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Unicode Status for Chakma

In The Unicode Standard, Chakma script implementation is discussed in Chapter 13: South and Central Asia-II — Other Modern Scripts.

The Chakma script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 6.1. The script is encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
Chakma11100..1114F6.1U11100.pdf

Subsequent to version 6.1, the following characters have been added to Chakma:

CharactersUnicode VersionDocumentation
11144..1114611.0L2/16-330

Documentation refers to ISO Working Group and Unicode proposals

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

  • 2008-04-08 Preliminary proposal for encoding the Chakma script in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N3428, L2/08-133)

  • 2009-08-13 Proposal for encoding the Chakma script in the UCS — Michael Everson, Martin Hosken (WG2 N3645, L2/09-187)

  • 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)

  • 2016-10-28 Request to change the Indic Shaping Property for U+11134 — Andrew Glass, Bivuti Chakma (L2/16-303)

    • Recommendations to UTC #149 November 2016 on Script Proposals (L2/16-342) (See point 5A.)

    • UTC #149 Minutes (L2/16-325) (See B.14.2 for decision and action items)

  • 2016-11-02 Proposal to encode CHAKMA LETTER LHAA, DEPENDENT VOWEL SIGNS AA & EI for Chakma — Bivuti Chakma, Andrew Glass (L2/16-330)

    • Recommendations to UTC #149 November 2016 on Script Proposals (L2/16-342) (See point 5B.)

    • UTC #149 Minutes (L2/16-325) (See D.13 for decision and action items)

  • 2018-09-14 Comments on Public Review Issues (July 24 - Sept 14, 2018) — Rick McGowan (L2/18-274)

    • Recommendations to UTC #158 January 2019 on Script Proposals (L2/19-047) (See point 6.)

    • UTC #158 Minutes (L2/19-008) (See D.7 for decision and action items)

  • 2019-04-22 Proposal to encode CHAKMA LETTER VAA for Pali — Zachary Scheuren (L2/19-143)

    • Recommendations to UTC #159 April-May 2019 on Script Proposals (L2/19-173) (See point 11.)

    • UTC #159 Minutes (L2/19-122) (See D.5 for decision and action items)

  • 2019-06-16 Proposal to improve alternative names in the Chakma block — Bivuti Chakma (L2/19-218)

    • Recommendations to UTC #160 July 2019 on Script Proposals (L2/19-286) (See point 7.)

    • UTC #160 Minutes (L2/19-270) (See D.3 for decision and action items)