Unicode Status for Kirat Rai

In The Unicode Standard, Kirat Rai Script implementation is discussed in Chapter 13 South and Central Asia-II — Other Modern Scripts.

Blocks

The Kirat Rai script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 16.0. The script is now encoded in the following block:

Blocks	Character Range	Added in Unicode Version	Unicode chart
Kirat Rai	16D40..16D7F	16.0	U16D40.pdf

Characters

Since encoding of the script, no new characters have been added.

Proposals and documents

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

• 2011-05-01 Introducing the Kirat Rai Script — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N4037, L2/11-145)
• 2012-10-08 Proposal to Encode Nepal Himalayish Scripts in ISO/IEC 10646 — Pat Hall (WG2 N4347, L2/12-365)
  • Review of Indic‐related documents and Recommendations to the UTC (L2/12-378) (See point II.)
  • UTC #133 Minutes (L2/12-343) (See D.10.1 for decision and action items)
• 2021-07-16 Preliminary document towards advancing the Kirat Rai script — Lorna Evans, Steve Smith (L2/21-132)
  • Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals (L2/21-130) (See point 11.)
  • UTC #168 Minutes (L2/21-123) (See B.1 for decision and action items)
• 2022-04-20 Proposal to Encode Kirat Rai script in the Universal Character Set — Biswajit Mandal, Lorna Evans (L2/22-043)
  • Recommendations to UTC #171 April 2022 on Script Proposals (L2/22-068) (See point 6.)
  • UTC #171 Minutes (L2/22-061) (See D.1 SECTION 6 for decision and action items)
  • Recommendations to UTC #178 January 2024 on Script Proposals (L2/24-013) (See point A.IV.5.)
  • UTC #178 Minutes (L2/24-006) (See D.1 Section 5 for decision and action items)