Sundanese (Unicode block)

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Sundanese
RangeU+1B80..U+1BBF
(64 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Sundanese
Major alphabetsAksara Sunda
Assigned64 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.1 (2008)55 (+55)
6.1 (2012)64 (+9)
Chart
Code chart
Note: [1] [2]

Sundanese is a Unicode block containing modern characters for writing the Sundanese script of the Sundanese language of the island of Java, Indonesia.

Contents

Sundanese [1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+1B8x
U+1B9x
U+1BAx  
U+1BBxᮿ
Notes
1. ^ As of Unicode version 15.0

History

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

Version Final code points [lower-alpha 1] Count L2  ID WG2  IDDocument
5.1U+1B80..1BAA, 1BAE..1BB955 L2/06-002 N3022 Everson, Michael (2006-01-09), Proposal for encoding the Sundanese script in the BMP of the UCS
L2/06-008R2 Moore, Lisa (2006-02-13), "C.3", UTC #106 Minutes
L2/06-108 Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), "C.5", UTC #107 Minutes
N3103 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-08-25), "M48.9", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 48, Mountain View, CA, USA; 2006-04-24/27
L2/16-123 "Glyph correction needed for Sundanese Letter JA (1B8F)", Comments on Public Review Issues (Jan 22, 2016 - May 03, 2016), 2016-05-05
6.1U+1BAB..1BAD, 1BBA..1BBF9 L2/09-190 N3648 Everson, Michael (2009-05-05), Preliminary proposal for encoding additional Sundanese characters for Old Sundanese
L2/09-225R Moore, Lisa (2009-08-17), "C.7", UTC #120 / L2 #217 Minutes
L2/09-251R N3666R Everson, Michael (2009-09-05), Proposal for encoding additional Sundanese characters for Old Sundanese
N3703 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2010-04-13), "M55.22", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 55, Tokyo 2009-10-26/30
L2/14-034 Glass, Andrew (2014-01-27), Fixing the properties of two Sundanese characters
L2/14-026 Moore, Lisa (2014-02-17), "Consensus 138-C4", UTC #138 Minutes, Change the general category of U+1BAC and U+1BAD from Mc to Mn and the bidi property from L to NSM, for Unicode 7.0.
L2/20-046 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2020-01-10), "13. Other – Glyph Changes", Recommendations to UTC #162 January 2020 on Script Proposals
L2/20-012 Schneider, Marcel (2020-01-13), Proposal to synchronize seven glyphs in the Code Charts
L2/21-221 Nurwansah, Ilham (2021-09-28), Wrong Identities of Three Historical Sundanese Character [Affects U+1BBA, 1BBD, 1BBF]
L2/21-174 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Liang, Hai (2021-10-01), "13. Sundanese", Recommendations to UTC #169 October 2021 on Script Proposals
L2/21-167 Cummings, Craig (2022-01-27), "B.1 Section 13 Sundanese", Approved Minutes of UTC Meeting 169
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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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.