Gurmukhi (Unicode block)

Gurmukhi
Range U+0A00..U+0A7F
(128 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Gurmukhi
Major alphabets Punjabi
Assigned 79 code points
Unused 49 reserved code points
Source standards ISCII
Unicode version history
1.0.0 74 (+74)
1.0.1 75 (+1)
4.0 77 (+2)
5.1 79 (+2)
Note: [1][2][3]

Gurmukhi is a Unicode block containing characters for the Punjabi language, as it is written in India. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0A02..U+0A4C were a direct copy of the Gurmukhi characters A2-EC from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.

Block

Gurmukhi[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+0A0x ਁ ਂ ਃ ਅ ਆ ਇ ਈ ਉ ਊ ਏ
U+0A1x ਐ ਓ ਔ ਕ ਖ ਗ ਘ ਙ ਚ ਛ ਜ ਝ ਞ ਟ
U+0A2x ਠ ਡ ਢ ਣ ਤ ਥ ਦ ਧ ਨ ਪ ਫ ਬ ਭ ਮ ਯ
U+0A3x ਰ ਲ ਲ਼ ਵ ਸ਼ ਸ ਹ ਼ ਾ ਿ
U+0A4x ੀ ੁ ੂ ੇ ੈ ੋ ੌ ੍
U+0A5x ੑ ਖ਼ ਗ਼ ਜ਼ ੜ ਫ਼
U+0A6x ੦ ੧ ੨ ੩ ੪ ੫ ੬ ੭ ੮ ੯
U+0A7x ੰ ੱ ੲ ੳ ੴ ੵ
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 10.0
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 Gurmukhi block:

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
1.0.0 U+0A02, 0A05..0A0A, 0A0F..0A10, 0A13..0A28, 0A2A..0A30, 0A32..0A33, 0A35..0A36, 0A38..0A39, 0A3C, 0A3E..0A42, 0A47..0A48, 0A4B..0A4C, 0A59..0A5C, 0A5E, 0A66..0A74 74 (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” 
L2/05-371R Sidhu, Sukhjinder (2005-11-30), Gurmukhi annotations 
1.0.1 U+0A4D 1 (to be determined)
4.0 U+0A01, 0A03 2 L2/01-431R[lower-alpha 2] 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 
L2/03-102 Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts 
L2/03-101.4 Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Gurmukhi document], 2003-03-04 
5.1 U+0A51 1 L2/05-088R Sidhu, Sukhjinder (2005-04-21), Proposed Changes to Gurmukhi 
L2/05-167 Sidhu, Sukhjinder (2005-08-01), Proposed Changes to Gurmukhi 2 
L2/05-344 Sidhu, Sukhjinder (2005-10-27), Proposed changes to Gurmukhi 3 
L2/05-384 Sidhu, Sukhjinder (2005-12-18), Proposal to encode Gurmukhi 3 
L2/06-020 McGowan, Rick (2006-01-25), Public Review Issue #82: Representation of Gurmukhi Double Vowels 
L2/06-030 Sidhu, Sukhjinder (2006-01-27), "E", Proposed Changes to Gurmukhi 4 
U+0A75 1 L2/06-037 Sidhu, Sukhjinder (2006-04-07), Proposal to encode Gurmukhi Sign Yakash 
  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 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  3. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
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