Unicode Status for Limbu
In The Unicode Standard, Limbu script implementation is discussed in Chapter 13: South and Central Asia-II — Other Modern Scripts
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Blocks
Section titled “Blocks”The Limbu script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 4.0. The script is encoded in the following block:
| Blocks | Character Range | Added in Unicode Version | Unicode Chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Limbu | 1900..194F | 4.0 | U1900.pdf |
Characters
Section titled “Characters”Subsequent to version 4.0, the following characters have been added to the script:
| Characters | Unicode Version | Documentation |
|---|---|---|
| 191D..191E | 7.0 | WG2 N3975/L2/11-008 |
Documentation refers to ISO Working Group and Unicode proposals
Proposals and documents
Section titled “Proposals and documents”A number of proposals for its inclusion were submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and WG2:
- 1992-10-30 Kirat (Limbu) — Rick McGowan (Unicode Technical Report #3 R2)
- 1999-07-20 Unicode Technical Report #3: Early Aramaic, Balti, Kirat (Limbu), Manipuri (Meitei), and Tai Lü scripts — Rick McGowan, Michael Everson (WG2 N2042, L2/99-245)
- 2001-03-29 Draft proposal: Unicode coding of the Limbu Script — Boyd Michailovsky (L2/01-137)
- 2001-03-29 Proposal summary form for the Limbu Script — Boyd Michailovsky (L2/01-138)
- 2001-03-29 Printed samples of the Limbu Script — Boyd Michailovsky (L2/01-139)
- 2001-03-29 Proposal to encode Limbu in the BMP — Boyd Michailovsky (WG2 N2339, L2/01-231)
- 2002-02-05 Revised proposal to encode the Limbu script in the UCS — Boyd Michailovsky, Michael Everson (WG2 N2410, L2/02-055)
- 2002-03-25 Comments from Limbu experts on n2339 — Takayuki K. Sato (WG2 N2428-1.doc, L2/02-135)
- 2002-04-09 Limbu Examples — Kumar Limbu (WG2 N2428-3, L2/02-137)
- 2002-04-09 Comments on the “Proposal to encode Limbu in the UCS” — Til Bikram Nembang, Dr. Madhav Prasad Pokharel, Dilendra Kurumbang, Kumar Limbu (WG2 N2428-2, L2/02-136)
- 2003-08-13 Introduction to the Limbu Script — Daniel Kai (L2/03-255)
- 2003-08-13 Lepcha, Limbu, Syloti, Saurashtra, Tai Le and Bugis Proposals — Daniel Kai (L2/03-253)
- 2004-03-09 Indic scripts collation grouping; CTT suggestion — Kent Karlsson (WG2 2716.doc, L2/04-109)
- 2005-02-07 Issues in Representation of Indic Scripts in Unicode (Unicode Conference Presentation) — Om Vikas (L2/05-063)
- 2005-10-21 General category and bidi property for some Indic characters — Asmus Freytag (L2/05-304)
- 2005-10-24 Comments on 5.0 properties, and property consistency, for some Indic characters (introduced before 5.0) — Kent Karlsson (L2/05-316)
- 2011-01-14 Proposal to Encode the Letters GYAN and TRA for Limbu in the UCS — Anshuman Pandey (WG2 N3975, L2/11-008 )
- 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 — Roozbeh Pournader (L2/14-126)
- 2020-04-10 Changing Indic Syllabic Category of Limbu Kehmphreng — Martin Hosken (L2/20-184)
- Recommendations to UTC #164 July 2020 on Script Proposals (L2/20-169) (See point 13.)
- Recommendations to UTC #164 July 2020 on Script Proposals (L2/20-169
- 2024-08-27 On the Indic_Syllabic_Category of vowel carriers — Robin Leroy (L2/24-203)