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Bengali (Unicode block)

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Bengali
RangeU+0980..U+09FF
(128 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsBengali
Major alphabetsBengali
Assamese
Assigned95 code points
Unused33 reserved code points
Source standardsISCII
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)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2] Template:Contains Indic text

Bengali Unicode block contains characters for the Bengali, Assamese, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Daphla, Garo, Hallam, Khasi, Mizo, Munda, Naga, Rian, 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.

Block

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
U+099x
U+09Ax
U+09Bx ি
U+09Cx
U+09Dx
U+09Ex
U+09Fx
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0
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 Bengali block:

Version Final code points[a] Count 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 (to be determined)
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
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
L2/02-117 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
L2/03-084 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 L2/07-192 N3311 Pandey, Anshuman (2007-05-21), Proposal to Encode the Ganda Currency Mark for Bengali in the BMP of the UCS
7.0 U+0980 1 L2/11-359 N4157 Pandey, Anshuman (2011-10-21), Proposal to Encode the Sign Anji for Bengali
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
L2/12-184 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 L2/15-161 Sharma, Shriramana (2015-07-31), Proposal to encode 09CF BENGALI LETTER VEDIC ANUSVARA
U+09FD 1 L2/15-172R A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2015-07-09), Proposal to Encode an Abbreviation Sign for Bengali
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
  2. ^ See also L2/01-303, L2/01-304, L2/01-305, and L2/01-430R

References

  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.