Sinhala (Unicode block)

Sinhala
Range U+0D80..U+0DFF
(128 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Sinhala
Major alphabets Sinhala
Pali
Sanskrit
Assigned 90 code points
Unused 38 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.0 80 (+80)
7.0 90 (+10)
Note: [1][2]

Sinhala is a Unicode block containing characters for the Sinhala and Pali languages of Sri Lanka, and is also used for writing Sanskrit in Sri Lanka. The Sinhala allocation is loosely based on the ISCII standard, except that Sinhala contains extra prenasalized consonant letters, leading to inconsistencies with other ISCII-Unicode script allocations.

Block

Sinhala[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+0D8x ං ඃ අ ආ ඇ ඈ ඉ ඊ උ ඌ ඍ ඎ ඏ
U+0D9x ඐ එ ඒ ඓ ඔ ඕ ඖ ක ඛ ග ඝ ඞ ඟ
U+0DAx ච ඡ ජ ඣ ඤ ඥ ඦ ට ඨ ඩ ඪ ණ ඬ ත ථ ද
U+0DBx ධ න ඳ ප ඵ බ භ ම ඹ ය ර ල
U+0DCx ව ශ ෂ ස හ ළ ෆ ් ා
U+0DDx ැ ෑ ි ී ු ූ ෘ ෙ ේ ෛ ො ෝ ෞ ෟ
U+0DEx ෦ ෧ ෨ ෩ ෪ ෫ ෬ ෭ ෮ ෯
U+0DFx ෲ ෳ ෴
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 Sinhala block:

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
3.0U+0D82..0D83, 0D85..0D96, 0D9A..0DB1, 0DB3..0DBB, 0DBD, 0DC0..0DC6, 0DCA, 0DCF..0DD4, 0DD6, 0DD8..0DDF, 0DF2..0DF480(to be determined)
7.0U+0DE6..0DEF10L2/08-007Inclusion of archaic Sinhala numerals in the Sinhala character code range, 2008-01-07
L2/08-068Dias, Gihan (2008-01-28), Archaic Sinhala Numerals
L2/08-105Observations on the Encoding of Archaic Sinhala Numerals in Unicode/UCS, 2008-02-05
L2/10-165Dias, Gihan (2010-05-03), Preliminary Proposal to Encode Sinhala Digits and Numerals
L2/10-312Dias, Gihan (2010-08-10), Proposal to Encode Sinhala Archaic Numerals and Numbers
L2/10-337N3888Proposal to include Sinhala Numerals to the BMP and SMP of the UCS, 2010-08-19
N3888-ASenaweera, L. N. (2010-09-10), Sri Lanka's proposal on Sinhala Numerals for inclusion in Information Technology - Universal Multiple Octet Coded Character Set, ISO/IEC 10646 : 2003
N3888-BUnicode Character Properties of Sinhala Lith Illakkam (Sinhala Astrological Digits) and Sinhala Illakkam or Sinhala Archaic Numbers
L2/10-433Wijayawardhana, Harsha; et al. (2010-10-23), RE: Background information on the use of Sinhala Numerals (L2/10-337)
L2/10-416RMoore, Lisa (2010-11-09), UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes
  1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

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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