Ol Chiki | |
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Range | U+1C50..U+1C7F (48 code points) |
Plane | BMP |
Scripts | Ol Chiki |
Major alphabets | Santali |
Assigned | 48 code points |
Unused | 0 reserved code points |
Unicode version history | |
5.1 (2008) | 48 (+48) |
Unicode documentation | |
Code chart ∣ Web page | |
Note: [1] [2] |
Ol Chiki is a Unicode block containing characters of the Ol Chiki, or Ol Cemet' script used for writing the Santali language during the early 20th century.
Ol Chiki [1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
U+1C5x | ᱐ | ᱑ | ᱒ | ᱓ | ᱔ | ᱕ | ᱖ | ᱗ | ᱘ | ᱙ | ᱚ | ᱛ | ᱜ | ᱝ | ᱞ | ᱟ |
U+1C6x | ᱠ | ᱡ | ᱢ | ᱣ | ᱤ | ᱥ | ᱦ | ᱧ | ᱨ | ᱩ | ᱪ | ᱫ | ᱬ | ᱭ | ᱮ | ᱯ |
U+1C7x | ᱰ | ᱱ | ᱲ | ᱳ | ᱴ | ᱵ | ᱶ | ᱷ | ᱸ | ᱹ | ᱺ | ᱻ | ᱼ | ᱽ | ᱾ | ᱿ |
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The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Ol Chiki block:
Version | Final code points [lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
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5.1 | U+1C50..1C7F | 48 | L2/99-060 | N1956 | Everson, Michael (1999-01-29), Proposal for encoding the Ol Cemet' script in the BMP of the UCS |
L2/02-422 | N2505 | Everson, Michael; Hansdah, R. C.; Murmu, N. C. (2002-11-03), Revised proposal for encoding the Ol Chiki script in the UCS | |||
L2/02-443 | N2561 | Raska, Divyendu; Marandi, Archer (2002-11-30), The need and practicalities to encode the 'Roman Script Santali' In the universal character set – a protest against efforts to encode the 'Ol Chiki' in the universal character set. | |||
L2/02-453 | N2562 | Anderson, Deborah (2002-12-03), Response to Divyendu Raska | |||
L2/02-456 | Anderson, Deborah (2002-12-09), Comments on Ol Chiki/Summary of Report from West Bengal | ||||
L2/03-008 | Raska, Divyendu Tudu (2002-12-16), Letter to Deborah Anderson re Santali | ||||
L2/03-007 | Saren, Jyotsna (2002-12-19), General protest against hindering of OL CHIKI | ||||
L2/03-005 | Anderson, Deborah (2002-12-30), Letter to D. Mardi | ||||
L2/03-006 | Anderson, Deborah (2002-12-30), Letter to Hanuk Hansdak and Ezicheal Hembrom | ||||
L2/03-062 | Anderson, Deborah (2003-02-23), Ol Chiki Correspondence Summary | ||||
L2/05-243R | N2984R | Everson, Michael (2005-09-05), Final proposal to encode the Ol Chiki script in the UCS | |||
L2/05-270 | Whistler, Ken (2005-09-21), "J. Old Chiki", WG2 Consent Docket (Sophia Antipolis) | ||||
L2/05-279 | Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), "Consensus 105-C31", UTC #105 Minutes | ||||
N2953 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), "7.4.14", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15 | ||||
N3075 | Anderson, Deborah (2006-04-10), Support for Ol Chiki (N2984R =L2/05‐243R) | ||||
L2/06-131 | Anderson, Deborah (2006-04-12), Support for Ol Chiki | ||||
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