Grantha (Unicode block)
| Grantha | |
|---|---|
| Range |
U+11300..U+1137F (128 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts |
Grantha (85 char.) Inherited (1 char.) |
| Major alphabets | Sanskrit Manipravalam |
| Assigned | 86 code points |
| Unused | 42 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 7.0 | 83 (+83) |
| 8.0 | 85 (+2) |
| 11.0 | 86 (+1) |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Grantha is a Unicode block containing the ancient Grantha script characters of 6th to 19th century Tamil Nadu and Kerala for writing Sanskrit and Manipravalam.
Block
| Grantha[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+1130x | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | |||
| U+1131x | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ||
| U+1132x | ๐ | ๐ก | ๐ข | ๐ฃ | ๐ค | ๐ฅ | ๐ฆ | ๐ง | ๐จ | ๐ช | ๐ซ | ๐ฌ | ๐ญ | ๐ฎ | ๐ฏ | |
| U+1133x | ๐ฐ | ๐ฒ | ๐ณ | ๐ต | ๐ถ | ๐ท | ๐ธ | ๐น | ๐ป | ๐ผ | ๐ฝ | ๐พ | ๐ฟ | |||
| U+1134x | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ||||||
| U+1135x | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | |||||||||||
| U+1136x | ๐ | ๐ก | ๐ข | ๐ฃ | ๐ฆ | ๐ง | ๐จ | ๐ฉ | ๐ช | ๐ซ | ๐ฌ | |||||
| U+1137x | ๐ฐ | ๐ฑ | ๐ฒ | ๐ณ | ๐ด | |||||||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Grantha block:
| Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | U+11301..11303, 11305..1130C, 1130F..11310, 11313..11328, 1132A..11330, 11332..11333, 11335..11339, 1133D..11344, 11347..11348, 1134B..1134C, 11360..11363 | 65 | L2/09-141R | Ganesan, Naga (2009-04-22), Proposal to Encode the Grantha Script in the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) of ISO/IEC 10646 | |
| L2/09-345 | Ganesan, Naga (2009-04-22), Proposal to encode the Grantha Script in the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) of ISO/IEC 10646 | ||||
| L2/09-206 | Dias, Gihan (2009-05-09), Re: Grantha Proposal | ||||
| L2/09-210 | Lata, Swaran (2009-05-11), Encoding of Grantha Script in the Unicode Standard | ||||
| L2/09-258 | Sharma, Shriramana (2009-08-02), Re: Grantha Proposal | ||||
| L2/09-277 | Karlsson, Kent (2009-08-06), Comments on L2/09โ141, Proposal to Encode the Grantha Scriptโฆ | ||||
| L2/09-316 | Sharma, Shriramana (2009-08-15), Comments on Mr Ganesan's Grantha Proposal | ||||
| L2/09-324 | Sharma, Shriramana (2009-09-26), Comments on Kent Karlssonโs document L2/09-277 | ||||
| L2/09-380 | Lata, Swaran (2009-10-09), Letter from Swaran Lata concerning Grantha Proposal | ||||
| L2/09-373 | Sharma, Shriramana (2009-10-11), Why jihvamuliya and upadhmaniya characters are not proposed for Grantha | ||||
| L2/09-372 | Sharma, Shriramana (2009-10-24), Proposal to encode the Grantha script in Unicode | ||||
| L2/09-405 | Ganesan, Naga (2009-10-31), Comment on L2/09-372 (Number of Viramas in closely related Malayalam and Grantha scripts) | ||||
| L2/10-048 | Kulkarni, M. D. (2010-01-27), Proposal to encode the Grantha script in the BMP of the UCS | ||||
| L2/10-053 | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-01-28), Summary and Assessment of Grantha Proposals | ||||
| L2/10-071 | McGowan, Rick; Anderson, Deborah (2010-02-17), Revised Chart and Names List for Grantha based on L2/10-053 | ||||
| L2/10-085 | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-03-12), Feedback to Dr Andersonโs Grantha Summary dt 2010-Jan-28 | ||||
| L2/10-259 | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-07-27), Follow-up #2 to my Grantha proposal L2/09-372 | ||||
| L2/10-283 | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-08-03), Request from scholars of the Grantha user community #2 | ||||
| L2/10-284 | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-08-03), Comments on L2/10-194 | ||||
| L2/10-314 | Lata, Swaran (2010-08-10), Letter regarding Grantha encoding | ||||
| L2/10-265R | McGowan, Rick; Anderson, Deborah (2010-08-26), Revised Chart and Names List for Grantha | ||||
| L2/10-341 | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-09-14), Encoding sub-base Grantha vowel signs for Vocalic L and LL | ||||
| L2/10-409 | Jain, Manoj (2010-10-18), Unicode Standard for Grantha Script, Summary of the Meeting Sept 6th, New Delhi | ||||
| L2/10-426 | Jain, Manoj (2010-10-18), Proposal to encode the Grantha script in Unicode | ||||
| L2/10-457 | Nakkeeran, P. R. (2010-11-01), Feedback on Grantha Unicode Committee meeting minutes - reg. | ||||
| L2/10-459 | Kaviarasan, Va.Mu.Se. (2010-11-01), Response to L2/10-426 and L2/10-447 and any other proposals requesting to add characters to represent Tamil or Tamil Block | ||||
| L2/10-464 | Karunanidhi, M. (2010-11-06), Letter from Gov't of Tamil Nadu re Grantha | ||||
| L2/10-472 | Palaniappan, Sudalaimuthu (2010-11-06), Letter to Lisa Moore re Grantha Encoding | ||||
| L2/11-351 | Constable, Peter (2010-11-29), E-mail regarding Grantha sub-base vocalic L/LL and Vedic Tone Asterisk Above | ||||
| L2/11-002 | Kaviarasan, Va.Mu.Se. (2011-01-07), Response to Govt.of India Proposal L2/10-426 | ||||
| L2/11-006 | Annamalai, E. (2011-01-14), My views on Encoding Grantha in Unicode | ||||
| L2/11-010 | Kaviarasan, Va.Mu.Se. (2011-01-18), Press release from Gov't Tamil Nadu re Grantha | ||||
| L2/11-011 | Ganesan, N. (2011-01-21), Diacritic Marks for Short e & o Vowels (Dravidian and Vedic) in Devanagari (North India) and Grantha (South India) | ||||
| L2/11-024 | Ganesan, N. (2011-01-21), Letter from Prof. S. Raju regarding the addition of 5 Dravidian characters to Grantha block in Unicode | ||||
| L2/11-029 | Logasundaram, N. D. (2011-01-25), Views, opinions and suggestions on Proposals submitted on on Grantham, an historic INDIC Script into SMP by learned individuals & Institutions | ||||
| L2/11-009 | Shanker, R. (2011-01-27), Letter to Mark Davis from Gov't of India | ||||
| L2/11-027 | Sundaravelu, J. (2011-01-30), Opposition to Unification of Grantham and Tamil Scripts in the Unicode | ||||
| L2/11-025 | Ganesan, N. (2011-01-31), Letter from Dr.R.Nagaswamy re Grantha | ||||
| L2/11-026 | Manivannan, Mani (2011-01-31), INFITT Working Group comments on the Grantha encoding proposals | ||||
| L2/11-028 | Dias, Gihan (2011-01-31), Position of the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka on the encoding of the Grantha Script | ||||
| L2/11-034 | Ganesan, N. (2011-02-01), Dravidian Letters in Tamil Grantha Script Some Notes in Their History of Use | ||||
| L2/11-048 | Fernando, Albert (2011-02-01), Letter to Lisa Moore re Grantha Proposals L2/10-426 and L2/10-447 | ||||
| L2/11-046 | McGowan, Rick; Anderson, Deborah (2011-02-02), Grantha Compromise Chart | ||||
| L2/11-058 | Arockiasamy, M. (2011-02-03), An Appeal to the Unicode Tech. Committee | ||||
| L2/11-055 | Eraiyarasan, B. (2011-02-06), Comments on Tamil Unicode and Grantham Proposals | ||||
| L2/11-056 | Uthayasoorian, K. (2011-02-06), Inclusion of Tamil Characters in Proposed Grantham Block | ||||
| L2/11-060 | Ramakrishnan, T. (2011-02-07), Requesting the UTC to Reject Proposals to Mix Tamil and Grantha | ||||
| L2/11-063 | Muthukumarasamy, Arivoli (2011-02-08), Comments of the Grantha Proposal L2/10-426 | ||||
| L2/11-073 | Anderson, Deborah; Sharma, Shriramana (2011-02-10), Two Outstanding Indic-related Topics from November 2010 UTC | ||||
| L2/11-075 | Logasundaram, N. D. (2011-02-14), More views, opinions and suggestions as feedback on proposal of encoding Grantham | ||||
| L2/11-186 | Ganesan, N. (2011-02-18), Dravidian letters in Grantha block in Unicode - regarding | ||||
| L2/11-182 | Shanker, N. Ravi (2011-05-09), Letter to Mark Davis from N. Ravi Shanker, Gov't of India | ||||
| L2/11-251 | Letter from Gov't of India to Mark Davis, May 10, 2011, re Grantha encoding, 2011-05-09 | ||||
| L2/11-200 | McGowan, Rick; Anderson, Deborah (2011-05-16), Grantha Compromise Chart | ||||
| L2/11-284R | N4135 | Proposal to encode the Grantha script [summary form only], 2011-07-22 | |||
| L2/11-326 | Palaniappan, S. (2011-08-04), Comment on UTC document L2/11-186 | ||||
| L2/11-330 | N4181 | Anderson, Deborah (2011-11-04), Proposed Additions to ISO/IEC 10646 | |||
| L2/12-054 | Sachithananthan, Maravanpulavu (2012-01-12), Letter regarding Grantha encoding | ||||
| L2/12-126 | Logasundaram, N. D. (2012-04-25), Encoding of Grantham in SMP | ||||
| L2/12-151 | Ganesan, Naga (2012-05-01), Brief Comments on UTC register documents (May 2012) on Grantha script encoding | ||||
| L2/12-190 | Logasundaram, N. D. (2012-05-08), Clarification of Grantham comments | ||||
| L2/13-065 | Logasundaram, L. D. (2013-04-14), The Sanskrit language must not be cloned inside the digital world | ||||
| L2/13-084 | Ganesan, Naga (2013-04-29), Comment on L2/13-065: Grantha characters from other Indic blocks such as Devanagari, Tamil, Bengali are NOT the solution | ||||
| L2/14-218 | Sharma, Shriramana (2014-09-11), Unification of Tamil and Grantha numerals | ||||
| U+1133C | 1 | L2/15-256 | N4840 | Hosken, Martin (2015-10-26), Proposal to Add Tamil Nukta Character | |
| L2/15-254 | Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), UTC #145 Minutes | ||||
| U+1134D | 1 | L2/09-258 | Sharma, Shriramana (2009-08-02), Re: Grantha Proposal | ||
| L2/09-316 | Sharma, Shriramana (2009-08-15), Comments on Mr Ganesan's Grantha Proposal | ||||
| L2/09-375 | Sharma, Shriramana (2009-10-06), Further clarification on Grantha virama-ligatures | ||||
| L2/10-154 | Ganesan, Naga (2010-05-01), Proposal to encode Grantha Chillu marker sign in Unicode/ISO 10646 | ||||
| L2/10-194 | Ganesan, Naga (2010-05-10), Grantha Chillu Marker at U+1134E in Unicode SMP, Comment on Section 8.d, L2/10-167 | ||||
| L2/10-232 | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-06-11), Official submission of a request regarding the Grantha Chillu Marker | ||||
| L2/10-233 | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-06-20), Request from scholars of the Grantha user community | ||||
| L2/10-267 | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-07-20), Comments on L2/09-345, 10-062 and 10-154 | ||||
| L2/10-259 | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-07-27), Follow-up #2 to my Grantha proposal L2/09-372 | ||||
| L2/10-285 | Shastri, Krishnamurti (2010-07-30), Comments on Grantha encoding | ||||
| L2/10-284 | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-08-03), Comments on L2/10-194 | ||||
| L2/10-297 | Ganesan, Naga (2010-08-06), Comment on L2/10-285: Handwritten styles in Tamil, Grantha, and English scripts - Touching vowel signs and viramas | ||||
| L2/10-303 | Ganesan, Naga (2010-08-09), Proposal for a Grantha Character Name - Ligating Prepausal Virama at U+1134F | ||||
| L2/10-405 | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-09-17), On the GC of 1134D Grantha Sign Virama | ||||
| L2/10-406 | Ganesan, T. (2010-10-08), Letter regarding Grantha vowelless consonants | ||||
| L2/10-404 | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-10-10), Finalizing the Grantha virama model | ||||
| L2/10-409 | Jain, Manoj (2010-10-18), Unicode Standard for Grantha Script, Summary of the Meeting Sept 6th, New Delhi | ||||
| L2/10-414 | Nachimuthu, Krishnaswamy (2010-10-18), Letter regarding Grantha virama | ||||
| L2/10-424 | Niklas, Ulrike (2010-10-21), Letter regarding Prepausal Virama (Grantha) | ||||
| L2/10-423 | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-10-22), Response to L2/10-414 on the GRANTHA "PREPAUSAL" VIRAMA | ||||
| L2/10-430 | Ganesan, N. (2010-10-26), Comment on L2/10-406: Grantha Prepausal Ligated Virama | ||||
| L2/10-447 | Ganesan, N. (2010-10-29), Consonant Clusters that need 3 sequences in Unicode Encoding in Grantha script | ||||
| L2/10-332 | Sharma, Shriramana (2012-08-21), Comments on L2/09-405, 10-297, -298 and -303 | ||||
| L2/14-002 | Sharma, Shriramana (2013-11-10), Finalizing the Grantha virama model | ||||
| L2/14-020 | Ganesan, Naga (2014-01-20), Plain-text Ligating Virama Representation for Grantha script | ||||
| L2/14-097 | Ganesan, Naga (2014-04-28), ZWJ Joiner for Chillu Consonants of Grantha Script | ||||
| L2/14-110 | Sharma, Shriramana (2014-05-02), Comments on L2/14-097 re using ZWJ for Grantha โchillusโ | ||||
| L2/14-162 | Ganesan, Naga (2014-07-21), Control Characters (Joiners ZWNJ and ZWJ) in the Grantha Visible Virama and Chillu Consonants | ||||
| L2/14-164 | Ganesan, Naga (2014-07-22), Chillu examples | ||||
| L2/14-170 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurenศiu (2014-07-28), Recommendations to UTC #140 August 2014 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/14-279 | Ganesan, Naga (2014-10-14), ZWJ for Grantha pre-pausal half-consonants (chillus) | ||||
| L2/14-291 | Sharma, Shriramana (2014-10-29), Handling variation in vowelless consonant forms in Grantha | ||||
| L2/15-045 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew (2015-01-30), Recommendations to UTC #142 February 2015 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/15-067 | Ganesan, Naga (2015-02-03), Revised Proposal for Plaintext Grantha Chillu Representation | ||||
| U+11357[lower-alpha 2] | 1 | L2/09-374 | Sharma, Shriramana (2009-10-25), Request for encoding 11355 GRANTHA LENGTH MARK | ||
| L2/10-329 | Sharma, Shriramana (2012-08-21), Follow-up to L2/09-374 | ||||
| U+1135D[lower-alpha 3] | 1 | L2/10-331 | N4136 | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-08-21), Request to encode 1135D GRANTHA SIGN PLUTA | |
| U+1135E..1135F, 11366..1136C, 11370..11374[lower-alpha 4] | 14 | L2/10-235 | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-07-09), Proposal to encode Vedic characters for the Grantha script | ||
| L2/10-286 | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-08-04), Comments on L2/10-274 | ||||
| 8.0 | U+11300 | 1 | L2/13-061 | N4432 | Sharma, Shriramana (2013-03-04), Proposal to encode 1137D Grantha Sign Combining Anusvara Above |
| L2/13-124 | Kumar, Rajendra (2013-05-10), Letter from Gov't of India to Lisa Moore re recent documents | ||||
| L2/13-179 | N4479 | Sharma, Shriramana (2013-09-04), Request to reallocate one character within the Grantha block | |||
| U+11350[lower-alpha 5] | 1 | L2/10-062 | Ganesan, Naga (2010-02-02), A note on Grantha OM sign (Comment on L2/10-053) | ||
| L2/10-267 | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-07-20), Comments on L2/09-345, 10-062 and 10-154 | ||||
| L2/10-263 | Rajan, Vinodh (2010-07-28), Comments on Grantha OM | ||||
| L2/10-274 | Ganesan, Naga (2010-08-02), Usage Evidence for Grantha OM glyph | ||||
| L2/10-286 | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-08-04), Comments on L2/10-274 | ||||
| L2/10-328 | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-08-10), Follow-up to L2/10-267 | ||||
| L2/13-062 | N4431 | Sharma, Shriramana (2013-04-10), Proposal to encode 11350 GRANTHA OM | |||
| L2/13-081 | Ganesan, Naga (2013-04-29), Comment on L2/13-062: Grantha OM in U+11350 code point | ||||
| L2/13-124 | Kumar, Rajendra (2013-05-10), Letter from Gov't of India to Lisa Moore re recent documents | ||||
| 11.0 | U+1133B | 1 | L2/15-256 | N4840 | Hosken, Martin (2015-10-26), Proposal to Add Tamil Nukta Character |
| L2/15-254 | Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), "D.2.1", UTC #145 Minutes | ||||
| L2/16-035 | Moore, Lisa (2016-01-21), Comments from Vasu Renganathan re Tamil Nukta | ||||
| L2/16-030 | Elangovan, Naga; Ramasamy, Krishnan; Logasundaram, N. D. (2016-01-22), Comments on the โProposal to Add Tamil Nukta Character-L2/15-256โ | ||||
| L2/16-058 | Sharma, Shriramana (2016-01-28), On the usage of nuktas in Tamil | ||||
| L2/16-084 | Ganesan, N. (2016-04-20), Proposal to Encode Single-dot Sign at U+1133B Comment on M. Hoskenโs Badaga dot sign Proposal (L2/15-256) | ||||
| L2/16-115 | Sharma, Shriramana (2016-05-02), Comments on L2/16-084 "Proposal to encode single dot sign at 1133B" | ||||
| L2/16-121 | Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), "D.9 Badaga dot sign", UTC #147 Minutes | ||||
| L2/16-211 | Ganesan, N. (2016-07-26), Character Name of U+1133B | ||||
| L2/16-224 | Sharma, Shriramana (2016-08-02), Request to rename 1133B to GRANTHA SIGN ONE-DOT NUKTA | ||||
| L2/16-203 | Moore, Lisa (2016-08-18), "D.13", UTC #148 Minutes | ||||
| L2/17-290 | Ramachandran, Thiru T. K. (2017-07-28), Letter from Thiru T.K.Ramahandran to Lisa Moore (re Combining Bindu) | ||||
| L2/17-288 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Constable, Peter; Suignard, Michel; Hai, Liang (2017-08-02), "9. From Srinidhi A and Sridatta A", Ad Hoc Recommendations on PRI 352 and PRI 353 | ||||
| L2/17-302 | Moore, Lisa (2017-08-17), Letter to T.K.Ramahandran Re: U+1133B COMBINING BINDU BELOW | ||||
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References
- โ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
- โ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
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