Unicode Status for Grantha
In The Unicode Standard, Grantha script implementation is discussed in Chapter 15: South and Central Asia-IV — Other Historic Scripts
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The Grantha script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 7.0. The script is now encoded in the following block:
| Blocks | Character Range | Added in Unicode Version | Unicode chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grantha | 11300..1137F | 7.0 | U11300 |
Vedic Extensions may be used with the Grantha script as well as many other Indic scripts.
Subsequent to version 7.0, the following characters have been added to the script:
| Characters | Unicode Version | Documentation |
|---|---|---|
| 11300 | 8.0 | WG2 N4432, L2/13-061 |
| 1133B | 11.0 | L2/15-256 |
| 11350 | 8.0 | WG2 N4431, L2/13-062 |
Documentation refers to ISO Working Group and Unicode proposals
A number of proposals for its inclusion have been submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and WG2:
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2005-02-07 Issues in Representation of Indic Scripts in Unicode (Unicode Conference Presentation) — Om Vikas (L2/05-063
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2008-03-02 Criteria for the encoding of script-specific dandas — Unicode and US National Body (WG2 N3457
, L2/08-118) -
2009-05-09 Re: Grantha Proposal — Gihan Dias (L2/09-206
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2009-05-11 Encoding of Grantha Script in the Unicode Standard — Swaran Lata (L2/09-210
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2009-08-01 Proposal to Encode the Grantha Script in the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) of ISO/IEC 10646 — Naga Ganesan (L2/09-141
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2009-08-02 Re: Grantha Proposal — Shriramana Sharma (L2/09-258
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2009-08-06 Comments on L2/09‐141, Proposal to Encode the Grantha Script… — Kent Karlsson (L2/09-277
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2009-08-15 Comments on Mr Ganesan’s Grantha Proposal — Shriramana Sharma (L2/09-316
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2009-09-26 Comments on Kent Karlsson’s document L2/09-277 — Shriramana Sharma (L2/09-324
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2009-10-06 Further clarification on Grantha virama-ligatures — Shriramana Sharma (L2/09-375
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2009-10-09 Letter from Swaran Lata concerning Grantha Proposal — Swaran Lata (L2/09-380
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2009-10-11 Why jihvamuliya and upadhmaniya characters are not proposed for Grantha — Shriramana Sharma (L2/09-373
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2009-10-24 Proposal to encode the Grantha script in Unicode — Shriramana Sharma (L2/09-372
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2009-10-25 Request for encoding 11355 GRANTHA LENGTH MARK — Shriramana Sharma (L2/09-374
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2009-10-28 Proposal to Encode the Grantha Script in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP) of ISO/IEC 10646 (replaces L2/09-141) — Naga Ganesan (L2/09-345
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2009-11-01 Comment on L2/09-372 (Number of Viramas in closely related Malayalam and Grantha scripts) — Naga Ganesan (L2/09-405
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2009-11-01 Request for an annotation for the generic Indic dandas — Shriramana Sharma (L2/09-423
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2010-01-28 Summary and Assessment of Grantha Proposals — Deborah Anderson, Rick McGowan, Ken Whistler (L2/10-053
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2010-02-02 A note on Grantha OM sign (Comment on L2/10-053) — Naga Ganesan (L2/10-062
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2010-02-04 Proposal to encode the Grantha script in the BMP of the UCS — M.D. Kulkarni (L2/10-048
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2010-02-17 Revised Chart and Names List for Grantha based on L2/10-053 — Rick McGowan, Deborah Anderson (L2/10-071
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2010-03-12 Feedback to Dr Anderson’s Grantha Summary dt 2010-Jan-28 — Shriramana Sharma (L2/10-085
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2010-05-03 Proposal to encode Grantha Chillu Marker sign in Unicode/ISO 10646 — Naga Ganesan (L2/10-154
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2010-05-10 Grantha Chillu Marker at U+1134E in Unicode SMP (Comment on Section 8.d, L2/10-167) — Naga Ganesan (L2/10-194
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2010-06-11 Official submission of a request regarding the Grantha Chillu Marker — Shriramana Sharma (L2/10-232
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2010-06-20 Request from scholars of the Grantha user community — Scholars on behalf of the traditional Grantha user community in Tamil Nadu (L2/10-233
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2010-07-09 Proposal to encode Vedic characters for the Grantha script — Shriramana Sharma (L2/10-235
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2010-07-10 Proposal to encode characters for Extended Tamil — Shriramana Sharma (L2/10-256
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2010-07-20 Comments on L2/09-345, 10-062 and 10-154 — Shriramana Sharma (L2/10-267
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2010-07-27 Follow-up #2 to my Grantha proposal L2/09-372 — Shriramana Sharma (L2/10-259
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2010-07-28 Comments on Grantha OM — Vinodh Rajan (L2/10-263
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2010-07-31 Tamil Letters with Numbered Superscripts – Comment on L2/10-256 — Naga Ganesan (L2/10-298
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2010-08-02 Usage Evidence for Grantha OM glyph — Naga Ganesan (L2/10-274
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2010-08-03 Request from scholars of the Grantha user community #2 — Shriramana Sharma (L2/10-283
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2010-08-03 Comments on L2/10-194 — Shriramana Sharma (L2/10-284
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2010-08-04 Comments on Grantha encoding — Krishnamurti Shastri (L2/10-285
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2010-08-04 Comments on L2/10-274 — Shriramana Sharma (L2/10-286
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2010-08-06 Comment on L2/10-285: Handwritten styles in Tamil, Grantha, and English scripts — Naga Ganesan (L2/10-297
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2010-08-09 Proposal for a Grantha Character Name - Ligating Prepausal Virama at U+1134F — Naga Ganesan (L2/10-303
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2010-08-10 Letter regarding Grantha encoding — Swaran Lata (L2/10-314
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2010-08-10 Follow-up to L2/10-267 — Shriramana Sharma (L2/10-328
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2010-08-21 Request to encode 1135D GRANTHA SIGN PLUTA — Shriramana Sharma (WG2 N4136
, L2/10-331) -
2010-08-21 Comments on L2/09-405, L2/10-297, L2/10-298 and L2/10-303 — Shriramana Sharma (L2/10-332
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2010-08-21 Follow-up to L2/09-374 — Shriramana Sharma (L2/10-329
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2010-08-26 Revised Chart and Names List for Grantha (replaces L2/10-071; revised) — Rick McGowan, Deborah Anderson (L2/10-265
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2010-09-06 Request to avoid encoding South Indian abbreviation signs — Shriramana Sharma (L2/10-266
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2010-09-14 Encoding sub-base Grantha vowel signs for Vocalic L and LL — Shriramana Sharma (L2/10-341
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2010-09-17 On the GC of 1134D Grantha Sign Virama — Shriramana Sharma (L2/10-405
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2010-09-30 Naming of Characters in Extended Tamil Block in SMP — INFITT (L2/10-363
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2010-10-04 Response to L2/10-363 from INFITT — Shriramana Sharma (L2/10-380
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2010-10-08 Letter regarding Grantha vowelless consonants — T. Ganesan (L2/10-406
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2010-10-10 Finalizing the Grantha virama model — Shriramana Sharma (L2/10-404
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2010-10-16 Follow-up #2 to Extended Tamil proposal — Shriramana Sharma (L2/10-407
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2010-10-18 Unicode Standard for Grantha Script, Summary of the Meeting Sept 6th, New Delhi — Gov’t of India / Manoj Jain (L2/10-409
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2010-10-18 Letter regarding Grantha virama — Krishnaswamy Nachimuthu (L2/10-414
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2010-10-18 Proposal to encode the Grantha script in Unicode — Gov’t of India / Manoj Jain (L2/10-426
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2010-10-21 Letter regarding Prepausal Virama (Grantha) — Ulrike Niklas (L2/10-424
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2010-10-22 Response to L2/10-414 on the GRANTHA “PREPAUSAL” VIRAMA — Shriramana Sharma (L2/10-423
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2010-10-22 Comments on L2/10-256R and L2/10-363 — Vinodh Rajan (L2/10-425
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2010-10-25 Comment on L2/10-406: Grantha Prepausal Ligated Virama — N. Ganesan (L2/10-430
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2010-10-29 Consonant Clusters that need 3 sequences in Unicode Encoding in Grantha script — N. Ganesan (L2/10-447
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2010-11-01 Feedback on Grantha Unicode Committee meeting minutes - reg. — P. R. Nakkeeran (L2/10-457
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2010-11-01 Response to L2/10-426 and L2/10-447 and any other proposals requesting to add characters to represent Tamil or Tamil Block — Va.Mu.Se. Kaviarasan / INFITT (L2/10-459
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2010-11-06 Letter from Gov’t of Tamil Nadu re Grantha — M. Karunanidhi (L2/10-464
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2010-11-06 Current GOI Proposal to Unicode Technical Committee on the Grantha script Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan (L2/10-472
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2010-11-29 Grantha sub-base vocalic L/LL and Vedic Tone Asterisk Above — Peter Constable (L2/11-351
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2011-01-07 Response to Govt.of India Proposal L2/10-426 — Va.Mu.Se. Kaviarasan (L2/11-002
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2011-01-14 My views on Encoding Grantha in Unicode — E. Annamalai (L2/11-006
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2011-01-18 Press release from Gov’t Tamil Nadu re Grantha — Va.Mu.Se. Kaviarasan (L2/11-010
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2011-01-21 Diacritic Marks for Short e & o Vowels (Dravidian and Vedic) in Devanagari (North India) and Grantha (South India) — Naga Ganesan (L2/11-011
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2011-01-21 Letter from Prof. S. Raju regarding the addition of 5 Dravidian characters to Grantha block in Unicode — Pulavar S. Raju (L2/11-024
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2011-01-25 Views, opinions and suggestions on Proposals submitted on Grantham, an historic INDIC Script into SMP by learned individuals & Institutions — N. D. Logasundaram (L2/11-029
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2011-01-27 Letter to Mark Davis from Gov’t of India — N. Ravi Shanker (L2/11-009
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2011-01-30 Opposition to Unification of Grantham and Tamil Scripts in the Unicode — J. Sundaravelu (L2/11-027
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2011-01-31 Inclusion of Grantha Characters in Tamil writings –Necessity –Regarding — Dr.R.Nagaswamy (L2/11-025
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2011-01-31 INFITT Working Group comments on the Grantha encoding proposals — Mani Manivannan (L2/11-026
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2011-01-31 Position of the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka on the encoding of the Grantha Script — Gihan Dias (L2/11-028
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2011-02-01 Dravidian Letters in Tamil Grantha Script Some Notes in Their History of Use — Naga Ganesan (L2/11-034
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2011-02-01 Grantha Proposals L2/10-426 and L2/10-447 - Request to scotch the move to sneak non-Tamil (Grantha) characters into Unicode Tamil characters. It is in violation of the Fundamental Rights of 100 million Tamils to conserve and protect our language and script. — Albert Fernando (L2/11-048
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2011-02-02 Grantha Compromise Chart — Rick McGowan, Deborah Anderson (L2/11-046
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2011-02-03 An Appeal to the Unicode Tech. Committee — M. Arockiasamy (L2/11-058
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2011-02-06 Inclusion of Tamil Characters in Proposed Grantham Block — K. Uthayasoorian (L2/11-056
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2011-02-06 Comments on Tamil Unicode and Grantham Proposals — B. Eraiyarasan (L2/11-055
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2011-02-07 Requesting the UTC to Reject Proposals to Mix Tamil and Grantha — T. Ramakrishnan (L2/11-060
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2011-02-08 Comments of the Grantha Proposal — Arivoli Muthukumarasamy (L2/11-063
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2011-02-10 Two Outstanding Indic-related Topics from November 2010 UTC — Deborah Anderson (L2/11-073
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2011-02-14 More views, opinions and suggestions as feedback on proposal of encoding Grantham — N. D. Logasundaram (L2/11-075
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2011-02-18 Dravidian letters in Grantha block in Unicode - regarding — Naga Ganesan (L2/11-186
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2011-05-09 Letter to Mark Davis from N. Ravi Shanker, Gov’t of India — N. Ravi Shanker (L2/11-182
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2011-05-10 Letter from Gov’t of India to Mark Davis, May 10, 2011, re Grantha encoding — N. Ravi Shanker (L2/11-251
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2011-05-16 Grantha Compromise Chart (replaces L2/11-046) — Rick McGowan, Deborah Anderson (L2/11-200
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2011-07-22 Proposal to encode the Grantha script in Unicode — Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India (WG2 N4135
, L2/11-284) -
2011-08-04 Comments on UTC document L2/11-186 — S. Palaniappan (L2/11-326
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2011-11-04 Proposed Additions to ISO/IEC 10646 — U.S. National Body (WG2 N4181
, L2/11-330) -
2012-01-12 Letter regarding Grantha encoding — Maravanpulavu K. Sachithananthan (L2/12-054
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2012-01-30 Proposal to add two letters to the Grantha repertoire Michael Everson (WG2 N4198
, L2/12-039) -
2012-01-31 Feedback on Grantha document N4198 L2/12-039 — Shriramana Sharma (WG2 N4217
, L2/12-059) -
2012-04-25 On Grantham encoding in SMP — N. D. Logasundaram (L2/12-126
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2012-04-30 Re Grantham — N. D. Logasundaram (L2/12-149) -
2012-05-08 Brief Comments on UTC register documents (May 2012) on Grantha script encoding — Naga Ganesan (L2/12-151
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2012-05-08 Clarification of Grantham comments — N. D. Logasundaram (L2/12-190
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2012-07-17 Comments on Encoding “Duplicate” Indic Characters — Vinodh Rajan (L2/12-233
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2012-07-25 Comment on archaic Malayalam glyph II encoding & Grantha writing of Dravidian languages — Naga Ganesan (L2/12-273
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2012-11-01 Comments on Proposal L2/12-039, “Proposal to add two letters to the Grantha repertoire” — S. Palaniappan (L2/12-348
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2012-11-01 Letters LLLA and NNNA in Grantha block - Reference documents from experts and users — Naga Ganesan (L2/12-353
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2012-11-05 Letter re Grantha encoding — Santhalingam Chockaiah (L2/12-382
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2012-11-06 Comments on Letters LLLA and NNNA in Grantha block — S. Palaniappan (L2/12-383
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2013-01-28 Grantha, Comment about L2/13-007 — Naga Ganesan (L2/13-030
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2013-03-04 Proposal to encode 1137D Grantha Sign Combining Anusvara Above — Shriramana Sharma (WG2 N4432
, L2/13-061) -
2013-04-10 Proposal to encode 11350 Grantha Om — Shriramana Sharma (WG2 N4431
, L2/13-062) -
2013-04-14 The Sanskrit language must not be cloned inside the digital world — L D Logasundaram (L2/13-065
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2013-04-29 Comment on L2/13-062: Grantha OM in U+11350 code point — Naga Ganesan (L2/13-081
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2013-04-29 Comment on L2/13-065: Grantha characters from other Indic blocks such as Devanagari, Tamil, Bengali are NOT the solution — Naga Ganesan (L2/13-084
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2013-05-10 Letter from Gov’t of India to Lisa Moore re recent documents — Rajendra Kumar (L2/13-124
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2013-09-04 Request to reallocate one character within the Grantha block — Shriramana Sharma (WG2 N4479
, L2/13-179) -
2013-11-10 Finalizing the Grantha virama model — Shriramana Sharma (L2/14-002
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2014-01-20 Plain-text Ligating Virama Representation for Grantha script in the Unicode Standard following the model of Malayalam, Grantha’s closest script — Naga Ganesan (L2/14-020
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2014-04-28 ZWJ Joiner for Chillu Consonants of Grantha Script — Naga Ganesan (L2/14-097
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2014-05-02 Comments on L2/14-097 re using ZWJ for Grantha “chillus” — Shriramana Sharma (L2/14-110
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2014-07-21 Control Characters (Joiners ZWNJ and ZWJ) in the Grantha Visible Virama and Chillu Consonants — Naga Ganesan (L2/14-162
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2014-07-22 Chillu examples — Naga Ganesan (L2/14-164
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2014-07-28 Recommendations to UTC #140 August 2014 on Script Proposals — Deborah Anderson, Ken Whistler, Rick McGowan, Roozbeh Pournader, Laurentiu Iancu (L2/14-170
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2014-08-05 Status report on Script Extensions and Indic properties — Roozbeh Pournader (L2/14-199
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2014-09-11 Unification of Tamil and Grantha numerals — Shriramana Sharma (L2/14-218
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2014-10-14 ZWJ for Grantha pre-pausal half-consonants (chillus) — Naga Ganesan (L2/14-279
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2014-10-29 Handling variation in vowelless consonant forms in Grantha — Shriramana Sharma (L2/14-291
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2015-01-30 Recommendations to UTC #142 February 2015 on Script Proposals — Deborah Anderson, Ken Whistler, Rick McGowan, Roozbeh Pournader, Andrew Glass (L2/15-045
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2015-02-03 Revised Proposal for Plaintext Grantha Chillu Representation (replaces L2/14-162) — Naga Ganesan (L2/15-067
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2015-02-19 Representing the fractions 1/4 and 1/20 in Grantha text — Shriramana Sharma (L2/15-085
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2015-10-26 Proposal to Add Tamil Nukta Character — Martin Hosken (L2/15-256
)- UTC #145 Minutes (L2/15-254) (See second D.2.1 for decision and action items)
- UTC #145 Minutes (L2/15-254
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2016-07-26 Character Name of U+1133B — Naga Ganesan (L2/16-211
)- UTC #148 Minutes (L2/16-203) (See D.13 for decision and action items)
- UTC #148 Minutes (L2/16-203
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2016-08-02 Request to rename 1133B to GRANTHA SIGN ONE-DOT NUKTA — Shriramana Sharma (L2/16-224
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2017-07-28 Letter from Thiru T.K.Ramahandran to Lisa Moore (re Combining Bindu) — Gov’t Tamil Nadu (L2/17-290
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2017-12-08 Changes to ScriptExtensions.txt for Indic characters for Unicode 11.0 — Srinidhi A, Sridatta A (L2/17-424
)- Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals (L2/18-039) (See point 6b section 4.)
- Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals (L2/18-039
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2022-04-13 Specification updates for orthographic syllables and line breaking — Norbert Lindenberg, et al (L2/22-086
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2022-04-15 Line breaking at orthographic syllable boundaries (revised) — Norbert Lindenberg, et al (L2/22-080
)