Bengali (Unicode block)

Bengali
Range U+0980..U+09FF
(128 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Bengali
Major alphabets Bengali
Assamese
Assigned 96 code points
Unused 32 reserved code points
Source standards ISCII
Unicode version history
1.0.0 89 (+89)
4.0 90 (+1)
4.1 91 (+1)
5.2 92 (+1)
7.0 93 (+1)
10.0 95 (+2)
11.0 96 (+1)

Note: [1][2]

Bengali Unicode block contains characters for the Bengali, Assamese, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Daphla, Garo, Hallam, Khasi, Mizo, Munda, Naga, Riang, and Santali languages. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0981..U+09CD were a direct copy of the Bengali characters A1-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard, as well as several Assamese ISCII characters in the U+09F0 column. The Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on ISCII encodings.

Block

Bengali[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+098x
U+099x
U+09Ax
U+09Bx ি
U+09Cx
U+09Dx
U+09Ex
U+09Fx
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 11.0
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 Bengali block:

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
1.0.0U+0981..0983, 0985..098C, 098F..0990, 0993..09A8, 09AA..09B0, 09B2, 09B6..09B9, 09BC, 09BE..09C4, 09C7..09C8, 09CB..09CD, 09D7, 09DC..09DD, 09DF..09E3, 09E6..09FA89(to be determined)
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”
L2/03-113Everson, Michael (2003-03-05), Conjuncts: making sure we are right
4.0U+09BD1L2/01-431R[lower-alpha 2]McGowan, Rick (2001-11-08), Actions for UTC and Editorial Committee in response to L2/01-430R
L2/02-117N2425McGowan, Rick (2002-03-21), Additional Characters for Indic Scripts
L2/03-084Jain, Manoj (2003-03-03), Proposed changes in the Unicode Standards for Indic Scripts - Bengali
L2/03-102Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
L2/03-101.1Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Bengali document], 2003-03-04
L2/03-104Jain, Manoj (2003-03-04), Sample Text for Bengali Sign Avagraha
L2/04-102Pavanaja, U. B. (2004-02-10), Bug in Kannada collation
L2/04-432Wissink, Cathy (2004-12-31), Indic collation: action items 99-20 and 99-29
4.1U+09CE1L2/00-303N2261Incorporation of Bangla (Bengali) Coded Character in ISO/IEC 10646-1, 2000-08-23
L2/00-304N2261-1Proposal Summary Form for character U+09BA, KHANDATA, 2000-08-23
L2/03-084Jain, Manoj (2003-03-03), Proposed changes in the Unicode Standards for Indic Scripts - Bengali
L2/03-102Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
L2/03-101.1Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Bengali document], 2003-03-04
L2/04-060Sengupta, Gautam (2004-02-01), Encoding Bangla Khanda-Ta With Ta+Virama
L2/04-062Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Encoding Bangla Khanda-Ta With Ta+Virama
L2/04-102Pavanaja, U. B. (2004-02-10), Bug in Kannada collation
L2/04-262N2810Constable, Peter (2004-02-17), Encoding of Bengali Khanda Ta in Unicode (PRI #30 document)
L2/04-192N2811Sengupta, Gautam (2004-06-07), Feedback on PR-30: Encoding of Bangla Khanda Ta in Unicode
L2/04-233N2812Vikas, Om (2004-06-10), Letter to Mark Davis re Bengali Khanda Ta
L2/04-252N2813Constable, Peter (2004-06-15), Review of Bengali Khanda Ta and PRI-30 Feedback
L2/04-264N2809Constable, Peter (2004-06-17), Proposal to encode Bengali Khanda Ta in the UCS
L2/04-432Wissink, Cathy (2004-12-31), Indic collation: action items 99-20 and 99-29
5.2U+09FB1L2/07-192N3311Pandey, Anshuman (2007-05-21), Proposal to Encode the Ganda Currency Mark for Bengali in the BMP of the UCS
7.0U+09801L2/11-359N4157Pandey, Anshuman (2011-10-21), Proposal to Encode the Sign Anji for Bengali
L2/11-408Lata, Swaran (2011-10-27), Letter from Swaran Lata, Gov't of India, re proposals
L2/12-079Lata, Swaran (2012-02-07), Inputs of Govt. of India on various documents
L2/12-121N4157Pandey, Anshuman (2012-04-23), Proposal to Encode the Sign ANJI for Bengali
L2/12-184Lata, Swaran (2012-05-07), GOI Feedback on the various Indic related documents
L2/12-277Lata, Swaran (2012-07-26), GOI Feedback on the various Indic related document submitted to UTC
10.0U+09FC1L2/15-204Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2015-07-25), "3. Bengali", Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals
L2/15-161Sharma, Shriramana (2015-07-31), Proposal to encode 09CF BENGALI LETTER VEDIC ANUSVARA
U+09FD1L2/15-172RA, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2015-07-09), Proposal to Encode an Abbreviation Sign for Bengali
L2/15-204Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2015-07-25), "3. Bengali", Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals
11.0U+09FE1L2/16-322N4808A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2016-11-01), Proposal to encode the SANDHI MARK for Bengali
L2/17-037Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa; Hai, Liang; Ishida, Richard; Misra, Karan; McGowan, Rick (2017-01-21), "4. Bengali", Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals
L2/17-130Anderson, Deborah (2017-04-19), Comments on L2/16-322 and L2/16-383, Sandhi marks for Bengali and Newa
L2/17-153Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "4. Bengali and Newa", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals
L2/17-103Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "D.3 Sandhi Mark", UTC #151 Minutes
  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 character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
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