Tagalog (Unicode block)

Tagalog is a Unicode block containing characters of the pre-Spanish Philippine Tagalog variety of Baybayin script used for writing the Tagalog language.

Tagalog[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+170x
U+171x
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 13.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

Tagalog
RangeU+1700..U+171F
(32 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsTagalog
Major alphabetsBaybayin
Assigned20 code points
Unused12 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.220 (+20)
Note: [1][2]

History

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

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
3.2U+1700..170C, 170E..171420L2/98-217N1755 (pdf, Attach)Everson, Michael (1998-05-25), Proposal for encoding the Philippine scripts in the BMP of ISO/IEC 10646
L2/98-397Everson, Michael (1998-11-23), Revised proposal for encoding the Philippine scripts in the UCS
L2/99-014N1933Everson, Michael (1998-11-23), Revised proposal for encoding the Philippine scripts in the UCS
L2/98-419 (pdf, doc)Aliprand, Joan (1999-02-05), "Philippine Scripts", Approved Minutes -- UTC #78 & NCITS Subgroup L2 # 175 Joint Meeting, San Jose, CA -- December 1-4, 1998, [#78-M8] Motion:To accept document L2/98-397, Revised proposal for encoding Philippine scripts, for addition to the Unicode Standard after Version 3.0.
L2/99-232N2003Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1999-08-03), "9.4.1", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 36, Fukuoka, Japan, 1999-03-09--15
L2/00-097N2194Sato, T. K. (2000-02-22), Philippino characters (status report)
L2/00-357Everson, Michael (2000-10-16), Philippine Scripts (draft block description)
L2/01-050N2253Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), "7.14 Philippine scripts", Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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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