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Unicode Status for Cham

In The Unicode Standard, Cham script implementation is discussed in Chapter 16: Southeast Asia-I — Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam.

The Cham script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 5.1. The script is encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
ChamAA00..AA5F5.1UAA00

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

  • 1997-04-06 Cham encoding discussion — Michael Everson (WG2 N1578, L2/97-143 (not online))

  • 1997-05-01 Proposal for encoding the Cham script in ISO/IEC 10646 — Michael Everson (WG2 N1559, L2/97-124 (not online))

  • 1999-02-01 Response to Ngo Trung Viet on feedback from Cham experts — Michael Everson (WG2 N1960, L2/99-081 (not online))

  • 2006-08-06 Proposal for encoding the Cham script in the BMP of the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N3120, L2/06-257)

  • 2008-03-02 Criteria for the encoding of script-specific dandas — Unicode and US National Body (WG2 N3457, L2/08-118)

  • 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)

  • 2016-04-25 Proposal to encode seven Cham characters in the BMP of the UCS — Michael Everson, Andrew Cunningham (WG2 N4711, L2/16-082)

    • Recommendations to UTC #147 May 2016 on Script Proposals — Deborah Anderson, Ken Whistler, Roozbeh Pournader, Andrew Glass, Laurentiu Iancu (L2/16-156) (See section 11 for recommendations)

    • UTC #147 Minutes (L2/16-121) (See C.9 for decision and action items)

  • 2022-04-15 Line breaking at orthographic syllable boundaries (revised) — Norbert Lindenberg, et al (L2/22-080)