Malayalam (Unicode block)

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Malayalam
RangeU+0D00..U+0D7F
(128 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Malayalam
Major alphabetsMalayalam
Assigned118 code points
Unused10 reserved code points
Source standards ISCII
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)78 (+78)
5.1 (2008)95 (+17)
6.0 (2010)98 (+3)
7.0 (2014)99 (+1)
8.0 (2015)100 (+1)
9.0 (2016)114 (+14)
10.0 (2017)117 (+3)
13.0 (2020)118 (+1)
Code chart
Note: [1] [2]

Malayalam is a Unicode block containing characters of the Malayalam script. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0D02..U+0D4D were a direct copy of the Malayalam characters A2-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.

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Block

Malayalam [1] [2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+0D0xഀഁംഃഄഅആഇഈഉഊഋഌഎഏ
U+0D1xഐഒഓഔകഖഗഘങചഛജഝഞട
U+0D2xഠഡഢണതഥദധനഩപഫബഭമയ
U+0D3xരറലളഴവശഷസഹഺ഻഼ഽാി
U+0D4xീുൂൃൄെേൈൊോൌ്  ൎ  ൏
U+0D5xൔൕൖൗ൘൙൚൛൜൝൞ൟ
U+0D6xൠൡൢൣ൦൧൨൩൪൫൬൭൮൯
U+0D7x൰൱൲൳൴൵൶൷൸൹ൺൻർൽൾൿ
Notes
1. ^ As of Unicode version 14.0
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 Malayalam block:

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Gujarati is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Gujarati language. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0A81..U+0AD0 were a direct copy of the Gujarati characters A1-F0 from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.

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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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