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] (PDF)
0123456789ABCDEF
U+0D8x
U+0D9x
U+0DAx
U+0DBx
U+0DCx
U+0DDx
U+0DEx
U+0DFx
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 Sinhala block:

VersionFinal code pointsCountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
3.0U+0D82..0D83, 0D85..0D96, 0D9A..0DB1, 0DB3..0DBB, 0DBD, 0DC0..0DC6, 0DCA, 0DCF..0DD4, 0DD6, 0DD8..0DDF, 0DF2..0DF480L2/97-019N1480Ginige, S. L. (1996-11-15), Request to add Sinhalese to 10646 based on recent Sinhalese Standard (SLS 1134-1996)
L2/97-019.1Sri Lanka standard Sinhala character code for information interchange
L2/97-018Everson, Michael (1997-03-01), Proposal for encoding the Sinhala script in ISO/IEC 10646 (revision 1)
N1532Ross, Hugh McGregor (1997-03-07), Comment on Sri Lanka Proposal for Sinhala Script
L2/97-030, )Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1997-04-01), "8.6", Unconfirmed Minutes of WG 2 Meeting #32, Singapore; 1997-01-20--24
L2/97-145N1589Everson, Michael (1997-06-13), Mapping of Sinhala between ISO/IEC 10646 and SLS 1134
N1585Disanayaka, J. B. (1997-06-25), Towards Standard Sinhala Character Code
N1584Adams, Glenn (1997-06-30), Feedback on Sinhala Script Proposals (N1480, N 1473R, etc.)
L2/97-158N1613Report of ad-hoc group on Sinhala encoding, 1997-07-02
L2/97-288Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "8.7", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997
Revised text of 10646-1/FPDAM 21, AMENDMENT 21: Sinhala, 1998-10-22
, , )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25
Dias, Gihan (2010-05-05), Sinhala Named Sequences
Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "Consensus 123-C32", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes, Accept three Sinhala named sequences as provisional in Unicode 6.0...
, )"M57.09 (Named USIs for Sinhala)", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31
7.0U+0DE6..0DEF10, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.28", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
Inclusion of archaic Sinhala numerals in the Sinhala character code range, 2008-01-07
Dias, Gihan (2008-01-28), Archaic Sinhala Numerals
Observations on the Encoding of Archaic Sinhala Numerals in Unicode/UCS, 2008-02-05
Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), "Archaic Sinhala Numerals", UTC #114 Minutes
Dias, Gihan (2010-05-03), Preliminary Proposal to Encode Sinhala Digits and Numerals
Dias, Gihan (2010-08-10), Proposal to Encode Sinhala Archaic Numerals and Numbers
Proposal to include Sinhala Numerals to the BMP and SMP of the UCS, 2010-08-19
Senaweera, 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
Unicode Character Properties of Sinhala Lith Illakkam (Sinhala Astrological Digits) and Sinhala Illakkam or Sinhala Archaic Numbers
Wijayawardhana, Harsha; et al. (2010-10-23), RE: Background information on the use of Sinhala Numerals (L2/10-337)
Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "Sinhala Numerals", UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes
, )"M57.14", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31
13.0U+0D811A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2018-02-05), Proposal to encode the CANDRABINDU for Sinhala
Anderson, Deborah (2018-03-21), Feedback on Sinhala candrabindu (L2/18-060)
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Chapman, Chris; Cook, Richard (2018-04-28), "10. Sinhala", Recommendations to UTC #155 April-May 2018 on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "D.4.1", UTC #155 Minutes
Moore, Lisa (2018-11-20), "B.1.3.1.1.1", UTC #156 Minutes
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "10.3.14", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67
Pournader, Roozbeh (2020-01-15), Changes to Identifier_Type of some Unicode 13.0 characters
Moore, Lisa (2020-05-14), "B.13.4 Changes to Identifier_Type of some Unicode 13.0 characters", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162