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Unicode Status for Kawi

In The Unicode Standard, Kawi script implementation is discussed in Chapter 17 Southeast Asia-II — Indonesia and the Philippines and in UTN 48: Implementing Kawi.

The Kawi script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 15.0. The script is encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
Kawi11F00..11F5F15.0U11F00.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)

  • 2011-03-03 Indonesian and Philippine Scripts and extensions not yet encoded or proposed for encoding in Unicode — Christopher Miller (L2/11-091)

  • 2012-04-25 Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Kawi Script — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N4266, L2/12-125)

  • 2012-05-03 Comment on L2/12-125: Encoding Model for Kawi Script — Naga Ganesan (L2/12-167)

  • 2020-09-30 Preliminary Proposal to encode Kawi in the UCS — Aditya Bayu Perdana, Ilham Nurwansah (L2/20-256)

    • Recommendations to UTC #165 October 2020 on Script Proposals (L2/20-250) (See point 15.)

  • 2020-11-17 Comments on Kawi, L2/20-256 — Iain Sinclair (L2/21-026)

  • 2020-12-06 Repha representation for Kawi — Norbert Lindenberg (L2/20-283)

  • 2020-12-08 Comments on L2/20-284 regarding disunificaton of KAWI VOWEL SIGN AA — M. Mahali Syarifuddin (L2/20-287)

    • Recommendations to UTC #166 January 2021 on Script Proposals (L2/21-016) (See point 18b.)

  • 2020-12-22 Proposal to encode Kawi (revised) — Aditya Bayu Perdana, Ilham Nurwansah (L2/20-284)

    • Recommendations to UTC #166 January 2021 on Script Proposals (L2/21-016) (See point 18a.)

    • UTC #166 Minutes (L2/21-009) (See B.1 for decision and action items)

    • 2021-02-16 Reply to ‘On the Kawi Space Filler and the Names of Punctuation Characters’ — Aditya Bayu Perdana, Norbert Lindenberg (L2/21-048)

  • 2021-07-30 Proposal to Unencode KAWI VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC L — M. Mahali Syarifuddin (L2/21-176)

    • Recommendations to UTC #169 October 2021 on Script Proposals (L2/21-174) (See point 12.)

    • UTC #169 Minutes (L2/21-167) (See B.1 Section 12 for decision and action items)

  • 2021-09-23 Note on Kawi Sign Vocalic L U+11F3C and Possible Cognate of U+1B00 — Aditya Bayu Perdana, Ilham Nurwansah (L2/21-180)

    • Recommendations to UTC #169 October 2021 on Script Proposals (L2/21-174) (See point 12.)

    • UTC #169 Minutes (L2/21-167) (See B.1 Section 12 for decision and action items)

  • 2022-03-05 Review of the code charts of Unicode 15 Alpha (PRI 442) — Eduardo Marín Silva (L2/22-056)

    • Recommendations to UTC #171 April 2022 on Script Proposals (L2/22-068) (See point 19.)

    • UTC #171 Minutes (L2/22-061) (See D.1 SECTION 19 for decision and action items)

  • 2022-03-21 Review of Kawi code chart of Unicode 15 Alpha (PRI 442) — Waṣkiṭa Kinaṇṭi, Rikza F. Sh. (L2/22-093)

    • Recommendations to UTC #171 April 2022 on Script Proposals (L2/22-068) (See point 20.)

    • UTC #171 Minutes (L2/22-061) (See D.1 SECTION 20 for decision and action items)

  • 2022-04-08 Comments on Public Review Issues (Jan 18, 2022 - April 11, 2022) Kawi Line breaks and grapheme clusters— Norbert Lindenberg (PRI442/feedback)

    • Recommendations to UTC #171 April 2022 on Script Proposals (L2/22-068) (See point 28)

    • UTC #171 Minutes (L2/22-061) (See D.1 SECTION 28 for decision and action items)

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

  • 2022-10-15 Proposal to encode KAWI SIGN NUKTA — Febri Muhammad Nasrullah (L2/22-236)

    • Recommendations to UTC #173 November 2022 on Script Proposals (L2/22-248) (See point A 8.)

    • UTC #173 Minutes (L2/22-241) (See D.1.10 for decision and action items)

  • 2022-10-17 Canonical combining class for nukta characters — Norbert Lindenberg (L2/22-250)

    • UTC #173 Minutes (L2/22-241) (See D.1.10 for decision and action items)

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

  • 2024-05-18 Preliminary Proposal to Add Kawi jihwāmūlīya and upadhmānīya — Aditya Bayu Perdana (L2/24-128)

    • Recommendations to UTC #180 (July 2024) on Script Proposals (L2/24-166) (See point B.31.)