Unicode Status for Buhid
In The Unicode Standard, Buhid script implementation is discussed in Chapter 17: Southeast Asia-II — Indonesia and the Philippines
.
The Buhid script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 3.2. The script is encoded in the following block:
| Blocks | Character Range | Added in Unicode Version | Unicode Chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buhid | 1740..175F | 3.2 | U1740 |
A number of proposals for its inclusion were submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and WG2:
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1992-10-29 Tagalog and Mangyan (Buhid) — Rick McGowan (Unicode Technical Report #3 R2
) -
1998-05-25 Proposal for encoding the Philippine script in the BMP of ISO/IEC 10646 — Michael Everson (WG2 N1755
, L2/98-217) -
1998-11-23 Revised proposal for encoding the Philippine script in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N1933
, L2/98-397, L2/99-014) -
2000-02-22 Philippino characters (status report) — Takayuki K. Sato (WG2 N2194.doc
, L2/00-097) -
2000-10-16 New draft for Philippine script with block introduction — Michael Everson (L2/00-357
) -
2004-03-09 Indic scripts collation grouping; CTT suggestion — Kent Karlsson (WG2 2716.doc
, L2/04-109) -
2008-03-02 Criteria for the encoding of script-specific dandas — Unicode and US National Body (WG2 N3457
, L2/08-118) -
2011-03-03 Indonesian and Philippine Scripts and extensions not yet encoded or proposed for encoding in Unicode — Christopher Miller (L2/11-091
)