Mahajani (Unicode block)

Summary

Mahajani is a Unicode block containing characters historically used for writing Punjabi and Marwari.[3]

Mahajani
RangeU+11150..U+1117F
(48 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsMahajani
Assigned39 code points
Unused9 reserved code points
Unicode version history
7.0 (2014)39 (+39)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]
Mahajani[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+1115x 𑅐 𑅑 𑅒 𑅓 𑅔 𑅕 𑅖 𑅗 𑅘 𑅙 𑅚 𑅛 𑅜 𑅝 𑅞 𑅟
U+1116x 𑅠 𑅡 𑅢 𑅣 𑅤 𑅥 𑅦 𑅧 𑅨 𑅩 𑅪 𑅫 𑅬 𑅭 𑅮 𑅯
U+1117x 𑅰 𑅱 𑅲 𑅳 𑅴 𑅵 𑅶
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History edit

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

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
7.0 U+11150..11176 39 L2/10-377 N3930 Pandey, Anshuman (2010-10-06), Preliminary proposal to encode Mahajani in ISO/IEC 10646
L2/10-440 Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-10-27), "7. Mahajani", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
L2/11-274 N4126 Pandey, Anshuman (2011-07-12), Proposal to Encode the Mahajani Script in ISO/IEC 10646
L2/11-298 Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2011-07-27), "2. Mahajani", South Asian subcommittee report
L2/11-261R2 Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), "D.3", UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes
L2/11-330 N4181 Anderson, Deborah (2011-11-04), Proposed Additions to ISO/IEC 10646
N4253 (pdf, doc) "M59.08", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 59, 2012-09-12
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References edit

  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.
  3. ^ Pandey, Anshuman (2011-07-12). "N4126: Proposal to Encode the Mahajani Script in ISO/IEC 10646" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.