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Unicode Status for Balinese

In The Unicode Standard, Balinese script implementation is discussed in Chapter 17: Southeast Asia-II — Indonesia and the Philippines.

The Balinese script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 5.0. The script is encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
Balinese1B00..1B7F5.0U1B00.pdf

A number of proposals for its inclusion were submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and WG2:

  • 1992-10-29 Kawi / Javanese / Balinese — Rick McGowan (Unicode Technical Report #3 R2)

  • 2003-03-12 Contemporary Use of The Balinese Script — Ida Bagus Adi Sudewa (L2/03-118)

  • 2003-05-13 Letter in support of Balinese encoding from Dept of National Education, Language Center, Denpasar Language Council — via Deborah Anderson (L2/03-156)

  • 2003-05-14 Two letters in support of Balinese encoding — via Deborah Anderson (L2/03-152)

  • 2003-05-16 Four letters in support of Balinese encoding — via Deborah Anderson (L2/03-153)

  • 2004-10-04 Preliminary proposal for encoding the Balinese script in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N2856, L2/04-357)

  • 2005-01-23 Proposal for encoding the Balinese script in the UCS — Michael Everson and I Made Suatjana (WG2 N2908, L2/05-008)

  • 2005-01-19 Balinese government support for encoding the Balinese script — Michael Everson (WG2 N2916, L2/05-021)

  • 2005-02-02 Comments on Balinese Proposal, L2/05-008 — Peter Constable ( L2/05-056)

  • 2005-04-14 Proposed Balinese Character Properties — Rick McGowan (L2/05-090)

  • 2005-04-25 Proposed Balinese Line-Breaking Classes — Rick McGowan (L2/05-091)

  • 2005-08-16 Letter from Badan Standardisasi Nasional (BSN Indonesia) re Balinese — Indonesia N.B. (L2/05-234)

  • 2008-03-02 Criteria for the encoding of script-specific dandas — Unicode and US National Body (WG2 N3457, L2/08-118)

  • 2014-02-05 A bag of suggested improvements to Unicode’s provisional Indic properties — Roozbeh Pournader, Behdad Esfahbod (L2/14-065)

  • 2014-05-08 Improvements requested for Unicode Indic properties (two text file appendices are included) — Roozbeh Pournader (L2/14-126)

  • 2019-07-10 Proposal to encode Balinese Archaic Jnya — Ben Yang, Aditya Bayu Perdana (L2/19-259)

    • Recommendations to UTC #160 July 2019 on Script Proposals (L2/19-286) (See point 11.)

    • UTC #160 Minutes (L2/19-270) (See C.13 for decision and action items)

  • 2019-09-27 Proposal to encode two Balinese punctuation marks — Ben Yang, Aditya Bayu Perdana (L2/19-318)

    • Recommendations to UTC #161 October 2019 on Script Proposals (L2/19-343) (See point 15.)

    • UTC #161 Minutes (L2/19-323) (See D.2 for decision and action items)

  • 2020-06-05 Syllabic category of Balinese Surang, Javanese Layar, and Sundanese Panglayar — Aditya Bayu Perdana, Ilham Nurwansah, Norbert Lindenberg (L2/20-150)

    • Recommendations to UTC #164 July 2020 on Script Proposals (L2/20-169) (See point 19.)

    • UTC #164 Minutes (L2/20-172) (See B.1 for decision and action items)

  • 2022-03-16 Proposal to Encode Three Balinese Punctuation Marks — Rikza F. Sh., Aditya Bayu Perdana (L2/22-059)

    • Recommendations to UTC #171 April 2022 on Script Proposals (L2/22-068) (See point 8.)

    • UTC #171 Minutes (L2/22-061) (See D.1 SECTION 8 for decision and action items)

  • 2022-04-13 Specification updates for orthographic syllables and line breaking — Norbert Lindenberg (L2/22-086)

  • 2022-04-15 Line breaking at orthographic syllable boundaries (revised) — Norbert Lindenberg, et al (L2/22-080)

  • 2023-01-14 Confusables in Balinese, Javanese, and Kawi — Norbert Lindenberg (L2/23-027)

  • 2023-08-29 UTN#51: Musical Symbols and Sasak Characters in the Balinese Script — Aditya Bayu Perdana (UTN#51)

    • Recommendations to UTC #177 November 2023 on Script Proposals (L2/23-238) (See point C.27.)

  • 2024-02-28 Unicode Standard version 15.0.0 chapter 17 — Aditya Bayu Perdana (https://www.unicode.org/review/pri497/feedback.html#ID20240228052730)

    • Recommendations to UTC #179 April 2024 on Script Proposals (L2/24-068) (See point A.VIII.19.)

    • UTC #179 Minutes (L2/24-061) (See D.1 Section VIII-19 for decision and action items)