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Unicode Status for Buginese

In The Unicode Standard, Buginese script implementation is discussed in Chapter 17: Southeast Asia-II — Indonesia and the Philippines and in UTN 35: Indonesian and Philippine Scripts and extensions.

The Buginese script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 4.1. The script is encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
Buginese1A00..1A1F4.1U1A00.pdf

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

  • 1992-11-25 Buginese — Rick McGowan (Unicode Technical Report #3 R2)

  • 1997-12-08 Proposal to encode Buginese in ISO/IEC 10646 — Michael Everson (WG2 N1657.htm, L2/98-021 (neither online))

  • 1998-11-24 Revised proposal for encoding the Buginese script in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N1930, L2/99-011)

  • 2003-06-09 Final proposal for encoding the Buginese script in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N2588, L2/03-191)

  • 2003-08-13 Lepcha, Limbu, Syloti, Saurashtra, Tai Le and Bugis Proposals — Daniel Kai (L2/03-253)

  • 2003-08-13 Introduction to the Bugis Script — Daniel Kai (L2/03-254)

  • 2003-10-05 Revised final proposal for encoding the Lontara (Buginese) script in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N2633, L2/03-320)

  • 2011-03-03 Indonesian and Philippine Scripts and extensions not yet encoded or proposed for encoding in Unicode — Christopher Miller (L2/11-091)

  • 2012-10-29 Buginese Issues — Andrew Glass (L2/12-341)

  • 2016-04-28 Proposal to encode VIRAMA signs for Buginese — Anshuman Pandey (L2/16-075)

    • Recommendations to UTC #147 May 2016 on Script Proposals — Deborah Anderson, Ken Whistler, Roozbeh Pournader, Andrew Glass, Laurentiu Iancu (L2/16-156) (See section 12 for recommendations)

    • UTC #147 Minutes (L2/16-121) (See D.5 for decision and action items)

  • 2016-04-28 Representing Lota Ende in Unicode — Anshuman Pandey (L2/16-076)

    • Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals — Deborah Anderson, Ken Whistler, Rick McGowan, Roozbeh Pournader, Andrew Glass, Laurentiu Iancu, and Lisa Moore (L2/16-216) (See section 11c for recommendations)

  • 2016-04-29 Representing Sumbawa in Unicode — Anshuman Pandey (L2/16-096)

    • Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals — Deborah Anderson, Ken Whistler, Rick McGowan, Roozbeh Pournader, Andrew Glass, Laurentiu Iancu, and Lisa Moore (L2/16-216) (See section 11a for recommendations)

  • 2016-05-03 Representing Bima in Unicode — Anshuman Pandey (L2/16-119)

    • Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals — Deborah Anderson, Ken Whistler, Rick McGowan, Roozbeh Pournader, Andrew Glass, Laurentiu Iancu, and Lisa Moore (L2/16-216) (See section 11b for recommendations)

  • 2016-05-09 Preliminary proposal to encode ‘Buginese Extensions’ in Unicode — Anshuman Pandey (L2/16-159)

    • Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals — Deborah Anderson, Ken Whistler, Rick McGowan, Roozbeh Pournader, Andrew Glass, Laurentiu Iancu, and Lisa Moore (L2/16-216) (See section 11d for recommendations)

  • 2022-05-15 Proposal to Encode Bima Characters in the UCS — Febri Muhammad Nasrullah (L2/22-150)

    • Recommendations to UTC #172 July 2022 on Script Proposals (L2/22-128) (See point 9.)

  • 2023-02-05 Proposal to encode Bima characters (supercedes L2/22-150) — Febri Muhammad Nasrullah (L2/23-070)

    • Recommendations to UTC #175 April 2023 on Script Proposals (L2/23-083) (See point C.10.)

  • 2023-03-26 Comments on Public Review Issues (January 5 - April 5, 2023) — Eduardo Marin Silva (https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2023/23078-pubrev.html) (See Feedback to SAH)

Recommendations to UTC #175 April 2023 on Script Proposals (L2/23-083) (See point A.iv.8.)