Bengali Unicode block contains characters for the Bengali, Assamese, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Daphla, Garo, Hallam, Khasi, Mizo, Munda, Naga, Riang, and Santali languages. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0981..U+09CD were a direct copy of the Bengali characters A1-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard, as well as several Assamese ISCII characters in the U+09F0 column. The Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on ISCII encodings.
| Bengali | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+0980..U+09FF (128 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Bengali |
| Major alphabets | Bengali, Assamese |
| Assigned | 96 code points |
| Unused | 32 reserved code points |
| Source standards | ISCII |
| Unicode version history | |
| 1.0.0 (1991) | 89 (+89) |
| 4.0 (2003) | 90 (+1) |
| 4.1 (2005) | 91 (+1) |
| 5.2 (2009) | 92 (+1) |
| 7.0 (2014) | 93 (+1) |
| 10.0 (2017) | 95 (+2) |
| 11.0 (2018) | 96 (+1) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Block
edit| Bengali[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+098x | ঀ | ঁ | ং | ঃ | অ | আ | ই | ঈ | উ | ঊ | ঋ | ঌ | এ | |||
| U+099x | ঐ | ও | ঔ | ক | খ | গ | ঘ | ঙ | চ | ছ | জ | ঝ | ঞ | ট | ||
| U+09Ax | ঠ | ড | ঢ | ণ | ত | থ | দ | ধ | ন | প | ফ | ব | ভ | ম | য | |
| U+09Bx | র | ল | শ | ষ | স | হ | ় | ঽ | া | ি | ||||||
| U+09Cx | ী | ু | ূ | ৃ | ৄ | ে | ৈ | ো | ৌ | ্ | ৎ | |||||
| U+09Dx | ৗ | ড় | ঢ় | য় | ||||||||||||
| U+09Ex | ৠ | ৡ | ৢ | ৣ | ০ | ১ | ২ | ৩ | ৪ | ৫ | ৬ | ৭ | ৮ | ৯ | ||
| U+09Fx | ৰ | ৱ | ৲ | ৳ | ৴ | ৵ | ৶ | ৷ | ৸ | ৹ | ৺ | ৻ | ৼ | ৽ | ৾ | |
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
History
editThe following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Bengali block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | UTC ID | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | U+0981..0983, 0985..098C, 098F..0990, 0993..09A8, 09AA..09B0, 09B2, 09B6..09B9, 09BC, 09BE..09C4, 09C7..09C8, 09CB..09CD, 09D7, 09DC..09DD, 09DF..09E3, 09E6..09FA | 89 | UTC/1991-056 | Whistler, Ken, Indic Charts: Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam | ||
| UTC/1991-057 | Whistler, Ken, Indic names list | |||||
| UTC/1991-048B | Whistler, Ken (1991-03-27), "III. L. Walk In proposals", Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple | |||||
| L2/01-303 | Vikas, Om (2001-07-26), Letter from the Government from India on "Draft for Unicode Standard for Indian Scripts" | |||||
| L2/01-304 | Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0, 2001-08-02 | |||||
| L2/01-305 | McGowan, Rick (2001-08-08), Draft UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0" | |||||
| L2/01-430R | McGowan, Rick (2001-11-20), UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0" | |||||
| L2/03-113 | Everson, Michael (2003-03-05), Conjuncts: making sure we are right | |||||
| L2/08-288 | Whistler, Ken (2008-08-04), Public Review Issue #123: Bengali Currency Numerator Values | |||||
| L2/08-361 | Moore, Lisa (2008-12-02), "Bengali Currency Numerator Values (B.11.1)", UTC #117 Minutes | |||||
| L2/09-225R | Moore, Lisa (2009-08-17), "E.1.2", UTC #120 / L2 #217 Minutes | |||||
| L2/20-055 | Pournader, Roozbeh (2020-01-16), Proposed sequences for composition exclusions | |||||
| L2/20-015R | Moore, Lisa (2020-05-14), "B.13.1.1 Proposed sequences for composition exclusions", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162 | |||||
| 4.0 | U+09BD | 1 | L2/01-431R[b] | McGowan, Rick (2001-11-08), Actions for UTC and Editorial Committee in response to L2/01-430R | ||
| L2/01-405R | 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 | |||||
| L2/02-117 | N2425 | McGowan, Rick (2002-03-21), Additional Characters for Indic Scripts | ||||
| L2/03-084 | Jain, Manoj (2003-03-03), Proposed changes in the Unicode Standards for Indic Scripts - Bengali | |||||
| L2/03-102 | Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts | |||||
| L2/03-101.1 | Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Bengali document], 2003-03-04 | |||||
| L2/03-104 | Jain, Manoj (2003-03-04), Sample Text for Bengali Sign Avagraha | |||||
| L2/04-102 | Pavanaja, U. B. (2004-02-10), Bug in Kannada collation | |||||
| L2/04-432 | Wissink, Cathy (2004-12-31), Indic collation: action items 99-20 and 99-29 | |||||
| 4.1 | U+09CE | 1 | L2/00-303 | N2261 | Incorporation of Bangla (Bengali) Coded Character in ISO/IEC 10646-1, 2000-08-23 | |
| L2/00-304 | N2261-1 | Proposal Summary Form for character U+09BA, KHANDATA, 2000-08-23 | ||||
| L2/01-050 | N2253 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), "7.12 Proposal to synchronize Bengali standard with 10646", Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000 | ||||
| L2/03-084 | Jain, Manoj (2003-03-03), Proposed changes in the Unicode Standards for Indic Scripts - Bengali | |||||
| L2/03-102 | Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts | |||||
| L2/03-101.1 | Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Bengali document], 2003-03-04 | |||||
| L2/04-060 | Sengupta, Gautam (2004-02-01), Encoding Bangla Khanda-Ta With Ta+Virama | |||||
| L2/04-062 | Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Encoding Bangla Khanda-Ta With Ta+Virama | |||||
| L2/04-102 | Pavanaja, U. B. (2004-02-10), Bug in Kannada collation | |||||
| L2/04-262 | N2810 | Constable, Peter (2004-02-17), Encoding of Bengali Khanda Ta in Unicode (PRI #30 document) | ||||
| L2/04-192 | N2811 | Sengupta, Gautam (2004-06-07), Feedback on PR-30: Encoding of Bangla Khanda Ta in Unicode | ||||
| L2/04-233 | N2812 | Vikas, Om (2004-06-10), Letter to Mark Davis re Bengali Khanda Ta | ||||
| L2/04-252 | N2813 | Constable, Peter (2004-06-15), Review of Bengali Khanda Ta and PRI-30 Feedback | ||||
| L2/04-264 | N2809 | Constable, Peter (2004-06-17), Proposal to encode Bengali Khanda Ta in the UCS | ||||
| L2/04-432 | Wissink, Cathy (2004-12-31), Indic collation: action items 99-20 and 99-29 | |||||
| 5.2 | U+09FB | 1 | N3353 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), "M51.18", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27 | ||
| L2/07-192 | N3311 | Pandey, Anshuman (2007-05-21), Proposal to Encode the Ganda Currency Mark for Bengali in the BMP of the UCS | ||||
| L2/07-225 | Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), "Bengali", UTC #112 Minutes | |||||
| 7.0 | U+0980 | 1 | L2/11-359 | Pandey, Anshuman (2011-10-21), Proposal to Encode the Sign Anji for Bengali | ||
| L2/11-403 | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2011-10-26), "IV. BENGALI", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC | |||||
| L2/11-408 | Lata, Swaran (2011-10-27), Letter from Swaran Lata, Gov't of India, re proposals | |||||
| L2/12-079 | Lata, Swaran (2012-02-07), Inputs of Govt. of India on various documents | |||||
| L2/12-121 | N4157 | Pandey, Anshuman (2012-04-23), Proposal to Encode the Sign ANJI for Bengali | ||||
| L2/12-147 | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-04-25), "VII. BENGALI", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC | |||||
| L2/12-184 | Lata, Swaran (2012-05-07), GOI Feedback on the various Indic related documents | |||||
| L2/12-277 | Lata, Swaran (2012-07-26), GOI Feedback on the various Indic related document submitted to UTC | |||||
| 10.0 | U+09FC | 1 | L2/15-204 | Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2015-07-25), "3. Bengali", Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals | ||
| L2/15-161 | Sharma, Shriramana (2015-07-31), Proposal to encode 09CF BENGALI LETTER VEDIC ANUSVARA | |||||
| L2/15-187 | Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "D.6.1", UTC #144 Minutes | |||||
| N4739 | "M64.06", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31 | |||||
| U+09FD | 1 | L2/15-172R | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2015-07-09), Proposal to Encode an Abbreviation Sign for Bengali | |||
| L2/15-204 | Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2015-07-25), "3. Bengali", Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals | |||||
| L2/15-187 | Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "D.6.2", UTC #144 Minutes | |||||
| N4739 | "M64.06", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31 | |||||
| 11.0 | U+09FE | 1 | L2/16-322 | N4808 | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2016-11-01), Proposal to encode the SANDHI MARK for Bengali | |
| 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), "4. Bengali", Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals | |||||
| L2/17-016 | Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "D.3.2", UTC #150 Minutes | |||||
| L2/17-130 | Anderson, Deborah (2017-04-19), Comments on L2/16-322 and L2/16-383, Sandhi marks for Bengali and Newa | |||||
| L2/17-153 | Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "4. Bengali and Newa", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals | |||||
| L2/17-103 | Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "D.3 Sandhi Mark", UTC #151 Minutes | |||||
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.