Bengali (Unicode block)

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
RangeU+0980..U+09FF
(128 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsBengali
Major alphabetsBengali, Assamese
Assigned96 code points
Unused32 reserved code points
Source standardsISCII
Unicode version history
1.0.089 (+89)
4.090 (+1)
4.191 (+1)
5.292 (+1)
7.093 (+1)
10.095 (+2)
11.096 (+1)
Note: [1][2]

Block

Bengali[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+098x
U+099x
U+09Ax
U+09Bx ি
U+09Cx
U+09Dx
U+09Ex
U+09Fx
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 13.0
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:

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountUTC IDL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
1.0.0U+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..09FA89UTC/1991-056Whistler, Ken, Indic Charts: Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam
UTC/1991-057Whistler, Ken, Indic names list
UTC/1991-048BWhistler, Ken (1991-03-27), "III. L. Walk In proposals", Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple
L2/01-303Vikas, Om (2001-07-26), Letter from the Government from India on "Draft for Unicode Standard for Indian Scripts"
L2/01-304Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0, 2001-08-02
L2/01-305McGowan, Rick (2001-08-08), Draft UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
L2/01-430RMcGowan, Rick (2001-11-20), UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
L2/03-113Everson, Michael (2003-03-05), Conjuncts: making sure we are right
L2/08-288Whistler, Ken (2008-08-04), Public Review Issue #123: Bengali Currency Numerator Values
L2/08-361Moore, Lisa (2008-12-02), "Bengali Currency Numerator Values (B.11.1)", UTC #117 Minutes
L2/09-225RMoore, Lisa (2009-08-17), "E.1.2", UTC #120 / L2 #217 Minutes
L2/20-055Pournader, Roozbeh (2020-01-16), Proposed sequences for composition exclusions
L2/20-015Moore, Lisa (2020-01-23), "B.13.1.1 Proposed sequences for composition exclusions", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162
4.0U+09BD1L2/01-431R[lower-alpha 2]McGowan, Rick (2001-11-08), Actions for UTC and Editorial Committee in response to L2/01-430R
L2/01-405RMoore, 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
L2/02-117N2425McGowan, Rick (2002-03-21), Additional Characters for Indic Scripts
L2/03-084Jain, Manoj (2003-03-03), Proposed changes in the Unicode Standards for Indic Scripts - Bengali
L2/03-102Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
L2/03-101.1Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Bengali document], 2003-03-04
L2/03-104Jain, Manoj (2003-03-04), Sample Text for Bengali Sign Avagraha
L2/04-102Pavanaja, U. B. (2004-02-10), Bug in Kannada collation
L2/04-432Wissink, Cathy (2004-12-31), Indic collation: action items 99-20 and 99-29
4.1U+09CE1L2/00-303N2261Incorporation of Bangla (Bengali) Coded Character in ISO/IEC 10646-1, 2000-08-23
L2/00-304N2261-1Proposal Summary Form for character U+09BA, KHANDATA, 2000-08-23
L2/01-050N2253Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), "7.12 Proposal to synchronize Bengali standard with 10646", Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000
L2/03-084Jain, Manoj (2003-03-03), Proposed changes in the Unicode Standards for Indic Scripts - Bengali
L2/03-102Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
L2/03-101.1Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Bengali document], 2003-03-04
L2/04-060Sengupta, Gautam (2004-02-01), Encoding Bangla Khanda-Ta With Ta+Virama
L2/04-062Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Encoding Bangla Khanda-Ta With Ta+Virama
L2/04-102Pavanaja, U. B. (2004-02-10), Bug in Kannada collation
L2/04-262N2810Constable, Peter (2004-02-17), Encoding of Bengali Khanda Ta in Unicode (PRI #30 document)
L2/04-192N2811Sengupta, Gautam (2004-06-07), Feedback on PR-30: Encoding of Bangla Khanda Ta in Unicode
L2/04-233N2812Vikas, Om (2004-06-10), Letter to Mark Davis re Bengali Khanda Ta
L2/04-252N2813Constable, Peter (2004-06-15), Review of Bengali Khanda Ta and PRI-30 Feedback
L2/04-264N2809Constable, Peter (2004-06-17), Proposal to encode Bengali Khanda Ta in the UCS
L2/04-432Wissink, Cathy (2004-12-31), Indic collation: action items 99-20 and 99-29
5.2U+09FB1N3353 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), "M51.18", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
L2/07-192N3311Pandey, Anshuman (2007-05-21), Proposal to Encode the Ganda Currency Mark for Bengali in the BMP of the UCS
L2/07-225Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), "Bengali", UTC #112 Minutes
7.0U+09801L2/11-359Pandey, Anshuman (2011-10-21), Proposal to Encode the Sign Anji for Bengali
L2/11-403Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2011-10-26), "IV. BENGALI", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
L2/11-408Lata, Swaran (2011-10-27), Letter from Swaran Lata, Gov't of India, re proposals
L2/12-079Lata, Swaran (2012-02-07), Inputs of Govt. of India on various documents
L2/12-121N4157Pandey, Anshuman (2012-04-23), Proposal to Encode the Sign ANJI for Bengali
L2/12-147Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-04-25), "VII. BENGALI", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
L2/12-184Lata, Swaran (2012-05-07), GOI Feedback on the various Indic related documents
L2/12-277Lata, Swaran (2012-07-26), GOI Feedback on the various Indic related document submitted to UTC
10.0U+09FC1L2/15-204Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2015-07-25), "3. Bengali", Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals
L2/15-161Sharma, Shriramana (2015-07-31), Proposal to encode 09CF BENGALI LETTER VEDIC ANUSVARA
L2/15-187Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "D.6.1", UTC #144 Minutes
N4739"M64.06", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31
U+09FD1L2/15-172RA, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2015-07-09), Proposal to Encode an Abbreviation Sign for Bengali
L2/15-204Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2015-07-25), "3. Bengali", Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals
L2/15-187Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "D.6.2", UTC #144 Minutes
N4739"M64.06", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31
11.0U+09FE1L2/16-322N4808A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2016-11-01), Proposal to encode the SANDHI MARK for Bengali
L2/17-037Anderson, 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
L2/17-016Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "D.3.2", UTC #150 Minutes
L2/17-130Anderson, Deborah (2017-04-19), Comments on L2/16-322 and L2/16-383, Sandhi marks for Bengali and Newa
L2/17-153Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "4. Bengali and Newa", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals
L2/17-103Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "D.3 Sandhi Mark", UTC #151 Minutes
  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.
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