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Brahmi is a Unicode block containing characters written in India from the 3rd century BCE through the first millennium CE. It is the predecessor to all modern Indic scripts.
Moore, Lisa (2012-02-14), "Consensus 130-C11", UTC #130 / L2 #227 Minutes, The UTC has determined that a virama should not be used in Sharada sequences involving Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya.
Moore, Lisa (2012-08-14), "Consensus 132-C16", UTC #132 Minutes, Create a glyph erratum for Brahmi Letter LLLA based on the image in document L2/12-292.
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Cook, Richard (2018-01-19), "8. Brahmi", Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2020-01-10), "7. Brahmi", Recommendations to UTC #162 January 2020 on Script Proposals
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-07-21), "10. Brahmi", Recommendations to UTC #164 July 2020 on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2020-08-03), "Consensus 164-C13", UTC #164 Minutes
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