Malayalam (Unicode block)

Malayalam is a Unicode block containing characters of the Malayalam script. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0D02..U+0D4D were a direct copy of the Malayalam characters A2-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.

Malayalam
RangeU+0D00..U+0D7F
(128 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsMalayalam
Major alphabetsMalayalam
Assigned118 code points
Unused10 reserved code points
Source standardsISCII
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)78 (+78)
5.1 (2008)95 (+17)
6.0 (2010)98 (+3)
7.0 (2014)99 (+1)
8.0 (2015)100 (+1)
9.0 (2016)114 (+14)
10.0 (2017)117 (+3)
13.0 (2020)118 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Block

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Malayalam[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+0D0x
U+0D1x
U+0D2x
U+0D3x ി
U+0D4x   ൎ  
U+0D5x
U+0D6x
U+0D7x ൿ
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

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The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Malayalam block:

References

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  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.