Kharoshthi is a Unicode block containing characters used to write the Gandhari and Sanskrit languages in northwest India from the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE.
| Kharoshthi | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+10A00..U+10A5F (96 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Kharoshthi |
| Major alphabets | Gandhari Sanskrit |
| Assigned | 68 code points |
| Unused | 28 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 4.1 (2005) | 65 (+65) |
| 11.0 (2018) | 68 (+3) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
| Kharoshthi[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+10A0x | 𐨀 | 𐨁 | 𐨂 | 𐨃 | 𐨅 | 𐨆 | 𐨌 | 𐨍 | 𐨎 | 𐨏 | ||||||
| U+10A1x | 𐨐 | 𐨑 | 𐨒 | 𐨓 | 𐨕 | 𐨖 | 𐨗 | 𐨙 | 𐨚 | 𐨛 | 𐨜 | 𐨝 | 𐨞 | 𐨟 | ||
| U+10A2x | 𐨠 | 𐨡 | 𐨢 | 𐨣 | 𐨤 | 𐨥 | 𐨦 | 𐨧 | 𐨨 | 𐨩 | 𐨪 | 𐨫 | 𐨬 | 𐨭 | 𐨮 | 𐨯 |
| U+10A3x | 𐨰 | 𐨱 | 𐨲 | 𐨳 | 𐨴 | 𐨵 | 𐨸 | 𐨹 | 𐨺 | 𐨿 | ||||||
| U+10A4x | 𐩀 | 𐩁 | 𐩂 | 𐩃 | 𐩄 | 𐩅 | 𐩆 | 𐩇 | 𐩈 | |||||||
| U+10A5x | 𐩐 | 𐩑 | 𐩒 | 𐩓 | 𐩔 | 𐩕 | 𐩖 | 𐩗 | 𐩘 | |||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
History
editThe following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Kharoshthi block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.1 | U+10A00..10A03, 10A05..10A06, 10A0C..10A13, 10A15..10A17, 10A19..10A33, 10A38..10A3A, 10A3F..10A47, 10A50..10A58 | 65 | L2/02-203R2 | N2524 | Glass, Andrew; Baums, Stefan; Salomon, Richard (2002-09-19), Proposal to Encode Kharoshthi in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646 |
| L2/02-424 | McGowan, Rick (2002-11-20), Supplementary Information to Accompany L2/02-203R2, Proposal to Encode Kharoshthi | ||||
| L2/03-314R2 | N2732 | Glass, Andrew; Baums, Stefan; Salomon, Richard (2003-09-18), Proposal to Encode Kharoshthi in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646 | |||
| N2956 | Freytag, Asmus (2005-08-12), "Representative glyphs for U+17D2 and U+10A3F", Unicode Consortium Liaison Report for WG2 Meeting #47 | ||||
| L2/05-180 | Moore, Lisa (2005-08-17), "Consensus 104-C12", UTC #104 Minutes, Change the representative glyphs for Kharoshthi U+10A3F and Khmer U+17D2 to be the same as U+17D2, but with both enclosed in a dashed box... | ||||
| N2953 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), "M47.16 (Miscellaneous glyph defects)", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15 | ||||
| 11.0 | U+10A34..10A35, 10A48 | 3 | L2/17-012 | N4812 | Glass, Andrew; Baums, Stefan (2017-01-17), Additional Characters for Kharoṣṭhī Script |
| L2/17-037 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Ishida, Richard; Misra, Karan; McGowan, Rick (2017-01-21), "8. Kharoshthi", Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/17-016 | Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "C.2.1", UTC #150 Minutes | ||||
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References
edit- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.