Unicode Status for Cherokee
In The Unicode Standard, Cherokee syllabary implementation is discussed in Chapter 20: Americas
.
The Cherokee syllabary was first encoded in The Unicode Standard version 3.0. In Unicode 8.0 casing was added to the script. The script is now encoded in the following blocks:
| Blocks | Character Range | Added in Unicode Version | Unicode Chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cherokee syllabary | 13A0..13FF | 3.0 | U13A0 |
| Cherokee Supplement | AB70..ABBF | 8.0 | UAB70 |
Subsequent to version 3.0, the following characters have been added to the script:
| Characters | Unicode Version | Documentation |
|---|---|---|
| 13F5 | 8.0 | WG2 N4487, L2/13-190, WG2 N4537, L2/14-064 |
| 13F8..13FD | 8.0 | WG2 N4537, L2/14-064 |
| AB70..ABBF | 8.0 | WG2 N4537, L2/14-064 |
A number of proposals for its inclusion were submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and WG2:
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1992-10-29 Cherokee Syllabary — Rick McGowan (Unicode Technical Report #3 R2
) -
1995-03-14 Proposal for encoding the Cherokee script — Michael Everson (WG2 N1172
(Unofficial HTML version of a document submitted to WG2)) -
2013-10-24 Proposal for the addition of Cherokee characters to the UCS — Michael Everson, Durbin Feeling (WG2 N4487
, L2/13-190) -
2014-02-25 Revised proposal for the addition of Cherokee characters to the UCS — Michael Everson, Durbin Feeling (WG2 N4537
, L2/14-064) -
2014-07-31 Cherokee casing decision may break identifier syntax — Ken Whistler (L2/14-187
) -
2015-07-30 Phoreus Cherokee (type specimen sheet) — Ken Lunde (L2/15-214
)