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Unicode Status for Kharoshthi

In The Unicode Standard, Kharoshthi script implementation is discussed in Chapter 14: South and Central Asia-III — Ancient Scripts.

The Kharoshthi script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 4.1. The script is encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
Kharoshthi10A00..10A5F4.1U10A00

Subsequent to version 4.1, the following characters have been added to Kharoshthi:

CharactersUnicode VersionDocumentation
10A34..10A3511.0L2/17-012
10A4811.0L2/17-012

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:

  • 2002-09-19 Proposal to Encode Kharoṣṭhī in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646 — Andrew Glass, Stefan Baums, Richard Salomon (WG2 N2524, L2/02-203)

  • 2002-10-08 Proposal to add one combining diacritic to the UCS — Andrew Glass, Stefan Baums, Richard Salomon (WG2 N2630, L2/02-364)

  • 2002-11-20 Supplementary Information to Accompany L2/02-203R2, Proposal to Encode Kharoshthi — Rick McGowan (L2/02-424)

  • 2003-09-18 Proposal to Encode Kharoṣṭhī in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646 — Andrew Glass, Stefan Baums, Richard Salomon (WG2 N2732, L2/03-314)

  • 2012-11-03 Sorting all RTL scripts together — Roozbeh Pournader (L2/12-377)

  • 2017-01-17 Additional Characters for Kharoṣṭhī Script — Andrew Glass, Stefan Baums (L2/17-012)

    • Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals (L2/17-037) (See point 8.)

    • UTC #150 Minutes (L2/17-016) (See C.2.1 for decision and action items)

  • 2017-11-26 On Indic Syllabic Category of KHAROSHTHI VIRAMA — Srinidhi A, Sridatta A (L2/17-416)

    • Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals (L2/18-039) (See point 11.)

    • UTC #154 Minutes (L2/18-007) (See B.14.1 for decision and action items)

  • 2020-01-06 Proposal to synchronize two glyphs in the Core Specification — Marcel Schneider (L2/20-011)

    • Recommendations to UTC #162 January 2020 on Script Proposals (L2/20-046) (See point 13a.)

    • UTC #162 Minutes (L2/20-015) (See B.10.17.1.6 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)