Oriya is a Unicode block containing characters for the Odia, Khondi and Santali languages of the state of Odisha in India. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0B01..U+0B4D were a direct copy of the Odia characters A1-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.

Odia script combines symbols into hundreds of consonant ligatures.

Block

Oriya[1][2] (PDF)
0123456789ABCDEF
U+0B0x
U+0B1x
U+0B2x
U+0B3xି
U+0B4x
U+0B5x
U+0B6x
U+0B7x
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 Oriya block:

VersionFinal code pointsCountUTC IDL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
1.0.0U+0B01..0B03, 0B05..0B0C, 0B0F..0B10, 0B13..0B28, 0B2A..0B30, 0B32..0B33, 0B36..0B39, 0B3C..0B43, 0B47..0B48, 0B4B..0B4D, 0B57, 0B5C..0B5D, 0B5F..0B61, 0B66..0B7078UTC/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"
Pournader, Roozbeh (2020-01-16), Proposed sequences for composition exclusions
Moore, Lisa (2020-05-14), "B.13.1.1 Proposed sequences for composition exclusions", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162
1.1U+0B561(to be determined)
4.0U+0B35, 0B712McGowan, 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
Everson, Michael; Stone, Anthony (2002-11-20), On Oriya VA and WA
Everson, Michael; Stone, Anthony (2002-11-21), On Oriya VA and WA, and a proposal to encode one Oriya letter in the UCS
Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Oriya document], 2003-03-04
5.1U+0B44, 0B62..0B633Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Oriya document], 2003-03-04
Vikas, Om (2005-02-07), "Awaiting Updates-Bengali & Oriya", Issues in Representation of Indic Scripts in Unicode
McGowan, Rick (2005-02-09), Indic ad hoc report
Moore, Lisa (2005-05-16), "Scripts - Indic (C.12)", UTC #102 Minutes
Everson, Michael; Scharf, Peter; Angot, Michel; Chandrashekar, R.; Hyman, Malcolm; Rosenfield, Susan; Sastry, B. V. Venkatakrishna; Witzel, Michael (2007-04-13), Proposal to encode characters for Vedic Sanskrit in the BMP of the UCS
Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), "111-C17", UTC #111 Minutes
Everson, Michael (2007-05-25), Proposal to encode four characters for Oriya and Malayalam
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.23", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
6.0U+0B72..0B776Pandey, Anshuman (2007-12-04), Proposal to Encode Oriya Fraction Signs
Pandey, Anshuman (2008-05-05), Proposal to Encode Oriya Fraction Signs in ISO/IEC 10646
Pandey, Anshuman (2008-05-05), Proposal to Encode Oriya Fraction Signs in ISO/IEC 10646
Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Oriya Fraction Signs", UTC #115 Minutes
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), "M53.24d", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53
13.0U+0B551Evans, Lorna (2019-01-01), Proposal to encode ORIYA SIGN OVERLINE
Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2019-01-13), "11. Oriya", Recommendations to UTC #158 January 2019 on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2019-02-08), "D.4", UTC #158 Minutes
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2019-07-22), "9. Oriya", Recommendations to UTC #160 July 2019 on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2019-10-07), "D.9", UTC #160 Minutes