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Unicode Status for Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics

In The Unicode Standard, Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics implementation is discussed in Chapter 20: Americas.

The Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics script was first encoded in The Unicode Standard version 3.0. The script is encoded in the following blocks:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics1400..167F3.0U1400.pdf
Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended18B0..18FF5.2U18B0.pdf
Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended-A11AB0..11ABF14.0U11AB0.pdf

Subsequent to version 3.0, the following characters have been added to the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics script:

CharactersUnicode VersionDocumentation
14005.2WG2 N3427/L2/08-132 and WG2 N3533/L2/09-018
1677..167F5.2WG2 N3427/L2/08-132 and WG2 N3533/L2/09-018
18B0..18F55.2WG2 N3427/ L2/08-132, WG2 N3437/L2/08-149, WG2 N3507/L2/08-342 and WG2 N3533/L2/09-018

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:

  • 1996-06-10 Proposed pDAM for Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics — Canadian Standards Association (WG2 N1441 (Unofficial HTML version of a document submitted to WG2))

  • 1997-01-18 Combined PDAM registration and ballot for FPDAM 11: Canadian aboriginal syllabics script — Bruce Paterson (L2/97-005 (not online))

  • 1997-10-08 Canadian Syllabics missing from DAM 11 — Dirk Vermeulen, Michael Everson (WG2 N1655.htm, L2/97-274 (neither online))

  • 2001-08-07 Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics — Bill Jancewicz (L2/01-291)

  • 2008-04-12 Preliminary proposal to encode additional Canadian Syllabics in the UCS — Michael Everson, Chris Harvey (WG2 N3437, L2/08-149)

  • 2008-05-11 Proposal to encode 39 Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics in the UCS — Michael Everson, Chris Harvey (WG2 N3427, L2/08-132)

  • 2008-10-06 Proposal to encode additional Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics in the UCS — Michael Everson, Chris Harvey (WG2 N3507, L2/08-342)

  • 2009-02-24 Proposed Revision for Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended Block — Michael Everson (WG2 N3533, L2/09-018)

  • 2016-05-16 Canadian Syllabics SHA U+1515 Font Support (with images) — Ray Larabie, et al (L2/16-164)

  • 2020-09-30 Proposal to encode 16 additional characters to the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics — Kevin King (L2/20-255)

    • Recommendations to UTC #165 October 2020 on Script Proposals (L2/20-250) (See point 4.)

    • UTC #165 Minutes (L2/20-237) (See B.1 for decision and action items)

  • 2021-04-06 Proposed revisions to the representative characters of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics code charts — Kevin King (L2/21-088)

    • Recommendations to UTC #167 April 2021 on Script Proposals (L2/21-073) (See point 2.)

    • UTC #167 Minutes (L2/21-067) (See B.1 for decision and action items)

  • 2021-07-07 Proposed changes to the representative glyphs of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics code charts — Kevin King (L2/21-141)

    • Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals (L2/21-130) (See point 4.)

    • UTC #168 Minutes (L2/21-123) (See B.1 for decision and action items)