Sinhala Archaic Numbers is a Unicode block containing Sinhala Illakkam number characters.

Block

Sinhala Archaic Numbers[1][2] (PDF)
0123456789ABCDEF
U+111Ex𑇡𑇢𑇣𑇤𑇥𑇦𑇧𑇨𑇩𑇪𑇫𑇬𑇭𑇮𑇯
U+111Fx𑇰𑇱𑇲𑇳𑇴
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 Archaic Numbers block:

VersionFinal code pointsCountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
7.0U+111E1..111F420L2/97-018Everson, Michael (1997-03-01), Proposal for encoding the Sinhala script in ISO/IEC 10646 (revision 1)
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
, , )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25
Everson, Michael (2007-02-08), Proposal to add archaic numbers for Sinhala to the BMP of the UCS
Moore, Lisa (2007-02-08), "Archaic numbers for Sinhala (C.12)", UTC #110 Minutes
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
Proposal to add archaic numbers for Sinhala to the BMP and SMP of the UCS, 2010-08-08
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