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Gurmukhi (Unicode block)
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<p>Gurmukhi is a <a href="/facts/Unicode_block/0RrzJWhE">Unicode block</a> containing characters for the <a href="/facts/Punjabi_language/Dps9vRRe">Punjabi language</a>, in the <a href="/facts/Gurmukhi_script/u6Nt0z14">Gurmukhi script</a>. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0A02..U+0A4C were a direct copy of the Gurmukhi characters A2-EC from the 1988 ISCII standard. The <a href="/facts/Devanagari_(Unicode_block)/hI2G9hL8">Devanagari</a>, <a href="/facts/Bengali_(Unicode_block)/Fh49rNog">Bengali</a>, <a href="/facts/Gujarati_(Unicode_block)/p2JPvuN0">Gujarati</a>, <a href="/facts/Oriya_(Unicode_block)/V9J6SerQ">Oriya</a>, <a href="/facts/Tamil_(Unicode_block)/pdsDTWQS">Tamil</a>, <a href="/facts/Telugu_(Unicode_block)/SI0UVlWI">Telugu</a>, <a href="/facts/Kannada_(Unicode_block)/oPUxG6uF">Kannada</a>, and <a href="/facts/Malayalam_(Unicode_block)/ae1kVPlv">Malayalam</a> blocks were similarly all based on their <a href="/facts/ISCII/PY17u4VI">ISCII</a> encodings. </p>