Gujarati is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Gujarati language. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0A81..U+0AD0 were a direct copy of the Gujarati characters A1-F0 from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.

Block

Gujarati[1][2] (PDF)
0123456789ABCDEF
U+0A8x
U+0A9x
U+0AAx
U+0ABxિ
U+0ACx
U+0ADx
U+0AEx
U+0AFx૿
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 17.0 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 Gujarati block:

VersionFinal code pointsCountUTC IDL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
1.0.0U+0A81..0A83, 0A85..0A8B, 0A8F..0A90, 0A93..0AA8, 0AAA..0AB0, 0AB2..0AB3, 0AB5..0AB9, 0ABC..0AC5, 0AC7..0AC8, 0ACB..0ACD, 0AD0, 0AE0, 0AE6..0AEF75UTC/1991-056Whistler, Ken, Indic Charts: Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam
UTC/1991-057Whistler, Ken, Indic names list
Whistler, Ken (1991-03-27), "III. L. Walk In proposals", Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple
Vikas, Om (2001-07-26), Letter from the Government from India on "Draft for Unicode Standard for Indian Scripts"
Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0, 2001-08-02
McGowan, Rick (2001-08-08), Draft UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
McGowan, Rick (2001-11-20), UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
1.1U+0A8D, 0A91, 0AC93(to be determined)
4.0U+0A8C, 0AE1..0AE3, 0AF15McGowan, Rick (2001-11-08), Actions for UTC and Editorial Committee in response to L2/01-430R
Moore, Lisa (2001-12-12), "Consensus 89-C19", Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting in Mountain View, November 6-9, 2001, Accept the twelve Indic characters with names and coding positions as documented in L2/01-431R
McGowan, Rick (2002-03-21), Additional Characters for Indic Scripts
Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Gujarati document], 2003-03-04
Pandey, Anshuman (2009-10-07), Proposal to Deprecate GUJARATI RUPEE SIGN
Moore, Lisa (2010-02-09), "Action item 122-A73", UTC #122 / L2 #219 Minutes, Add an annotation to U+0AF1 indicating the preferred spelling for the Rupee sign, in a future version of the standard.
6.1U+0AF01Cooper, M. N., Unicode Representation of Indian Scripts
Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Gujarati document], 2003-03-04
Pandey, Anshuman (2009-10-02), Proposal to Encode An Abbreviation Sign for Gujarati
Anderson, Deborah (2010-02-05), "T.8", Document requesting new additions to 10646
Moore, Lisa (2010-02-09), "Consensus 122-C25", UTC #122 / L2 #219 Minutes
, )"M56.08e", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 56, 2010-09-24
8.0U+0AF91Rajan, Vinodh (2013-04-23), Proposal to encode Gujarati Sign Triple Nukta
Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-04-26), "9", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
Rajan, Vinodh (2013-07-16), Proposal to encode Gujarati Letter ZHA
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-07-25), "Gujarati", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2013-07-29), "D.4", UTC #136 Minutes
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.04a", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA
10.0U+0AFA..0AFF6Pandey, Anshuman (2014-05-02), Proposal to Encode Gujarati Signs for the Transliteration of Arabic
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Pandey, Anshuman; Glass, Andrew (2015-05-03), "4. Gujarati", Recommendations to UTC #143 May 2015 on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2015-05-12), "D.7.1", UTC #143 Minutes
Pandey, Anshuman (2015-06-02), Revised Proposal to Encode Gujarati Signs for the Transliteration of Arabic

External links

  • https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_to_use_Unicode_in_creating_Gujarati_script