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Unicode Status for Javanese

In The Unicode Standard, Javanese script implementation is discussed in Chapter 17: Southeast Asia-II — Indonesia and the Philippines and in UTN 47: Implementing Javanese.

The Javanese script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 5.2. The script is encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
JavaneseA980..A9DF5.2UA980.pdf

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

  • 1992-10-29 Kawi / Javanese / Balinese — Rick McGowan (Unicode Technical Report #3 R2)

  • 1998-02-23 Javanese Proposal: Proposal for the encoding of the Javanese Script — Jeroen Hellingman (L2/98-041)

  • 2006-03-13 Proposal for encoding the Javanese Script in the UCS (A900-A97F) — Teguh Budi Sayoga (L2/06-080)

  • 2007-07-31 Preliminary proposal for encoding the Javanese script in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N3292, L2/07-232)

  • 2007-07-31 Comment on L2/07-232 - Suggestion to encode Javanese in the SMP — Karl Pentzlin (L2/07-237)

  • 2007-08-01 Re L2/07-237 Comment on L2/07-232 Suggestion to encode Javanese in the SMP — Deborah Anderson (L2/07-248)

  • 2007-09-11 Javanese government support for encoding the Javanese script — Michael Everson (WG2 N3329, L2/07-298)

  • 2008-03-06 Proposal for encoding the Javanese script in the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N3319, L2/07-295, L2/08-015)

  • 2009-04-10 Name correction for FPDAM 6: Javanese A9C0 JAVANESE PANGKON — Deborah Anderson (WG2 N3613, L2/09-122)

  • 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)

  • 2015-04-09 Indic Syllabic and Positional Category of U+A9BD JAVANESE CONSONANT SIGN KERET — R.S. Wihananto (PRI#297)

    • Recommendations to UTC #163 April-May 2020 on Script Proposals (L2/20-105) (See point 11.)

    • UTC #163 Minutes (L2/20-102) (See B.1 for decision and action items)

  • 2017-01-21 Indic positional category for Javanese cakra — Norbert Lindenberg (L2/17-038)

    • Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals (L2/17-037) (See point 11.)

    • UTC #150 Minutes (L2/17-016) (See B.14.5 for decision and action items)

  • 2019-01-04 Suspicious identity of U+A9B5 JAVANESE VOWEL SIGN TOLONG — Liang Hai (L2/19-003)

    • Recommendations to UTC #158 January 2019 on Script Proposals (L2/19-047) (See point 16b.)

    • UTC #158 Minutes (L2/19-008) (See C.4 for decision and action items)

  • 2019-01-04 Properties of U+A9BD JAVANESE CONSONANT SIGN KERET — Liang Hai (L2/19-004)

    • Recommendations to UTC #158 January 2019 on Script Proposals (L2/19-047) (See point 16a.)

    • UTC #158 Minutes (L2/19-008) (See B.14.1 for decision and action items)

  • 2019-03-22 Positional category of Javanese pengkal — Norbert Lindenberg, Aditya Bayu Perdana (L2/19-083)

    • Recommendations to UTC #159 April-May 2019 on Script Proposals (L2/19-173) (See point 17.)

    • UTC #159 Minutes (L2/19-122) (See B.13.1 for decision and action items)

  • 2020-06-05 Syllabic category of Balinese Surang, Javanese Layar, and Sundanese Panglayar — Aditya Bayu Perdana, Ilham Nurwansah, Norbert Lindenberg (L2/20-150)

    • Recommendations to UTC #164 July 2020 on Script Proposals (L2/20-169) (See point 19.)

    • UTC #164 Minutes (L2/20-172) (See B.1 for decision and action items)

  • 2022-02-14 Javanese orthographic syllables — Norbert Lindenberg (L2/22-041)

    • Recommendations to UTC #171 April 2022 on Script Proposals (L2/22-068) (See point 9.)

    • UTC #171 Minutes (L2/22-061) (See D.1 SECTION 9 for decision and action items)

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

  • 2023-01-14 Confusables in Balinese, Javanese, and Kawi — Norbert Lindenberg (L2/23-027)