Myanmar Extended-A

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Myanmar Extended-A
RangeU+AA60..U+AA7F
(32 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Myanmar
Major alphabetsKhamti Shan
Aiton
Assigned32 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.2 (2009)28 (+28)
7.0 (2014)32 (+4)
Chart
Code chart
Note: [1] [2]

Myanmar Extended-A is a Unicode block containing Myanmar characters for writing the Khamti Shan and Aiton languages.

Contents

Block

Myanmar Extended-A [1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+AA6x
U+AA7xꩿ
Notes
1. ^ As of Unicode version 14.0

The block has eleven variation sequences defined for standardized variants. [3] They use U+FE00 VARIATION SELECTOR-1 (VS01) to denote the dotted letters used for the Khamti, Aiton, and Phake languages. [4] (Note that this is font dependent. For example, the Padauk font supports some of the dotted forms.)

Variation sequences for dotted forms
U+AA60AA61AA62AA63AA64AA65AA66AA6BAA6CAA6FAA7A
base code point
base + VS01

History

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

Version Final code points [lower-alpha 1] Count L2  ID WG2  IDDocument
5.2U+AA60..AA7A27 L2/08-145 N3436 Everson, Michael (2008-04-14), Ordering and character properties for Myanmar Khamti Shan characters
L2/08-181R N3423R Hosken, Martin (2008-04-29), Proposal to add Khamti Shan Characters to the Myanmar Blocks
L2/08-218 Muller, Eric (2008-05-12), "3", South Asia Subcommittee Report - Monday May 12, 2008
L2/08-276 N3492 Hosken, Martin (2008-08-04), Extended proposal to add Khamti Shan Characters to the Myanmar Blocks [2008.08.04]
L2/08-317 Muller, Eric (2008-08-11), "4", South Asia Subcommittee Report
L2/08-318 N3453 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.13", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52
L2/08-253R2 Moore, Lisa (2008-08-19), "Myanmar/Khamti Shan (B15.2, E.4)", UTC #116 Minutes
L2/08-161R2 Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Myanmar", UTC #115 Minutes
L2/08-412 N3553 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), "M53.04", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53
L2/14-170 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-07-28), "16", Recommendations to UTC #140 August 2014 on Script Proposals
L2/14-108 Hosken, Martin; Morey, Stephen (2014-08-05), Proposal to Disunify Khamti Style Letters from Myanmar
L2/16-163 Pournader, Roozbeh (2015-05-12), Additions to Indic Syllabic Category for Myanmar and Khmer
L2/15-257 Hosken, Martin (2015-11-02), Proposal to Disunify Khamti Letters from Myanmar
L2/15-320 Hosken, Martin (2015-11-03), Proposal to Create Variation Sequences for Khamti Characters
L2/15-254 Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), "Consensus 145-C23", UTC #145 Minutes, Accept the 27 variation sequences in document L2/15-320 for Unicode version 9.0.
L2/20-263 Mitchell, Ben (2020-08-14), Request for a formal name alias for uniAA6E Khamti HHA
L2/20-250 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-10-01), "17. Myanmar", Recommendations to UTC #165 October 2020 on Script Proposals
L2/20-237 Moore, Lisa (2020-10-27), "Consensus 165-C19", UTC #165 Minutes, The UTC accepts a formal name alias of type "correction" for U+AA6E MYANMAR LETTER KHAMTI HHA, for Unicode version 14.0. The formal name alias will be: MYANMAR LETTER KHAMTI LLA.
U+AA7B1 L2/09-100R N3594R Everson, Michael; Hosken, Martin (2009-04-09), Proposal for encoding one additional Myanmar character for Pa'o Karen in the UCS
L2/09-234 N3603 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.03c", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
L2/09-104 Moore, Lisa (2009-05-20), "Consensus 119-C22", UTC #119 / L2 #216 Minutes
7.0U+AA7C..AA7F4 L2/11-130 Hosken, Martin (2011-04-19), Proposal to add minority characters to Myanmar script
L2/12-012 N3976 Hosken, Martin (2011-05-23), Proposal to add minority characters to Myanmar script
L2/11-130R N3976R Hosken, Martin (2012-02-11), Proposal to add minority characters to Myanmar script
L2/12-007 Moore, Lisa (2012-02-14), "D.7", UTC #130 / L2 #227 Minutes
N4253 (pdf, doc)"M59.16k", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 59, 2012-09-12
  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.
  3. "Unicode Character Database: Standardized Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.
  4. Hosken, Martin (2015-11-03). "L2/15-320: Proposal to Create Variation Sequences for Khamti Characters" (PDF).