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Unicode Status for Bhaiksuki

In The Unicode Standard, Bhaiksuki script implementation is discussed in Chapter 14: South and Central Asia-III — Ancient Scripts.

The Bhaiksuki script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 9.0. The script is now encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode chart
Bhaiksuki11C00..11C6F9.0U11C00.pdf

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

  • 2011-07-11 Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Bhaiksuki Script in ISO/IEC 10646 — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N4121, L2/11-259)

  • 2013-07-22 Proposal to Encode the Bhaiksuki Script in ISO/IEC 10646 — Anshuman Pandey, Dragomir Dimitrov (WG2 N4469, L2/13-167)

  • 2013-10-27 Revised Proposal to Encode the Bhaiksuki Script in ISO/IEC 10646 — Anshuman Pandey, Dragomir Dimitrov (WG2 N4489, L2/13-194)

  • 2014-01-27 Revised Proposal to Encode the Bhaiksuki Script in ISO/IEC 10646 — Anshuman Pandey, Dragomir Dimitrov (L2/14-036)

  • 2014-04-23 Final Proposal to Encode the Bhaiksuki Script in ISO/IEC 10646 — Anshuman Pandey, Dragomir Dimitrov (WG2 N4573, L2/14-091)