brahmi/Kannada fricative characters", <i>Comments on Public Review Issues (May 01 - July 25, 2017)</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17426-brahmi-30-40-glyph-chg.pdf">L2/17-426</a></td><td></td><td>A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-12-08), <i>Request to change the glyphs of THIRTY and FORTY of Brahmi</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18039-script-adhoc-rec.pdf">L2/18-039</a></td><td></td><td>Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Cook, Richard (2018-01-19), "8. Brahmi", <i>Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17362.htm">L2/17-362</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "153-A92", <i>UTC #153 Minutes</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18115.htm">L2/18-115</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "Action item 154-A103", <i>UTC #155 Minutes</i>, Create a glyph erratum for U+1105D and U+1105E.</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="6">7.0</td><td rowspan="6">U+1107F</td><td rowspan="6">1</td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10340-brahmi-num-cmt.pdf">L2/10-340</a></td><td></td><td>Sharma, Shriramana (2010-09-14), <i>Using ZWJ in the encoded representation of Brahmi numbers</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10440-south-asia.pdf">L2/10-440</a></td><td></td><td>Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-10-27), "3. Brahmi Numbers", <i>Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10416.htm">L2/10-416R</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "Action item 125-A20", <i>UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes</i>, Create an alternate proposal for Brahmi numbers.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11357r-brahmi-num-joiner.pdf">L2/11-357R</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4166.pdf">N4166</a></td><td>Glass, Andrew; Sharma, Shriramana (2011-11-02), <i>Proposal to encode 1107F Brahmi Number Joiner</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11353.htm">L2/11-353</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2011-11-30), "D.8", <i>UTC #129 / L2 #226 Minutes</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4253.pdf">N4253 (pdf</a>, <a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4253.doc">doc</a>)</td><td>"M59.16d", <i>Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 59</i>, 2012-09-12</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="6">14.0</td><td rowspan="6">U+11070..11075</td><td rowspan="6">6</td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19402-brahmi-adds.pdf">L2/19-402</a></td><td></td><td>Rajan, Vinodh; Sharma, Shriramana (2019-12-18), <i>Proposal to Encode 6 Characters in the Brahmi Block</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20046-script-adhoc-rept.pdf">L2/20-046</a></td><td></td><td>Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2020-01-10), "7. Brahmi", <i>Recommendations to UTC #162 January 2020 on Script Proposals</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20015.htm">L2/20-015R</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2020-05-14), "D.3 Proposal to Encode 6 Characters in the Brahmi Block", <i>Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20129-tamil-brahmi-virama.pdf">L2/20-129</a></td><td></td><td>Ganesan, Naga (2020-06-01), <i>Comments on L2/20-069: Encoding of Tamil Brahmi Virama (U+11070)</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20169-script-adhoc-rept.pdf">L2/20-169</a></td><td></td><td>Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-07-21), "10. Brahmi", <i>Recommendations to UTC #164 July 2020 on Script Proposals</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20172.htm">L2/20-172</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2020-08-03), "Consensus 164-C13", <i>UTC #164 Minutes</i></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"></td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>