Kannada (Unicode block)

Kannada
Range U+0C80..U+0CFF
(128 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Kannada
Major alphabets Kannada
Tulu
Assigned 89 code points
Unused 39 reserved code points
Source standards ISCII
Unicode version history
1.0.0 80 (+80)
4.0 82 (+2)
5.0 86 (+4)
7.0 87 (+1)
9.0 88 (+1)
11.0 89 (+1)
Note: [1][2]

Kannada is a Unicode block containing characters for the Kannada, Tulu and Kodava languages. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0C82..U+0CCD were a direct copy of the Kannada characters A2-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.

Block

Kannada[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+0C8x
U+0C9x
U+0CAx
U+0CBx ಿ
U+0CCx
U+0CDx
U+0CEx
U+0CFx      
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 Kannada block:

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
1.0.0U+0C82..0C83, 0C85..0C8C, 0C8E..0C90, 0C92..0CA8, 0CAA..0CB3, 0CB5..0CB9, 0CBE..0CC4, 0CC6..0CC8, 0CCA..0CCD, 0CD5..0CD6, 0CDE, 0CE0..0CE1, 0CE6..0CEF80(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”
L2/13-232A, Srinidhi (2013-12-03), Request to change the Unicode chart font for Kannada
L2/17-041A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-01-22), Request to change glyphs of Kannada letters Vocalic L and Vocalic LL and their vowel signs
L2/17-127Anderson, Deborah (2017-04-19), Feedback and Response on L2/17-041: Request to change glyphs of Kannada letters Vocalic L and Vocalic LL and their vowel signs
L2/17-160Sharma, Shriramana (2017-05-07), On the glyph changes for Kannada Vowels Vocalic L/LL
L2/17-153Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "5", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals
L2/17-103Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "D.6.1", UTC #151 Minutes
4.0U+0CBC..0CBD2L2/01-431R[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
L2/03-102Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
L2/03-101.5Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Kannada document], 2003-03-04
5.0U+0CE2..0CE32L2/04-364N2860Everson, Michael (2004-10-22), Proposal to add six characters for Kannada to the BMP of the UCS
U+0CF1..0CF22L2/04-364N2860Everson, Michael (2004-10-22), Proposal to add six characters for Kannada to the BMP of the UCS
L2/09-342[lower-alpha 3]Sharma, Shriramana (2010-10-09), Misrepresentation in Unicode of characters related to the Sanskrit sounds Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya
L2/13-242A, Srinidhi (2013-12-24), Representation of Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya in Kannada
L2/14-066Sharma, Shriramana (2014-02-07), Representation of the Brahmi and Kannada Jihvamuliya/Upadhmaniya Characters in the Code Charts
L2/17-041A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-01-22), Request to change glyphs of Kannada letters Vocalic L and Vocalic LL and their vowel signs
L2/17-127Anderson, Deborah (2017-04-19), Feedback and Response on L2/17-041: Request to change glyphs of Kannada letters Vocalic L and Vocalic LL and their vowel signs
L2/17-160Sharma, Shriramana (2017-05-07), On the glyph changes for Kannada Vowels Vocalic L/LL
L2/17-153Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "5. Kannada", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals
L2/17-103Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "D.6.1", UTC #151 Minutes
7.0U+0C811L2/10-392R2N3964Sharma, Shriramana (2010-10-11), Request to encode South Indian CANDRABINDU-s
9.0U+0C801L2/14-153N4591Rajan, Vinodh (2014-07-18), Proposal to encode Kannada Sign Spacing Candrabindu
L2/14-166A, Srinidhi (2014-07-22), Usage of Kannada Sign Spacing Candrabindu in Vedic texts
L2/14-188Sharma, Shriramana (2014-07-31), Comments on proposal for Kannada Sign Spacing Candrabindu
L2/15-158Sharma, Shriramana (2015-05-18), Attestations for Sama Vedic usage of 0C80 KANNADA SIGN SPACING CANDRABINDU
L2/15-204Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2015-07-25), "5. Kannada", Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals
11.0U+0C841L2/16-031A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2016-01-22), Proposal to encode the Kannada sign SIDDHAM in Unicode
  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
  3. See also L2/09-404

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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