Kannada is a Unicode block containing characters for the Kannada, Sanskrit, Konkani, Sankethi, Havyaka, 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] (PDF)
0123456789ABCDEF
U+0C8x
U+0C9x
U+0CAx
U+0CBxಿ
U+0CCx
U+0CDx
U+0CEx
U+0CFx
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 Kannada block:

VersionFinal code pointsCountUTC IDL2 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..0CEF80UTC/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"
Freytag, Asmus (2005-05-10), Handling "defective" names
Moore, Lisa (2005-08-26), "Consensus 103-C7", UTC #103 Minutes, Create a "Normative Name Alias" property and file in the UCD. Populate the property with names from the sections "Typos" and "Bad or misleading names" from document L2/05-137.
McGowan, Rick (2006-05-12), "Proposed Additional Name Aliases (BETA FEEDBACK) [U+0CDE]", Comments on Public Review Issues (January 31, 2006 - May 12, 2006)
Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), "B.11.10 [U+0CDE]", UTC #107 Minutes
A, Srinidhi (2013-12-03), Request to change the Unicode chart font for Kannada
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-01-26), "3", Recommendations to UTC #138 February 2014 on Script Proposals
A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-01-22), Request to change glyphs of Kannada letters Vocalic L and Vocalic LL and their vowel signs
Anderson, 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
Sharma, Shriramana (2017-05-07), On the glyph changes for Kannada Vowels Vocalic L/LL
Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "5", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "D.6.1", UTC #151 Minutes
4.0U+0CBC..0CBD2McGowan, 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 [Kannada document], 2003-03-04
5.0U+0CE2..0CE32Everson, Michael (2004-10-22), Proposal to add six characters for Kannada to the BMP of the UCS
Whistler, Ken (2005-02-03), "2. Kannada additions", WG2 Consent Docket, Part 2: Unicode 5.0 Issues
Moore, Lisa (2005-05-16), "WG2 - Unicode 5.0 Consent Docket (B.1.16)", UTC #102 Minutes
Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), "C.16", UTC #105 Minutes
U+0CF1..0CF22Everson, Michael (2004-10-22), Proposal to add six characters for Kannada to the BMP of the UCS
Whistler, Ken (2005-02-03), "2. Kannada additions", WG2 Consent Docket, Part 2: Unicode 5.0 Issues
Moore, Lisa (2005-05-16), "WG2 - Unicode 5.0 Consent Docket (B.1.16)", UTC #102 Minutes
Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), "C.16", UTC #105 Minutes
Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-05-05), "1", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "Consensus 123-C29", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes, Change the general category and script property of U+0CF1 KANNADA SIGN JIHVAMULIYA and U+0CF2 KANNADA SIGN UPADHMANIYA from "GC=So" to "Lo" and from "Script=Common" to "Kannada" for Unicode 6.0.
Sharma, Shriramana (2010-10-09), Misrepresentation in Unicode of characters related to the Sanskrit sounds Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya
A, Srinidhi (2013-12-24), Representation of Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya in Kannada
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-01-26), "2", Recommendations to UTC #138 February 2014 on Script Proposals
Sharma, Shriramana (2014-02-07), Representation of the Brahmi and Kannada Jihvamuliya/Upadhmaniya Characters in the Code Charts
A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-01-22), Request to change glyphs of Kannada letters Vocalic L and Vocalic LL and their vowel signs
Anderson, 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
Sharma, Shriramana (2017-05-07), On the glyph changes for Kannada Vowels Vocalic L/LL
Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "5. Kannada", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "D.6.1", UTC #151 Minutes
7.0U+0C811Sharma, Shriramana (2010-10-11), Request to encode South Indian CANDRABINDU-s
Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-10-27), "5. South Indian Candrabindus", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "South Indian candrabindu-s (D.8)", UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes
"11.2.4 South Indian CANDRABINDU-s", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
9.0U+0C801Rajan, Vinodh (2014-07-18), Proposal to encode Kannada Sign Spacing Candrabindu
A, Srinidhi (2014-07-22), Usage of Kannada Sign Spacing Candrabindu in Vedic texts
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-07-28), "3", Recommendations to UTC #140 August 2014 on Script Proposals
Sharma, Shriramana (2014-07-31), Comments on proposal for Kannada Sign Spacing Candrabindu
Moore, Lisa (2014-10-17), "Kannada Spacing Candrabindu (D.6)", UTC #140 Minutes
Sharma, Shriramana (2015-05-18), Attestations for Sama Vedic usage of 0C80 KANNADA SIGN SPACING CANDRABINDU
Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2015-07-25), "5. Kannada", Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), "M63.11p", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63
11.0U+0C841A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2016-01-22), Proposal to encode the Kannada sign SIDDHAM in Unicode
Moore, Lisa (2016-02-01), "D.2.2", UTC #146 Minutes
14.0U+0CDD1A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2021-01-07), Proposal to encode Kannada sign Nakaara Pollu
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2021-01-14), "12 Kannada", Recommendations to UTC #166 January 2021 on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2021-01-27), "Consensus 166-C28", UTC #166 Minutes
15.0U+0CF31Basty, Shashank Shenoy (2020-08-24), Preliminary Proposal to Encode Kannada Sign Combining Anusvara Right Top
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-10-01), "11. Kannada", Recommendations to UTC #165 October 2020 on Script Proposals
Basty, Shashank Shenoy (2021-05-10), Proposal to Encode Kannada Sign Combining Anusvara Above Right
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Liang, Hai (2021-07-26), "9. Kannada", Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals
Cummings, Craig (2021-08-03), "Consensus 168-C24", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 168
17.0U+0CDC1A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2021-12-23), Proposal to encode ARCHAIC SHRII in Kannada and Telugu
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2022-01-22), "9 Kannada and Telugu", Recommendations to UTC #170 January 2022 on Script Proposals
Constable, Peter (2022-04-21), "D.1 9 Kannada and Telugu", UTC #170 Minutes
Constable, Peter (2024-04-29), "B.1.1", UTC #179 Minutes